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November 2020

November 03, 2020
Do you really want to follow Church Teaching and be genuinely pro-life? Don’t be confused,...

October 2020

October 29, 2020
The Gospel of Paul differs from the "good news" proclaimed by Jesus before his death...
October 27, 2020
When it comes to homosexuality, many Christians are being stupid and unfair to both Pope...
October 24, 2020
Rising Cases of COVID-19 is a grim reminder of criminal negligence among leaders, both secular...
October 22, 2020
Gentiles and the historical Paul mix well in imaginations colored by spurious facts, but not...
October 19, 2020
Math doesn’t lie about Paul’s evangelization.   In yesterday’s post, we discussed the reliability of...
October 18, 2020
When it comes to reading Paul for cues about how to evangelize, Christians’ worst obstacle...
October 17, 2020
Give me more Mike Flanagan anything. The horror filmmaker doesn’t offer cheap chills and thrills—he...
October 16, 2020
  No more JPII saints. I am nauseated by them. As should you be.  This...
October 10, 2020
Gratitude saves even in the darkest days. Dark thoughts sometimes enter the head. When this...
October 06, 2020
Believers were given the fantastic vocation at baptism to become a holy person—but what does...
October 02, 2020
President Donald Trump has COVID-19. Trump Has Coronavirus. This virus doesn’t care about your status...

September 2020

September 30, 2020
Embarrassment, my fellow Americans, is what it is. We are an international embarrassment. I’m not...
September 28, 2020
Allegory-gone-wild makes things in Scripture deceptively "obvious”. Since New Testament times, believers seem to be...
September 26, 2020
Got a question for you. Jesus is disclosed in the sacraments, yes? Hope the Catholics...
September 25, 2020
May God grant us insight to both discern the moral limits of pacifism and actively...
September 19, 2020
While it is tempting to see our dark trials written about in Revelation, John the...
September 16, 2020
Who is worthy of inclusion at the Lord's Table matters in times when Eucharist is...
September 12, 2020
Catholic stupidity is deadlier than a host of evils. Last time, I wrote about the...
September 09, 2020
What happens when the Church, as a sacrament, fails to do what it signifies? Sacraments...
September 04, 2020
When 21st-century Western Christians take anything in the Bible at face value, it’ll take a...
September 02, 2020
Biblical prophecy and predestination concern the forthcoming, not the far future like in popular American...

August 2020

August 31, 2020
Jeremiah raped by God may sound blasphemous, but this metaphor is Scriptural. Things were getting...
August 29, 2020
Chadwick Boseman is dead at 43, leaving us a legacy of heroes reminding us that...
August 29, 2020
Is Donald Trump the Antichrist, or does the book called Revelation say nothing about either...
August 26, 2020
Apocalypse then meant something, and Revelation, as well as any other Scripture, must first be...
August 23, 2020
Baptism and Eucharist should be more than using correct verbal formulas. COVID-19 continues to ravage...
August 19, 2020
Jesus, Master of Insults, was not the sweet, polite, gentle figure we imagine in parishes...
August 17, 2020
Trads claim that recognizing the starving poverty of Galilean peasants Mary and Jesus is “hateful...
August 16, 2020
Master of arguments and insults, Jesus loses at his own game, beaten by a foreign...
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