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June 2020

June 04, 2020

Donald & the Brainwashed Reshape Christ

Donald Trump and his American Christian cult followers continue a long and horrid tradition of...

June 01, 2020

Tips Helpful on Scripture Reading

The following are six tips to make us Catholics into better Bible readers. Tips at...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Christ Risen Gives His Power

Christ truly is risen, and human beings can really experience his transforming Spirit, even Americans. People...

May 29, 2020

Pregnant Sky Woman of Revelation & Mary

Is the Pregnant Sky Woman of Revelation 12 really Mary, the Mother of Jesus? Pregnant...

May 28, 2020

Encountering the Risen Christ

Encountering Jesus risen and alive can be both an experience with someone very real and...

May 26, 2020

Hallucination or Resurrection? Visions of the Risen Jesus

Hallucination and psychosis, used as attempts to explain away Resurrection appearances, fails. Hallucination, aberration in...

May 25, 2020

Gospels—What are They & Why?

The Gospels are extremely different documents, in many ways remote when compared to what American...

May 23, 2020

Mother of Jesus in “John” is Highly Symbolic

The Mother of Jesus becomes a powerful symbol for the Johannine community that wrote the...

May 22, 2020

Miraculous Walking on the Sea—Experienced in Alternate Reality

Miraculous doings of Jesus, such as his walking on the Sea, can be better understood...

May 21, 2020

Ascension of Jesus and Other Sky Journeys

Ascension of the Risen Jesus into the Realm of God is just one of many...

May 20, 2020

Miracle—Something Jesus Really Did?

Miracle, meaning an overriding of physical laws governing the universe, is a nice post-Enlightenment word...

May 19, 2020

Sea in the Gospels is a Person

The Sea Jesus walked on is a great body of water to us, but to...

May 18, 2020

Walking on the Sea

Walking on the sea is a mighty deed of Jesus recorded in both the Synoptic...

May 16, 2020

More Contradictions and Disagreements in the Gospels

More contradictions and disagreements exist within the Gospels that Catholics and other Christians should not...

May 13, 2020

Luke: First to Depict Mary Positively

Luke expands the role of Mary positively, setting the stage for later Mariological development. Luke...

May 12, 2020

Visionary Seeing the Word

Visionary and culture together interpret what God reveals in altered states of consciousness. Visionary—in the...

May 11, 2020

Matthew and Mary: A Somewhat Nicer Picture

Matthew follows Mark, but slightly improves his overwhelmingly negative picture of Jesus’ mother. Matthew makes...

May 11, 2020

Techniques to See God

Techniques exist that can tweak the human nervous system so as to induce trance and...

May 10, 2020

“Mark” and Mary for Mother’s Day

“Mark,” the earliest Gospel, does not present a flattering picture of Jesus’ biological family and...

May 10, 2020

Seeing the Invisible God

Seeing God was something experienced regularly and routinely by the community that produced “John’s Gospel”...

May 09, 2020

Mary in May

Mary, the Mother of God, will be explored rigorously by Messy Inspirations throughout the month...

May 08, 2020

Death of Jesus was Necessary… or Was It?

Death of Jesus was right and necessary for salvation says one Gospel tradition, in disagreement...

May 03, 2020

Sheep in the Gospels—Cute or Macho?

Sheep in the Gospels are the care of male shepherds, and are a most misunderstood...

May 01, 2020

ASC & Biblical Wonders: Etic VS Emic

ASC Experiences fill the Bible but are described in ways alien to Western understanding. ASC—the...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

Appearances of the Risen Jesus: Emmaus and Beyond

Appearances of Jesus risen and alive—like in the Emmaus story—vary among the Gospels, but insights...

April 24, 2020

Disinfectant Cure-all, Trump, & Co-Authoring our Future

Disinfectant to the lungs from "Dr. POTUS" Trump or authentic hope?—the choice is yours! Inject...

April 22, 2020

Birth Again or from Above? John 3:1-21

Birth from God is what the Johannine Jesus offers, something hopelessly misunderstood by Nicodemus. Birth...

April 21, 2020

Nicodemus & Jesus in John 3:1-21

Nicodemus and Jesus converse in Gospel readings all this second Easter week about spiritual matters...

April 20, 2020

Mourning at the Empty Tomb: Ancient Israelite Burial Customs

Mourning the dead was an important and lengthy process for first century Israelites, a process...

April 19, 2020

Thomas the Doubter

Thomas, the disciple associated with doubt and incredulity, is the featured character in the original...