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August 2021

August 28, 2021
Instead of looking into the future or biblical past, understanding Apocalypse lies in knowing the...
August 23, 2021
Paul's Letter to the Romans is the most overrated document in the Bible. Overrated, that's...
August 18, 2021
Much of the titles and supposed behavior attributed to Mary can be explained by way...
August 15, 2021
For as long as we've known her, Mediterranean Mary has been used to service cultural...
August 15, 2021
Assumptions make an ass out of you and me, Catholics. Someone asked me, "Did the...
August 14, 2021
Word of God, the expression, rolls off the tongue for Christians—but what does it even...
August 11, 2021
You can't really understand the Gospel of John without getting Johannine anti-language.  In light of last...
August 07, 2021
Anti-language fills the Gospel of John, and its author belonged to an antisociety, not a...
August 07, 2021
Let's break down what eating flesh and drinking blood would have meant to first-century Israelites....
August 06, 2021
This August, Sunday Gospels swim in “John.” The Gospel reading for this Sunday is John 6:41-51....
August 03, 2021
Finding the real Jesus means dropping old mental idols and getting informed by the social...

July 2021

July 28, 2021
Jesus was not a progressive. As my readers explored last week, U.S. Christians commit many identity...
July 25, 2021
Sorry to U.S. Bible readers, but Jesus’ wonder of multiplying loaves and fish was neither...
July 23, 2021
Alien to humanity depictions make Jesus unreal and provide yet another congenial identity theft. In...
July 20, 2021
Great One Jesus is another culturally congenial identity theft committed by American Christians. "Make America...
July 19, 2021
Intellectual Sage Jesus is yet another culturally congenial identity theft American Christians. Last time we...
July 18, 2021
American Christians prefer a fake Jesus congenial to our values in place of the real...
July 10, 2021
Inspiration is messy and very human precisely because it is divine. This blog is named...
July 10, 2021
Authority over demons figures heavily in this Sunday's Gospel, but what is this really about?...
July 03, 2021
If you are upset by what I blog, that’s probably a good thing. Upset? Some people...
July 02, 2021
Biblical languages aren’t much help in understanding Scripture without understanding the cultural background. How useful...

June 2021

June 17, 2021
If you truly love your country, don’t be stupid, American Catholics. "Are you proud to...
June 16, 2021
Marvel’s new show LOKI opens a theological box into mysteries of God’s omniscience and human...
June 07, 2021
It turns out that the Last Supper wasn’t Passover, unlike what some Gospels interpret. Yesterday...

May 2021

May 29, 2021
Horrible homilies proliferate, but never so much as on Trinity Sunday and Corpus Christi. Yes,...
May 27, 2021
Sky-Vault is just one of many strange expressions that will get you tried for heresy...
May 22, 2021
Theological words are limited by many things, including culture. Words are great and needed for...
May 21, 2021
How did the gospel evolve from Jesus to us?  The gospel is the “good news”...
May 15, 2021
Our arrogance signifies handsomely just how ardently we reject the Holy Spirit. In “Acts,” the...
May 12, 2021
Genocide and Christian stupidity mix well.  It’s been three more nights of hell for Palestinians....
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