In the first installment I set out the traditional Greco-Roman letter format and looked at the ldquo Judases rdquo and ldquo Jameses rdquo in the New Testament nbsp In the second installment I weighed the arguments on authorship and decided the best evidence points in the direction of the Ju

No less a theologian than Saint Thomas Aquinas lamented that when it comes to understanding the Holy Spirit our problems begin with the name Summa Theologiae I 36 1 Think of all things that can be called holy or how often one might speak of a spirit Even with the two words conjoined the min

In the first installment I set out the traditional Greco-Roman letter format and looked at the ldquo Judases rdquo and ldquo Jameses rdquo in the New Testament nbsp In the second installment I weighed the arguments on authorship and decided the best evidence points in the direction of the Ju

As I drive home on the 35E from St Paul to my home I am greeted by a huge Billboard from local station My Talk 107 1 which has a picture of Lindsay Lohan and the caption ldquo The Radio Home of Train Wrecks rdquo I ldquo know rdquo Lindsay Lohan in a passing way as I have seen Mean Girls an

Here rsquo s a passage to ponder It rsquo s from My Beloved World 2013 the memoir of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sottomayor As a young child she didn rsquo t feel particularly close to her mother a working nurse raising two children while struggling with her husband rsquo s alcoholism Then

What do we know of heaven Jesus Where is heaven Jesus What is heaven like Jesus The questions and answers may seem blithe but they come to the core of the bittersweet mystery we call the Ascension quot As they were looking on he was lifted up and a cloud took him from their sight quot Ac