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June 2020

June 04, 2020
Donald Trump and his American Christian cult followers continue a long and horrid tradition of...
June 01, 2020
The following are six tips to make us Catholics into better Bible readers. Tips at...

May 2020

May 31, 2020
Christ truly is risen, and human beings can really experience his transforming Spirit, even Americans. People...
May 29, 2020
Is the Pregnant Sky Woman of Revelation 12 really Mary, the Mother of Jesus? Pregnant...
May 28, 2020
Encountering Jesus risen and alive can be both an experience with someone very real and...
May 26, 2020
Hallucination and psychosis, used as attempts to explain away Resurrection appearances, fails. Hallucination, aberration in...
May 25, 2020
The Gospels are extremely different documents, in many ways remote when compared to what American...
May 23, 2020
The Mother of Jesus becomes a powerful symbol for the Johannine community that wrote the...
May 22, 2020
Miraculous doings of Jesus, such as his walking on the Sea, can be better understood...
May 21, 2020
Ascension of the Risen Jesus into the Realm of God is just one of many...
May 20, 2020
Miracle, meaning an overriding of physical laws governing the universe, is a nice post-Enlightenment word...
May 19, 2020
The Sea Jesus walked on is a great body of water to us, but to...
May 18, 2020
Walking on the sea is a mighty deed of Jesus recorded in both the Synoptic...
May 16, 2020
More contradictions and disagreements exist within the Gospels that Catholics and other Christians should not...
May 13, 2020
Luke expands the role of Mary positively, setting the stage for later Mariological development. Luke...
May 12, 2020
Visionary and culture together interpret what God reveals in altered states of consciousness. Visionary—in the...
May 11, 2020
Matthew follows Mark, but slightly improves his overwhelmingly negative picture of Jesus’ mother. Matthew makes...
May 11, 2020
Techniques exist that can tweak the human nervous system so as to induce trance and...
May 10, 2020
“Mark,” the earliest Gospel, does not present a flattering picture of Jesus’ biological family and...
May 10, 2020
Seeing God was something experienced regularly and routinely by the community that produced “John’s Gospel”...
May 09, 2020
Mary, the Mother of God, will be explored rigorously by Messy Inspirations throughout the month...
May 08, 2020
Death of Jesus was right and necessary for salvation says one Gospel tradition, in disagreement...
May 03, 2020
Sheep in the Gospels are the care of male shepherds, and are a most misunderstood...
May 01, 2020
ASC Experiences fill the Bible but are described in ways alien to Western understanding. ASC—the...

April 2020

April 28, 2020
Appearances of Jesus risen and alive—like in the Emmaus story—vary among the Gospels, but insights...
April 24, 2020
Disinfectant to the lungs from "Dr. POTUS" Trump or authentic hope?—the choice is yours! Inject...
April 22, 2020
Birth from God is what the Johannine Jesus offers, something hopelessly misunderstood by Nicodemus. Birth...
April 21, 2020
Nicodemus and Jesus converse in Gospel readings all this second Easter week about spiritual matters...
April 20, 2020
Mourning the dead was an important and lengthy process for first century Israelites, a process...
April 19, 2020
Thomas, the disciple associated with doubt and incredulity, is the featured character in the original...
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