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March 2019

March 29, 2019

Souls, Transmigration, Gender Theory, and Some Early Roots of Gnostic Ideas

The idea that we are not our bodies, but the most important part of us...

March 27, 2019

Adultery and a Story of Jesus Writing on the Ground

When scribes and Pharisees brought to Jesus a woman “caught in the very act of...

March 25, 2019

Glutton and Drunkard or how the Least and the Greatest Stack Up

Eating seems to have been a rather large part of Jesus’ ministry, and many criticized him for...

March 22, 2019

John the Baptist Mentors Jesus until they Part Ways

Stories of Jesus, from Temptation to Cross From John, the last of the Gospel writers,...

March 20, 2019

David Hogg in Minneapolis: Work Together on Gun Violence

Parkland shooting survivor on running for office: If that’s what it takes… Applause greeted David...

March 18, 2019

The Temptation in the Desert: Jesus Won’t be the Hero

Stories of Jesus, from Temptation to Cross Matthew’s and Luke’s Gospels give us an overture...

March 15, 2019

Blackface and History: How I Learned about the Black Experience

Biblical Faith, ‘About Real Historical Events’ The connection between blackface and Bible history may not seem...

March 13, 2019

What about the Traditional Angels, and What’s the Point of Angels, Anyway?

In several posts I have presented a picture of angels and devils that seems far...

March 11, 2019

Cosmos and History: Connecting the Angels

Thinking about the “things visible and invisible” of the Nicene Creed has resulted in several...

March 08, 2019

Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary with Scripture

Many questions occur as I pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary: Why did Jesus...

March 06, 2019

Angels of the Cosmos or, Are We Alone in the Universe?

Scientists are hard at work investigating the question, Is there life on other planets. They...

March 04, 2019

The Powers that Be: Walter Wink and the Angels in the New Testament

Walter Wink, a Methodist theologian and Bible scholar, has helped modern minds appreciate the New...

March 01, 2019

Church Bells Announcing a God who is Not Tame

Reminiscing theologically about bells because the parish of my childhood decided to fix the bells...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Where are all the angels? – One God, One Story, One World

The highly symbolic angels of Church teaching and lore give us a clue to the...

February 25, 2019

Freedom Fighter Hamer Wrestles with Spiritual Wickedness in High Places

Angels and devils don’t usually figure in our calculations about how to solve our problems....

February 22, 2019

Minnesota Catholics at the Capitol Pursue Broad Pro-Life

‘As stewards of God’s...

February 20, 2019

Disenchantment and Dominion: Christians, Science, Worldviews

This post is an introduction to a series about angels, and it says approximately nothing...

February 18, 2019

The Creed Takes on Gnosticism, Ancient and Modern

God Made All Things, Visible and Invisible – and the Visible Might be the Hard...

February 15, 2019

Artificial Self-consciousness: Does My Robot Know that it Knows?

Reading a recent Patheos post by Russell Saltzman on artificial intelligence got me thinking. I’d...

February 13, 2019

Two Worldviews We Inherit, One Task Before Us

From the Jews we inherit their one God of History and the accompanying worldview of...

February 11, 2019

How Monotheism Arose with the Jews’ God of history

The story the Bible tells is a story of monotheism from beginning to end. But...

February 08, 2019

Shrinking Glaciers and SOTU’s Great Omission: The Church has Expertise to Respond

In what ways and how much should the Church should get involved in politics? Presumably the sanctity of life is...

February 05, 2019

What the Jews Gave Us – The Story of a World Going Somewhere

Among my crowd of acquaintances and friends are some Pagans. Present-day Pagans believe in a...

February 03, 2019

One God, Part 1: The Worldview behind the Many Gods of Paganism

The fourth word in the Nicene Creed is “one.” It distinguishes Jewish and Christian belief...

February 01, 2019

Enter into Life Blind, Crippled, and Maimed: Jesus Teaches Something New

A priest in Madison, Wisconsin, got a laugh with the opening lines of his homily. He...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

Inclusive Language: Its Place in Church and in Personal Piety

Inclusive language is an important, but puzzling, theme in the Church's life. I was at...

January 28, 2019

God as Mother: Thinking with the Bible and the Church

There’s no question: The images the Bible uses for God are overwhelmingly male. God is...

January 25, 2019

Praying the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary with Scripture

Before Pope Saint John Paul II added the Luminous Mysteries to the traditional Joyful, Sorrowful,...

January 23, 2019

Credo, I Believe in … the Father (Comma)

The first thing we say about God in the Creed is that God is Father....

January 21, 2019

‘The Weakness of God is Stronger Than … Strength’

St. Paul wrote: “The weakness of God is stronger than human strength.” (1 Cor 1:25)...

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