Can a Hymn’s Truth be Canceled?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: Do not be afraid, I am with youI have called you each by nameCome and follow MeI will bring you homeI love you and you are mine These lyrics from…
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OZ: The Parable Christ Might Have Written.
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The characters in the Wizard of OZ represent human characteristics as ancient as the Old Testament. In Sunday’s first reading (1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12), King Solomon seems like the Scarecrow,…
Does God Believe We Exist?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The readings for Sunday’s Mass offer an infinite bank account we can draw from to finance a bet on God’s existence. Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher, made such a wager…
Growing Harvestable Crops is a Dirty Job, but SOMEBODY has to do it.
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Usually when someone from the government says they’re here to help you, instinct says “run for the hills!” Unless, that is, those hills are infertile and need aeration. Then Uncle…
False Prophets Fight for Our Mortality
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The Leader we Christians worship is the same one Zechariah anticipated centuries before Christ’s arrival. This ancient prophet anticipated a king who would enter his kingdom, as this Sunday’s first…
Fill this World’s Gaping Vacancies
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Sunday’s Old Testament reading has real life application to our modern lives (2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a). It involves a “woman of influence” and her husband who felt their place in…
One Commandment Survives its Broken Tablet
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Comedy is funny because it tells the truth. And though finding comedy in the Bible can be difficult, Mel Brooks mined the Old Testament for comedy gold in his “History…
Did God Design Creep Into His Mission?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) As the Godly mission to save humanity from itself is depicted throughout the Bible, it almost reads like “mission creep.” That’s a military term defined as “the gradual or incremental…
“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This is the central question for anyone trying to understand the solemnity of Christ’s body and blood. But trying to answer it unwisely can soon get silly. “Am I eating…
Truth Un-Dumbs both Human and Artificial Intelligence
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) For more than a half-century now, this Sunday’s gospel reading has appeared in stadiums across the U.S. Posted on placards as simply, “John 3:16,”curious fans looked it up to discover:…