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2021-07-04T02:58:24-05:00

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Just Because We State Facts Does Not Mean We Are Promoting The Truth

Last updated on: July 4, 2021 at 2:58 am By Henry Karlson

Everything good and true is good and true in its proper context. Outside of that context, it can be and often is turned against the good and used to promote falsehoods. This is how facts are weaponized; when they are taken out of that context, they can be used for evil and used to promote falsehoods. This can be seen in the way facts often are weaponized, causing scandal by the way they are misapplied. Likewise, when asked questions, there... Read more

2021-07-02T05:07:30-05:00

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Extreme Heat, Fires And Death: Climate Change Is With Us

Last updated on: July 2, 2021 at 5:07 am By Henry Karlson

Another summer has just begun in North America, Once again, we find ourselves experiencing extreme weather conditions thanks to climate change. Extreme heart, wildfires, and drought threatens the United States and Canada. Every year, we things are getting worse. The effects of . climate change is before us as it lays waste our cities and kills off our people. The land itself is being affected, as Alaska experiences icequakes, earthquakes which are the result of all the melting ice: As... Read more

2021-06-30T02:56:43-05:00

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Hunger and Thirst For Justice

Last updated on: June 30, 2021 at 2:56 am By Henry Karlson

Justice is important. We must desire it. We must yearn it so much, we hunger for it. And just as we cannot live without food, so we find we cannot properly live and be satisfied without justice. So long as we hunger for it, so long as we thirst for it, we find ourselves working for it. We will do what needs to be done to attain it. But, as St. Jerome remarked, once we begin our pursuit for justice,... Read more

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2021-06-29T02:59:42-05:00

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Peter and Paul: Made Great By Their Differences

Last updated on: June 29, 2021 at 2:59 am By Henry Karlson

Peter and Paul started their journey in radically different states of life, but they would end their journey together, understanding and supporting each other as they died serving Christ. Peter was a fisherman, and as a fisherman, he might have been given an elementary level of education (as it was not unknown at the time). Paul, on the other hand, was a religious scholar; his life was, in many respects, a life of study, and he studied not only the... Read more

2021-06-27T03:05:37-05:00

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The Same God

Last updated on: June 27, 2021 at 3:05 am By Henry Karlson

Every so often, someone asks, “Do Christians, Muslims, and Jews worship the same God”? If we pay attention, we will find many of them do this, not as an inquiry, but rather as a rhetorical question. They think the answer is obviously no. They state that the Christian belief in the Trinity means Christians do not share God in common with Muslims or Jews because neither Muslims nor Jews accept the teaching of the Trinity. Likewise, because Christians believe in... Read more

2021-06-24T05:56:09-05:00

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Faith, Hope, and Knowledge

Last updated on: June 24, 2021 at 5:56 am By Henry Karlson

God desires that everyone should be saved (cf. 1 Tim. 2:4). Balthasar suggests this is one of the many reasons why we can and should hope that all will be saved even if such hope transcends our knowledge. In and though the incarnation, in and through the death and resurrection of Jesus. God works to bring to fruition that desire. The taint of sin is removed from creation so that it can be handed over to the Father. All of... Read more

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2021-06-23T02:58:16-05:00

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We Must Not Let Ourselves Be Controlled By Anger

Last updated on: June 23, 2021 at 2:58 am By Henry Karlson

Anger often gets the best of us, making us act rashly, without thinking about what we are doing. It should not be surprising that, as a result of our anger, we often end up hurting ourselves more than anyone else. This is not to say we should never get angry, nor that anger can never be put to good use. There are times when anger is justified and what is done out of such anger, if it is also done... Read more

Sayings of the Desert Fathers

2021-06-21T02:59:54-05:00

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The Sheep And The Good Shepherd

Last updated on: June 21, 2021 at 2:59 am By Henry Karlson

One of the more interesting and perhaps one of the most important titles Jesus uses for himself is that of the Good Shepherd (cf. Jn. 10:11). His audience would have understood that Jesus took on a title which tradition had given to God. The Psalms established the relationship between us and God as that of sheep with a shepherd, so that when we go astray, God would guide and direct us to safety: “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall... Read more

2021-06-20T04:34:31-05:00

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Transcendent Truth, Human Speech

Last updated on: June 20, 2021 at 4:34 am By Henry Karlson

Theology, no matter how sophisticated it is, no matter how transcendent the thinking behind it is, remains written by us, conforming to our limited human capacity to engage the absolute truth. What we are able to comprehend is finite; what lays beyond our comprehension is infinite. While we can apprehend the truth, we do so in a limited fashion; what we declare can only be relative representations and pointers to the absolute truth. Paul understood this. He knew that he... Read more

2021-06-18T05:22:12-05:00

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Biden And The Death Penalty

Last updated on: June 18, 2021 at 5:22 am By Henry Karlson

President Biden opposes the death penalty. But he doesn’t want to act unilaterally, like a dictator, that is, he doesn’t want to act like Trump. This is why he hasn’t written an executive order putting an end to federal executions; he thinks it would be better if Congress passed laws which would put an end to federal executions. That way, it would be much more difficult for some future president to do what Trump and his Attorney General did, not... Read more

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