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April 2020

April 17, 2020
Health conditions of first century Galilean peasants, atrocious, contrasts sharply with the robust figure presented...
April 15, 2020
Magdalene, as presented in “John,” belongs to the highest status as the one officially commissioned...
April 13, 2020
Resurrection, the center of and defining mystery to us Easter People, is the beginning and...
April 10, 2020
Hero of Good Friday, Jesus and his sufferings are presented according to cultural values that...
April 08, 2020
Judas, the infamous betrayer of Jesus, is presented differently in the Gospels and not in...
April 05, 2020
Resurrection rather than the Cross is Ground Zero for Christianity, and how the Passion Story...
April 03, 2020
Paternal lineage is the chief way how Israelite males derived their honor-rating, but what happens...
April 01, 2020
Raising Lazarus from the dead points to something crucial and way beyond the salvation of...

March 2020

March 29, 2020
Lazarus and his rescue from death gives Gospel readers a chance to reflect on the...
March 27, 2020
Hierarchy exists among the great solar system of Christian truths, and in ecumenical dialogue, Catholics...
March 24, 2020
Royal son healed or centurion’s slave?—it is very important to recognize healing in the Bible...
March 22, 2020
Blindness in the man born blind in this Sunday’s Gospel speaks to a people who...
March 21, 2020
Wellness is more than staying healthy and far more important at beating the Coronavirus pandemic....
March 19, 2020
Joseph, saint and servant, can be known better by 21st century Christians, but not without...
March 17, 2020
Deaths at 2.2 Million (a possibility) is a Grim St. Patrick's Day reminder for being...
March 16, 2020
Pandemic of coronavirus can be slowed and its damage lessened by not going to Mass....
March 15, 2020
Samaritan Woman at the Well is a character from a shocking story of jarring irregularities...
March 11, 2020
COVID-19 threatens U.S. parishes, but liturgically-obsessive personalities put lives at risk in favor of their...
March 09, 2020
Transfiguration of Jesus is but one of five major Altered States of Consciousness experiences in...
March 07, 2020
Meaning, whether Biblical or extra-biblical, doesn’t derive from lexica and dictionaries, but from social systems....
March 05, 2020
Personal and individual are terms relating to our American lives that show us why U.S....
March 03, 2020
Trump wins another term or the likelihood of Sanders and Warren joining forces—all this shows...

February 2020

February 28, 2020
Temptation!—Satan faces off against Jesus in a battle often poorly understood by 21st century Western...
February 25, 2020
Bransfield and Vanier show us deep problems in how we enable our Catholic leaders and...
February 24, 2020
Popes and Peter relate, as do Apostles and Bishops—but never in oversimplified ways. Popes are...
February 22, 2020
Hero and living saint?—no, just a fellow dying inmate in the mental asylum that is...
February 20, 2020
Canon or canon within the Canon?—Why the difference between Mark 8 and Matthew 16 matters!...
February 17, 2020
Affirm! Deny! and Grow! How does a sophisticated articulation of faith happen and relate to...
February 16, 2020
Righteousness is the topic of the Matthean Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount,” and in this...
February 14, 2020
Married or not?—how does Jesus relate to priestly celibacy and to Mary Magdalene? Married clergy...
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