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August 2020

August 14, 2020

Assumption of Mary: Mediterranean Maid & Mother

The Assumption of Mary offers us a challenge—either see her with new eyes or continue...

August 14, 2020

Prophets Edited in Sunday Readings

Prophets like Elijah get their ugly parts redacted in Mass readings. The Prophets can be...

August 13, 2020

Romans 9—11: Challenges for American Christians

Romans 9—11 offers challenges to American Christian individualistic complacency. This past Sunday, we read from...

August 09, 2020

Why You Don’t Understand Jesus’ Sea-Walking

Why you don’t understand Jesus’ Sea-walking is because you are reading Mediterranean Gospels strained through...

August 07, 2020

Blind Spots Ruin Christianity

Our blind spots render Christianity useless to help and heal the Dark Age we have...

August 04, 2020

Trump and 666—Any Connections?

Trump and 666 is a marriage made in hell, or in the popular imaginations of...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

More Important than Belief in the Real Presence?

More important than belief in the real presence is knowing who is really present. Sometimes...

July 30, 2020

What Do Babylon & the Sea Beast of Apocalypse Really Mean?

Babylon, the Sea Beast, 666, and everything else in the book of Revelation is not...

July 28, 2020

The Beast in Revelation: What and Who?

The Beast in Revelation 13:1-18 wasn't Emperor Nero, but rather a sea monster constellation. Who...

July 25, 2020

Apocalypse & 666: What Does this Mean?

Apocalypse, or the book of Revelation, generates much ignorance and confusion, not the least of...

July 22, 2020

Results for the Quiz on Jesus, Paul, & Gospels

Results from our recent quiz on Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels may surprise and challenge...

July 19, 2020

That Centurion Wasn’t Necessarily Gentile!

The centurion of Matthew 8:15-13 does not prove “Matthew” or Jesus gave Good News to...

July 19, 2020

Why “Matthew” Wouldn’t Care about You.

Matthew, his Gospel, and Jesus within it, only had Israelite concerns and zero use for...

July 18, 2020

Quiz on Jesus, Paul, & the Gospels: How Much Do We Really Know?

Quiz yourself on just how well you understand Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Spurious familiarity...

July 13, 2020

Images or Idols? Paul & 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Images and their shadow-power, not worshiping false gods, is what Paul is addressing in 1...

July 13, 2020

Fixing Distortions: Paul & 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Fixing spurious familiarity about Paul and his letter-writing results in understanding 1 Corinthians 8:1-13. Recently...

July 12, 2020

Sowing Seeds: Allegory-Gone-Wild in the Parables

Sowing Seeds of deeper understanding, this post is all about understanding the parables of Jesus...

July 09, 2020

Personal Story: A Fellow Dying Inmate

Personal Story from the author of these blogs about how saving love met him in...

July 07, 2020

Nature in Paul’s Writings

Nature in Paul's writings, or rather the Greek word we translate as nature, probably doesn't...

July 07, 2020

Even More Henotheism—Paul and the New Testament Writings

Even more henotheism is to be found throughout the pages of the New Testament documents....

July 06, 2020

Revisiting Henotheism

Revisiting the controversial subject of henotheism is good for spuriously familiar readings of Old Testament...

July 05, 2020

Difficult Men: Paul & the Pillars

Difficult men are found at the roots of the Church, and nasty disputes between them...

July 05, 2020

Apostolic Succession: What It Is

Apostolic succession is true, but maybe not in the way we often popularly imagine it...

July 04, 2020

Fundamentalists or Scratch-off Atheists?

Fundamentalists claim to be big on truth and why it matters, but their rationalistic obsession...

July 01, 2020

Idols & Statues

Idols are forbidden by God, but what about statues and other religious art? Idols and...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

Succession of Apostles on the Feast of Peter & Paul

Succession of the Apostles deals with the fact that bishops later assumed the pastoral responsibilities...

June 14, 2020

Eucharist: The Most Important Transformation

Eucharist, the source and summit of our Christian lives, concerns unity and transformation—but what is...

June 12, 2020

Straw Man Predilections & How Resurrection was Experienced

Straw man arguments, in theology and Scripture, don't become valid if they come from good...

June 10, 2020

Monotheism & Trinity—Doctrine Develops

Monotheism and the doctrine of the Trinity evolved through an amazing process in many messy...

June 06, 2020

God in the Bible—Only One? Or One of Many?

God in the Bible is often presented as the preeminent, rather than exclusive, sky deity....