More Than a Building: Christ is Our Model in All Things In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God . . . And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us . . . (John 1:1,4) Any truly Christian anthropology needs to start … Continue reading More Than a Building: A Church is Much, Much More
Random Selection Favors Religion, or, What Would Darwin Do?
I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live. (Deuteronomy 30:19) An Angry God Random selection appears to have doomed its most enthusiastic promoters to extinction. I want to be clear that I am not taking issue in this post with the theory … Continue reading Random Selection Favors Religion, or, What Would Darwin Do?
One H*ll of an After School Activity: Meet the Satan Club
Clearly, their purpose is not to promote a religion in which they assure us they don't believe, and they manifestly don’t model the virtues they claim to advocate.
Feast Your Ears and Rest Your Eyes: Sacred Music and Catholic Culture Podcasts
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one. (1 Corinthians: 4-6) St. Paul, in the well-known passage above, reminds the Corinthians that the Lord … Continue reading Feast Your Ears and Rest Your Eyes: Sacred Music and Catholic Culture Podcasts
Newspeak and the Word of God
If you want to change the Church, if you want to change the beliefs that have animated Christians for two millennia, you need to take away the concrete images, the traditional words, and the familiar actions that embody the traditional understanding of the faith.
Christ is King of All . . . Even The Holidays
Christ is King of All We know that Christ is "King of All," but do we know what that means? So Paul, standing in the middle of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I … Continue reading Christ is King of All . . . Even The Holidays
For Such A Time As This: Powers, Principalities & The Culture Wars
The Culture Wars I really don't want to be a culture warrior. I'm willing to bet that you probably don't want to be one, either. It seems, however, that there's no hiding from the escalating clash of Weltanschauungen that's invading every corner of our culture. Formerly neutral spaces, from bakeries to professional sports, have become battle fields. … Continue reading For Such A Time As This: Powers, Principalities & The Culture Wars
Keep the “Hallowed” in Halloween
We have forgotten Christ’s Victory, and so are left with only Death and Corruption, apparently unchallenged. A society that celebrates death and corruption for its own sake is, I submit, a society in deep, deep trouble.
Why Would You Want Satan As A Mascot?
In their case the god of this world [the Devil] has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God. (2 Corinthians 4:4) I don't watch professional sports these days, as their main appeal was always as a … Continue reading Why Would You Want Satan As A Mascot?
We Came, We Saw . . . God Conquered – Jan Sobieski and The Holy Name of Mary
Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God." (Mark 10:27) Many of us are upset, quite rightly, that twenty years after our intervention in Afghanistan, we seem to have accomplished little aside from the deaths of several thousands of our young men … Continue reading We Came, We Saw . . . God Conquered – Jan Sobieski and The Holy Name of Mary