Jesus told his disciples this parable ldquo The Kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage he sent them into his vineyard Going out about nine o rsquo clock he saw others standing idle in the m

There was an interesting post at Scot McNight rsquo s Jesus Creed blog on September 14 2011 dealing with ldquo universalism rdquo in the New Testament nbsp Basically McNight wanted to know why the texts speaking of ldquo all rdquo finding salvation in Christ were not taken as seriously as tho

The fundamental paradox of Christianity is the Cross A reading for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Philippians 2 6-11 reveals the outlines of this paradox This passage known as ldquo the Hymn to Christ rdquo is thought by many scholars to be a ldquo pre-Pauline rdquo hymn su

The USA is often portrayed as the ldquo Greatest Country in the World rdquo or conversely nbsp the ldquo Great Satan rdquo the place to fulfill the American Dream or the Boulevard of Broken Dreams On September 11 2001 the reality of both of those categorizations met when planes were flown i

Monsignor Charles Pope of the Archdiocese of Washington wrote an online post on September 1 which stated that ldquo Jesus Was no ldquo Girlie-man rdquo On Restoring a Truer Vision of the Biblical Jesus from the 20th Century Remake rdquo In this article Monsignor Pope claims that images of Jes

ldquo All you need is love rdquo sang the Beatles and we should not overlook the fact that Jesus and Paul were singing the same song as John and Paul far earlier and from a song sheet developed in ancient Israel Admittedly the early Christians developed the tune in a particular manner riffing

The Apostle Paul writes I do not understand my own actions For I do not do what I want but I do the very thing I hate Now if I do what I do not want I agree that the law is good But in fact it is no longer I that do it but sin that dwells within me For I know that nothing good dwells within

I was greeted on nbsp my Facebook page late this afternoon with a discussion regarding a blog post on which nbsp a number of my colleagues were commenting hat-tip to Gerald Schlabach The post is by Lillian Daniel a UCC Church minister on the reading Matthew 16 18 And I tell you that you are P

The Readings for Sunday August 28 the nbsp Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Jeremiah 20 7-9 Psalm 63 2-9 Romans 12 1-2 Matthew 16 21-27 raise nbsp two questions one simple and one complex nbsp How does it feel to suffer What does it mean to suffer Suffering consumes the body ev

I came across this short notice in The Catholic Sun that the co-founder of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Sofia Cavalletti died in Rome yesterday Cavalletti was 94 years old nbsp Cavalletti a Hebrew and scripture scholar began her work with children in 1954 after a discussion with childre