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July 2021

July 11, 2021

Resurrection: For the Apostles, It Took a While to Sink In

With the concepts of altered states of consciousness and conversion, I argue for the truthfulness...

April 2019

April 19, 2019

CRUCIFY HIM! — What the Jews Did or Didn’t Do on Good Friday

On Good Friday I stood with the congregation in church playing my part in the...

April 15, 2019

Faith that can Move Mountains … or Not

It’s Tuesday after the first “Palm Sunday,” that is, after the day Jesus paraded into Jerusalem on a donkey....

April 10, 2019

The Misunderstood Messiah: Jesus’ Friends Don’t Get It

Mark relates several stories where Jesus is apparently successful, but the success is only apparent....

April 08, 2019

Unsuccessful Prophet: Jesus Fails to Win His Own

As one who “came to do God’s will," Jesus succeeded wonderfully. But people knew Jesus...

April 04, 2019

The Beatitudes: Blessed are We Poor

It was in the middle of a plain, or was it on a mountain? It...

April 01, 2019

The Unbrokered Kingdom and Jesus’ Wandering Ways

Looking at Jesus from a distance, an observer would notice one thing especially: he didn’t...

March 2019

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 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...

February 2019

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 16, 2019

Miracles and the Ways of God

Should Jesus have worked more miracles than he did? The atheist says, of course he should have....

January 14, 2019

Power to the Powerless: Miracles and the Way of the World

The miracle stories in the Bible include legends and some amazing deeds of power that Jesus...

January 09, 2019

Metaphors and Transcendence: Miracles and God’s relation to the world

In my daily prayers I ask God for favors: Help this one recover from surgery....

January 07, 2019

Miracle Stories, Science, and Jesus’ Humanity

Science does not easily accept as real an event that breaks the laws of nature....

January 02, 2019

Bible Criticism and Jesus, the Miracle Worker

Jesus fully human is more central to Christian belief than Jesus the miracle worker. We have...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Stories of Jesus, Intro to Part Two–Miracles, and Contents for the Series

The “Stories of Jesus" series continues with Part Two, the Miracles. This post looks briefly...

December 12, 2018

The Impossible Becoming Possible and Stories of the Christ Child

Recently the category of the impossible has become a theme for some theologians. If there’s...

December 10, 2018

The Story of the Magi and Biblical Historical Criticism

Christmas carols tell the story of Jesus that I first loved. Singing about manger, angels,...

December 05, 2018

Infancy Stories in Matthew and Luke: Credible History?

The infancy stories that we find in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke pose two...

December 03, 2018

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Christianity finds ultimate meaning in a snippet of history with Jesus of Nazareth at its...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

History and the Historical Jesus

My proposal in this series on the Jesus of history and the character of God...

November 26, 2018

Getting Acquainted with the Historical Jesus and Getting to Know about God

On an intellectual level, God is marvelously hard to know. On the same level New...

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