Jesus
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Your Own Historical Jesus
Who was the historical Jesus of Nazareth? What did he actually say and do, as contrasted with what early Christians (e.g., Paul and the Gospel writers) believed that he said and did? What did the man Jesus actually think of… Continue reading
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Who ‘Deserves’ Anything?
A homily from Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, on the Gospel of St. Matthew 20:1-16. The suffering that arises from the sense of entitlement. Yet verily, verily… the last shall be first and the first shall be last. https://cac.org/images/MP3s/RRHomily-2014_09_21-Deserves-128k.mp3 Continue reading
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What You Believe About Homosexuality Doesn’t Matter | In The Parlor
Very well said. Very well said… The debate over the “rightness or wrongness” of homosexuality has once again been fired up. The appeals to the Biblical passages have been made. The academic rebuttals to the interpretation of those passages has… Continue reading
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Interview with Pope Francis I
I am not going to go back into the flock of the Catholic Church anytime soon. I know that. However, Pope Francis does continue to intrigue me. Who Is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?I am a sinner. This is the most accurate… Continue reading
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Son of Man: Scott Korb on Reza Aslan’s “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” | Los Angeles Review of BooksLos Angeles Review of Books
…Zealot is a biography and history of early Christianity whose central premise is that to understand who Jesus was we must better understand the world he lived in. This is Roman Palestine, an occupied land. The first third of Aslan’s… Continue reading
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Combative Fox Interviewer Gets Destroyed by Religious Scholar Reza Aslan | RYOT News
I find that I get more from reading Esquire, Truthout, and even some blogs than I get from watching journalism on any of the news networks. So while I am not a great friend of the global financial news networks–CNN,… Continue reading
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Overstating Galilean Persecution Still Isn’t Helping
Originally posted on Pasco Phronesis: Professor David Nutt has a few reasonable points now and then. Recently he has criticized restrictions on research involving controlled substances such as opioids and hallucinogenics. While he’s not persuaded of the harms of these… Continue reading
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Jesus of Siberia | Vice
Deep in Siberia’s Taiga forest is Vissarion, a cult leader who looks like Jesus and claims to be the voice of God. He’s known as “the Teacher” to his 4,000 followers, who initially seem surprisingly normal. Over time, however, their… Continue reading
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Salvator Mundi – Da Vinci
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Conversations with a Devotee – Kafka
Conversations with a Devotee by Franz Kafka There was a time when I went every day into a church, since a girl I was in love with knelt there in prayer for half an hour in the evening and I… Continue reading
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A Frank Prayer
Oh thou endless Great Way, broad and flowing in profound tranquility, Where hatred happens, let there now be love; Where weakness occurs, fortitude; Where doubt arises, faithfulness; Where despair crushes, hopefulness; Where darkness encroaches, enlightenment; Where sadness lingers, joyfulness. Encompassing… Continue reading
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Hans Memling in Brugge
..[T]he Memling Museum [is] housed in the former Hospital of Saint John. The hospital functioned from the 13th century onwards, and much of the museum’s collection is devoted to illustrating its history. Sixteenth century surgery tools used at the hospital… Continue reading
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Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World
The oppressed, the put-upon, the dejected–all sink into an existence where the oppressor counts on never being challenged because the ones who are afflicted would do anything to be something other than the down-trodden. Those who grow in such power… Continue reading
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