A Question about the Redemptive Sufferings of Unbelievers
A reader asks: Help me out buddy with some theology. Can a non believer’s suffering be redemptive???? I’m struggling to know what to do with the sheer level of real
A reader asks: Help me out buddy with some theology. Can a non believer’s suffering be redemptive???? I’m struggling to know what to do with the sheer level of real
A reader writes: Why do some of us seem to suffer so much? I have a friend suffering a horrible loss, and they already have suffered other horrible losses in
Periodically (such as right now) I enjoy reiterating my opinion that the Shroud of Turin is, in fact, the burial cloth of Jesus, pointing to stuff like this video …and
He writes: I have recently come into difficulties with Christians who seem to be obsessed – psychologically – with the notion of curses. My understanding is that God permits curses,
When people try to message me at my public figure Facebook page, the robots step in and give a canned “Thank you for your message” reply. This resulted in a
“the bedrock doctrine of Transubstantiation”. Okay. Except, of course, that transubstantiation is not bedrock doctrine. The Catholic Church never heard of it for the first millennium of its existence and
A reader (who, for context, recently lost a beloved sibling) writes: “Do you think people in purgatory can see us ? Are they sad if we sin?” I think people
One sample of why MAGA antichrist religion has trouble winning hearts and minds to whatever it is it is trying to sell in place of the gospel arrived in my
…and not Fundamentalist Catholics. For instance, this washed up in my Feedback file for this blog and it made me feel downright wistful for the 90s: I started to read
As we were heading into the Little Lent that is Advent, I posted a bit of what I hoped would be help for a reader who is feeling distant from
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