We look to the stories and mythology of our culture for answers to the big questions about life: How did we get here? Why are we here? What do we learn from the stories of our past? How do we shape the stories of our future? For Jews and Christians, the Bible is the [...]
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Why do chameleons change color?
Posted in Bible, Bible study, Old Testament, Scripture on May 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Jesus, the Good Shepherd
Posted in Easter, Good Shepherd, Gospels, Lectionary, New Testament, Old Testament, Scripture on April 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps one of the most endearing images in popular religious art is that of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. Children immediately grasp this image, indentifying with the cute lamb held in Jesus’ loving arms. In fact, this image lends its name to a method of religious education called the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. Based [...]
Synod on the Word of God
Posted in Bible, Bible study, Scripture on April 27, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s the rare Friday evening that I curl up with a Vatican document, but I suspect I’ll be doing just that today. The Vatican released the Lineamenta for the upcoming world synod of bishops today. They missed the feast of St. Mark by two days. That would have been a nice touch. More when [...]
Jesus, the Apostles and Breakfast on the Beach
Posted in Easter, Gospels, Lectionary, New Testament, Resurrrection, Scripture on April 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Today’s Gospel pulls together themes and echoes of the many stories of Jesus’ ministry in Galilee: the call of the fishermen to be the first disciples, the multiplication of bread and fish to feed the crowds, the miraculous catch of fish, the meal shared with Jesus, the breaking of the bread. These are the [...]
“Life comes at you fast.”
Posted in Gospels, Holy Week, Lectionary, Liturgy, Palm Sunday, Passion Narratives, Scripture on April 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Perhaps you’ve seen these Nationwide Insurance commercials: the partying college student is suddenly a balding man with a mortgage; the baby in a car seat is a teenager by the next intersection, the father pushing a toddler on a swing is suddenly knocked down by the swing now occupied by a hefty adolescent. Their slogan [...]
‘Not by bread alone’
Posted in Bible, Scripture on January 21, 2007 | No Comments »
A while back, Xerox had a TV commercial for their copiers that showed a medieval monk with a commission for several copies of The Bible and he goes into the basement and starts up the Xerox copier. Its humor, of course, lay in the choronological disjuntion of 20th-century technology available to monks in the Middle [...]
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