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August 2021

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 03, 2021

Finding the Real Deal Jesus

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

May 2021

May 22, 2021

Words Are Limited Or Ant-Theology

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

February 2021

February 13, 2021

Biblical Christianity—Is It Possible?

Is biblical Christianity possible, or even desirable, in a 21st-century American cultural context? I hear...

November 2020

November 13, 2020

Perspective—Was Jesus a Shameful Son?

Was Jesus a shameful or honorable son? Perspective goes a long way in how we...

August 2020

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...

July 2020

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 09, 2020

Personal Story: A Fellow Dying Inmate

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

June 2020

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 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 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 09, 2020

Mary in May

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

January 2020

January 30, 2020

Difficulties! Gospels Cannot be Biographies!

Difficulties abound for Western Bible readers expecting of the Gospels the kind of fact-precise, historically...

November 2019

November 18, 2019

Answers in Bible Various and Contradictory

Answers to ancient Mediterranean problems come varied and contradictory in the library called "Bible." Answers....

November 14, 2019

Heaven is NOT in the Bible??

Heaven belongs in our catechisms, prayers, and creeds—but not in English Scripture translations. Heaven help...