In 1949, Joseph Campbell published his theory of the archetypal “monomyth” in The Hero With a Thousand Faces. His claim was that all stories follow one general...
On Ash Wednesday, many churches read from the Gospel Jesus’s warning against hypocrisy: "Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to sta...
And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass...
Christianity is a faith deeply rooted in time. Most Christian traditions observe different “seasons” in their liturgy each year: Advent, Lent, Ordinary Time, f...
Since the “Darwinian Revolution” in the 19th century, many naturalists have attempted to bootstrap a morality from the bare existence of nature, to make sense ...
“When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then it...
Exodus 33:1-6“Then the Lord said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abrah...
See, days are coming—oracle of the LORD—
when I will raise up a righteous branch for David;
As king he shall reign and govern wisely,
he shall do wha...
For me, as I’m sure for many of you as well, summer is a time for reading. A time to catch up on the tomes and tomes that have been added to my reading list sin...
Today's Reading: Matthew 27:1-56
In my reading of the New Testament, I often wonder how it is that Paul can honestly claim that he is the “foremost of all si...
