Theology
LAST WORDS ARE IMPORTANT
In the movie Citizen Kane, the last words of Charles Foster Kane–“rose-bud”–served to frame the movie’s narrative and provided the key to understanding the man’s tragic but world-changing life. So too with the greatest story ever told. A little less than 2,000 years ago, Jesus was wrapping up his three-year ministry intensive with his small…
Read MoreBlood and Sex—Part One: Keys to Understanding
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Cor. 1:18 There’s much in the Bible that can confound or offend non-believers and believers alike. And with the rise of the so-called New Atheism, as well as…
Read MoreCatholics and Protestants: Separate Columns in the Same Army? (Part 1) *
“All who are baptized into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, recognizing the Trinity of Persons in the Godhead, the incarnation of the Son and his priestly sacrifice, whether they be Greeks, or Arminians, or Romanists, or Lutherans, or Calvinists, or the simple souls who do not…
Read MoreThe Parable of the Vineyard
(Based on Isaiah 5:1-7, John 15:5-7 & Matthew 28:18-20) Once upon a time the son of a Great King decided to plant a vineyard on a certain hill. His Father had done the same years before. But because the gardeners — husbandmen they called them in those days — had been unfaithful, the vines had…
Read MoreFooling Ourselves to Death
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself–and you are the easiest person to fool.” Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Richard Feynman, in his 1974 Caltech commencement address, “Cargo Cult Science” Feyman was right*. But therein lies perhaps mankind’s greatest problem. If we’re predisposed to fooling ourselves, when can we know we have stopped and…
Read MoreEucharistic Liturgy
Celebrant: Father in heaven, it is right that we should give you thanks and glory. You are the one God, living and true. Through all eternity you live in unapproachable light. Source of all life, beauty, truth and goodness, you have created all things, to fill your creatures with every blessing and your redeemed children…
Read MoreBehold the Lamb of God: Thoughts on the First Advent (Part 1)
As someone who has always loved mysteries and pattern mining, one of my greatest delights after having my lights turned on by the Holy Spirit was then applying that light to the study of scripture. I was astonished to find that compared to the Bible, Moby Dick or Finnegan”s Wake were amateurish when it came…
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