I am always worried when people go to the ldquo that rsquo s how Jesus did it rdquo arguments especially when Ned Flanders gets dissed in the process ldquo You don rsquo t think I should overturn your tables That rsquo s what Jesus did in the Temple rdquo ldquo Whoa I rsquo m sorry you don

The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them they brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them and he sat on them A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road The crowds that went ahead of him and

My comments on Wednesday with respect to historical reality and ldquo deception rdquo in the Bible drove me back to some good friends books on interpretation of the Bible What I found disturbing in the original post on which I was commenting and in many of the comments which followed was this

ldquo For as the days of Noah were so will be the coming of the Son of Man For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away so too will be

The theme of renewal of new life runs throughout the readings for the Fifth Sunday of Lent More precisely resurrection from the dead runs through all of these readings This is the case even though the first reading Ezekiel 37 12-14 as does all of chapter 37 speaks literally of the whole house

Access to an article by Gerald McDermott from the April 2011 edition of First Things has been posted at the site for the past few weeks It is titled Evangelicals Divided and concerns recent theological fissures breaks or tensions - I cannot decide amongst these terms - concerning the role of Scr