1 Corinthians 15
For Friday in Easter week, I thought I would simply give us the earliest discussion of the Resurrection of Jesus we possess, and that from an eyewitness, no less. The
For Friday in Easter week, I thought I would simply give us the earliest discussion of the Resurrection of Jesus we possess, and that from an eyewitness, no less. The
One often runs into things like this on the Interwebs: The myth that we have to choose between orthodoxy and orthopraxy is a very popular schism in the mental life
Seeing as how we are on the very doorstep of Christmas, I thought I’d run this fun little piece I wrote a decade or so ago: *** It’s Christmas, that
Take, for instance, this ancient Hebrew take on what becomes of mediocre tyrants (in this case, King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel) who surround themselves with lying sycophants:
He writes concerning the fake New Age Our Father we discussed yesterday: Obviously, this is not a translation at all. However, I have heard some decent scholarly arguments that the
On Friday, we looked at the extremely weird phenomenon of the Reactionary who tries to deflect from Catholic Social Teaching concerning the relationship of rich and poor by arguing that
The extreme simplicity of the gospel texts makes it very easy for post-moderns to assume the authors were simple-minded. But in fact, they are writers of unparalleled subtlety and economy.
Decades ago, it was the fashion to say, “Shakespeare was not written by Shakespeare but by somebody else of the same name”. That fashion died the death it deserved. But
The Bible is not the Big Book of Everything and the attempt to enlist Jesus in the minutiae of highly specific and historically conditioned culture war arguments is doomed. Take
Over on the Book of Face, somebody posted a reading from Matthew followed by a favorite passage from Chesterton’s Orthodoxy. I will reproduce both here: Jesus said to his disciples:“Amen,
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