“… I discovered a strange coincidence. Among those who survived the carnage of the Great War, two of the 20th century’s greatest religious thinkers had faced one another across exactly the same stretch of the Front on the devastated hillsides to the west of Verdun in June 1916. Both went on to describe their war… Read More Existential Anxiety
Modern or post-modern man (i.e., the human person, m/f) is characterized by an attachment to ambiguity and relativity. Truth, the very notion of it, is suspect in our time. As a human being, I am obliged to truly encounter my world, my times. It has engaged me. Nearly 73 years old, I have tried to… Read More The Light and Life of Being
Steve Turner in his important 2016 book, Beatles ’66: The Revolutionary Year, relates what John Lennon told him regarding his view of Jesus Christ; “Once he left school and music began to take up more of his free time,” Turner says, “John stopped attending church, but wealth, adulation, and his drug experiences made him reconsider… Read More John Lennon, The “Passover Plot,” and The Gospel “Bullshit”
by Thomas Storck. What is needed is a real debate on religious questions providing a rational public apologetic for the faith. “For we were not following fictitious tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his grandeur.” – 2 Peter 1:16 The… Read More The Catholic Faith Is Not a Noble Lie
Well, unless you’ve found a good and sound school (and they’re certainly out there), in your first theology courses you may not learn much about the biblical Jesus, but you’re almost guaranteed to come out knowing what these early 20th century theological neologism’s mean: formgeschicte, heilsgeschichte, eschatologiegeschichte, Menschheitsgeschichte, Gottesgeschichte, Heilsgeheimnis… I personally never found them edifying… Read More Going to Seminary?
“We, the Ordinary People of the Streets“. The words express the core of Madeleine Delbrel’s vision: These are the people who have an ordinary job, an ordinary household, or an ordinary celibacy. People with ordinary sicknesses, and ordinary times of grieving. People with an ordinary house, and ordinary clothes. These are the people of ordinary… Read More We the Ordinary
Evangelical Protestant Michael Jones explains here
