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How Can Jesus Command Us to Love Our Enemies?
Today’s gospel reading has Jesus exhorting His followers to love their enemies, contrasting this with Jewish and pagan teaching. . There are two places mentioned in scripture that Jesus’ followers express dismay at the difficulty of His teaching: consuming Him in the Eucharist (Jn 6:66) and His ban on divorce (Mt 19:10). If there were […]... Read More
God and His Secondary Causes
Rational inconsistencies fascinate me. . The ancient world had a simple grasp of the universe that saw all phenomena as direct signs from God or the gods. . While almost all modern Christians willingly give credence to the notion that in the order of nature, God as first Cause uses secondary causes to bring about […]... Read More
Mother’s Day question to Ponder for Christians
Mother’s Day elicits one simple question for Christians: If Jesus honors his mother Mary, and Christians are ‘in Christ’ as part of His mystical body, wouldn’t that mean Christians, with their Head, also honor Mary as their mother in the order of grace?... Read More
He came to heal the blind
It’s very easy to see that woundedness, unforgiveness and its subsequent bitterness of heart, result in a very skewed view of reality. Sadly, it’s the default state of being in our fallen world for those who refuse the Cure. +++... Read More
The Meaning of Death
Why do we die? Are we simply creatures of nature with a beginning and an end? What is the biblical message about man's gift of immortality and how it was squandered? How ought we now look at human suffering and death?
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The Deeper Meaning of Easter
Go beneath the surface by going beneath the symbols on the meaning of Easter. Nature is beautiful, but only a symbol of the supernatural realities that await us. Click to read... Read More