(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,…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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:…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Resurrection” is another word for change, particularly positive change—which too often we tend to recognize only in the long run, once we look back at the lives we’ve lived. In…