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August 2020

August 14, 2020
The Assumption of Mary offers us a challenge—either see her with new eyes or continue...
August 14, 2020
Prophets like Elijah get their ugly parts redacted in Mass readings. The Prophets can be...
August 13, 2020
Romans 9—11 offers challenges to American Christian individualistic complacency. This past Sunday, we read from...
August 09, 2020
Why you don’t understand Jesus’ Sea-walking is because you are reading Mediterranean Gospels strained through...
August 07, 2020
Our blind spots render Christianity useless to help and heal the Dark Age we have...
August 04, 2020
Trump and 666 is a marriage made in hell, or in the popular imaginations of...

July 2020

July 31, 2020
More important than belief in the real presence is knowing who is really present. Sometimes...
July 30, 2020
Babylon, the Sea Beast, 666, and everything else in the book of Revelation is not...
July 28, 2020
The Beast in Revelation 13:1-18 wasn't Emperor Nero, but rather a sea monster constellation. Who...
July 25, 2020
Apocalypse, or the book of Revelation, generates much ignorance and confusion, not the least of...
July 22, 2020
Results from our recent quiz on Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels may surprise and challenge...
July 19, 2020
The centurion of Matthew 8:15-13 does not prove “Matthew” or Jesus gave Good News to...
July 19, 2020
Matthew, his Gospel, and Jesus within it, only had Israelite concerns and zero use for...
July 18, 2020
Quiz yourself on just how well you understand Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Spurious familiarity...
July 13, 2020
Images and their shadow-power, not worshiping false gods, is what Paul is addressing in 1...
July 13, 2020
Fixing spurious familiarity about Paul and his letter-writing results in understanding 1 Corinthians 8:1-13. Recently...
July 12, 2020
Sowing Seeds of deeper understanding, this post is all about understanding the parables of Jesus...
July 09, 2020
Personal Story from the author of these blogs about how saving love met him in...
July 07, 2020
Nature in Paul's writings, or rather the Greek word we translate as nature, probably doesn't...
July 07, 2020
Even more henotheism is to be found throughout the pages of the New Testament documents....
July 06, 2020
Revisiting the controversial subject of henotheism is good for spuriously familiar readings of Old Testament...
July 05, 2020
Difficult men are found at the roots of the Church, and nasty disputes between them...
July 05, 2020
Apostolic succession is true, but maybe not in the way we often popularly imagine it...
July 04, 2020
Fundamentalists claim to be big on truth and why it matters, but their rationalistic obsession...
July 01, 2020
Idols are forbidden by God, but what about statues and other religious art? Idols and...

June 2020

June 29, 2020
Succession of the Apostles deals with the fact that bishops later assumed the pastoral responsibilities...
June 14, 2020
Eucharist, the source and summit of our Christian lives, concerns unity and transformation—but what is...
June 12, 2020
Straw man arguments, in theology and Scripture, don't become valid if they come from good...
June 10, 2020
Monotheism and the doctrine of the Trinity evolved through an amazing process in many messy...
June 06, 2020
God in the Bible is often presented as the preeminent, rather than exclusive, sky deity....
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