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2024-09-27T02:17:19-05:00

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Unity In Diversity

Last updated on: September 27, 2024 at 2:17 am By Henry Karlson

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Unity in diversity is important to the Christian faith. Each person should be given the freedom to express and develop themselves, that is, to engage grace in their own unique fashion. This freedom, therefore, will create a great diversity, as the way people develop themselves will differ from each other. Nonetheless, they should be reminded that that they are not islands all unto themselves. No one can and will be independent from everyone else. Persons, by their nature, are interdependent... Read more

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2024-09-25T02:34:39-05:00

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PRS* XIX Prophets Of Doom

Last updated on: September 25, 2024 at 2:34 am By Henry Karlson

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When I was young, long before I became a Catholic, or even before I considered becoming a Catholic a possibility, I read Hal Lindsey’s The Late, Great Planet Earth, and was fascinated with the idea that we were living at the end times. Like many others, I was thrilled to hear that Jesus was going to come again during my lifetime. Not only was it a very exciting thing to hear, it made me feel special without actually having to... Read more

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2024-09-23T05:21:35-05:00

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God’s Work With All Major Religious Traditions

Last updated on: September 23, 2024 at 5:21 am By Henry Karlson

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Early in Christian history, especially during the time before Constantine, Christians often engaged and recognized truths found in various pagan religions, their prophets, and the philosophers who emerged from those religious traditions (the division of philosophy and theology into two separate and distinct disciplines is a much later development). We find this especially established by various apologists (like St. Justin Martyr and Eusebius), who pointed out how God could be said to have inspired elements from these other religious traditions... Read more

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2024-09-22T02:22:26-05:00

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We Should Learn From The Story Of Jonah

Last updated on: September 22, 2024 at 2:22 am By Henry Karlson

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The prophet Jonah famously misunderstood his prophetic mission; he understood God’s pathos against social unjust and its implications for the people of Nineveh, which led him to point out the doom they faced as a result of their injustices. However, he thought that there was nothing they could do to avert their fate, that they were soon going to be destroyed (like Sodom and Gomorrah). He was right about what would happen if they did not change their ways, but... Read more

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2024-09-20T02:46:11-05:00

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Death Can Be Both An Evil And A Good

Last updated on: September 20, 2024 at 2:46 am By Henry Karlson

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Sadly, many Christians like to cut themselves completely off from everyone and everything they believe to be impure, such as unbelievers, looking down upon them, because such Christians believe others have already been judged and condemned by God, and so should be condemned by them as well. They want to keep to themselves away from what they believe is the evil of the world, only to prove that they are the ones who have lost their way, and in doing... Read more

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2024-09-19T06:38:02-05:00

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Equals In Christ

Last updated on: September 19, 2024 at 6:38 am By Henry Karlson

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We are told to love our neighbor as ourselves, which means, every neighbor is to be loved and treated the same way as we love and treat ourselves. How can this be if we think we can love others unequally, saying some people deserve more love than others? We are to love everyone equally, but this does not mean everyone will be loved in the exact same way. Equality allows for differences, but of course, we must make certain that... Read more

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2024-09-17T03:02:34-05:00

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PRS* XVIII Migrants And Refugees

Last updated on: September 17, 2024 at 3:02 am By Henry Karlson

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Years ago, I worked with a refugee community in Nashville, TN. Most of the refugees were Kurds, but, I remember that at least one of the families I worked with was Haitian. Christians were involved with bringing the refugees into the United States, and they were involved with helping them, making sure they got work, a place to live, food, and anything else they needed. The children adapted to the situation quicker than the adults, as they found it far... Read more

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2024-09-15T02:38:02-05:00

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God Is Not An Agent Of Sin

Last updated on: September 15, 2024 at 2:38 am By Henry Karlson

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When Christ shows us love and mercy, doing so despite our many sins, we should not think that means he approves our sin, and therefore think we can continue sinning without restraint. Rather, his love and mercy towards us proves the opposite, for they are given to us to help transform us, to lead us away from sin. It is important to understand how he does this: he doesn’t confront us with hostility, trying to shame us because of our... Read more

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2024-09-12T03:23:23-05:00

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Love All, Including Ourselves

Last updated on: September 12, 2024 at 3:23 am By Henry Karlson

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We are called to love our neighbors as ourselves, which means, we are to love ourselves. “ Let us,” St. Caesarius of Arles wrote, “possess such great charity, brethren, that we can love all men with our whole hearts. If you love all mankind as yourself, there will not remain a door whereby sin can enter into you.”[1] We are not to be selfish, nor are we to be prideful, thinking ourselves to be greater than all (or most) others. We... Read more

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2024-09-11T02:35:11-05:00

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PRS* XVII Dualism And Politics

Last updated on: September 11, 2024 at 2:35 am By Henry Karlson

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One of the most common, and also, insidious ideological errors which pervades politics is the notion that evil exists in and of itself, that it serves as its own principle, being self-subsistent. Once this notion is accepted, that someone or something which is deemed as absolutely evil, having no good in them, it is easy to be led to believe that such evil must be completely annihilated. History consistently shows us where this line of thought leads: people become agitated... Read more

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