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the flood & why

I was thinking about the flood -- the whole-earth mabbul that swallowed the world with water and drowned almost every living thing. I ...

>> a poem by Ernesto Cardenal, an interpretation of the biblical Psalm 22, of David, from Cardenal's "Salmos de este mome...

I've been concerned about the "masculinity" of God. Why does God call "Himself" a "He"? Doesn't it ...

We were impressed by the burning bush and the pillar of fire. We thought God was close in the Angel and in the Shekinah. But He wanted to b...

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor tha...

To some who were confident of their own rightness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two people went into a...

(if God can change a wretch like me, then surely He could calm a troubled sea.) (if God from proud to meek can make, then wine from wate...

The feast was going well, just as Simon had planned it. Jesus of Nazareth, the famed Healer and Teacher, was staying in the town of Bethan...

Maybe you've had a hard week. Your spirit feels worn out and overspent. (Blessed are the poor in spirit.) Perhaps behind that ...

We've labeled one day in the year "Easter" and on it we remember the resurrection of Christ from the darkness of the gr...

The Sabbath is doing its appointed work in me today. As the sun sank past the corn fields I was restless and exhausted, sleepy but stress...

"Truth is, p0rn liberated men much the same way The Pill liberated women. Men are no longer obligated to lifetime economic contracts me...

A few weeks ago I re-read the Gospels. Obviously there is a lot of richness in those four books on Jesus' life, but what forcefully stru...

Emily's post on Waving Flag made me think thoughts. "love is the answer, that's what they say, but look how they treat us, ...

Now the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way...

It seems as though many of my friends and fellow bloggers are like me and spend a lot of time wondering about what God's will for them i...

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, ch...

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