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August 2021

August 28, 2021

Understanding Apocalypse & Its Creatures

Instead of looking into the future or biblical past, understanding Apocalypse lies in knowing the...

August 23, 2021

Overrated Romans

Paul's Letter to the Romans is the most overrated document in the Bible. Overrated, that's...

August 18, 2021

Marian Hegemony

Much of the titles and supposed behavior attributed to Mary can be explained by way...

August 15, 2021

Mediterranean Mary

For as long as we've known her, Mediterranean Mary has been used to service cultural...

August 15, 2021

Assumptions about the Assumption

Assumptions make an ass out of you and me, Catholics. Someone asked me, "Did the...

August 14, 2021

Word of God—What Does That Mean?

Word of God, the expression, rolls off the tongue for Christians—but what does it even...

August 11, 2021

Johannine Anti-language

You can't really understand the Gospel of John without getting Johannine anti-language. In light of last...

August 07, 2021

Anti-language Gospel of John

Anti-language fills the Gospel of John, and its author belonged to an antisociety, not a...

August 07, 2021

Eating Flesh and Drinking Blood is Anti-Language

Let's break down what eating flesh and drinking blood would have meant to first-century Israelites....

August 06, 2021

Flesh and Blood

This August, Sunday Gospels swim in “John.” The Gospel reading for this Sunday is John 6:41-51....

August 03, 2021

Finding the Real Deal Jesus

Finding the real Jesus means dropping old mental idols and getting informed by the social...

July 2021

July 28, 2021

Progressive Jesus Is Also Fake

Jesus was not a progressive. As my readers explored last week, U.S. Christians commit many identity...

July 25, 2021

Sharing? Miracle? Both? Nope!—Multiplying Loaves and Fish

Sorry to U.S. Bible readers, but Jesus’ wonder of multiplying loaves and fish was neither...

July 23, 2021

Alien Jesus is Counterfeit

Alien to humanity depictions make Jesus unreal and provide yet another congenial identity theft. In...

July 20, 2021

Great One Jesus or Reality?

Great One Jesus is another culturally congenial identity theft committed by American Christians. "Make America...

July 19, 2021

Intellectual Sage or Real Jesus?

Intellectual Sage Jesus is yet another culturally congenial identity theft American Christians. Last time we...

July 18, 2021

American Counterfeit Jesus

American Christians prefer a fake Jesus congenial to our values in place of the real...

July 10, 2021

Inspiration is Messy Indeed

Inspiration is messy and very human precisely because it is divine. This blog is named...

July 10, 2021

Authority & Healing: Mark 6:7-13

Authority over demons figures heavily in this Sunday's Gospel, but what is this really about?...

July 03, 2021

Upset? Too Bad!

If you are upset by what I blog, that’s probably a good thing. Upset? Some people...

July 02, 2021

Biblical Languages Useful?

Biblical languages aren’t much help in understanding Scripture without understanding the cultural background. How useful...

June 2021

June 17, 2021

Don’t Be Stupid, American Catholics

If you truly love your country, don’t be stupid, American Catholics. "Are you proud to...

June 16, 2021

Loki: Omniscient Timekeeper & Free Will

Marvel’s new show LOKI opens a theological box into mysteries of God’s omniscience and human...

June 07, 2021

Last Supper Wasn’t Passover

It turns out that the Last Supper wasn’t Passover, unlike what some Gospels interpret. Yesterday...

May 2021

May 29, 2021

Horrible Homilies for Two Sundays

Horrible homilies proliferate, but never so much as on Trinity Sunday and Corpus Christi. Yes,...

May 27, 2021

Sky-Vault Man & Facebook Inquisition

Sky-Vault is just one of many strange expressions that will get you tried for heresy...

May 22, 2021

Words Are Limited Or Ant-Theology

Theological words are limited by many things, including culture. Words are great and needed for...

May 21, 2021

Gospel: An Evolving Concept

How did the gospel evolve from Jesus to us? The gospel is the “good news”...

May 15, 2021

Arrogance Signifies

Our arrogance signifies handsomely just how ardently we reject the Holy Spirit. In “Acts,” the...

May 12, 2021

Genocide Is Okay For Palestine?

Genocide and Christian stupidity mix well. It’s been three more nights of hell for Palestinians....