The Good Word

Previously on this blog I have written about the Common English Bible translation and the Conservative Bible Project though I have not connected the two in nbsp any way At the Better Bibles Blog which is dedicated to improving Bible translations Wayne Leman has written about claims that the Comm

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

What will you do when the rapture comes If you aren rsquo t a fundamentalist Christian one who reads the Bible literally you rsquo re probably not preparing to be seized by Christ and taken up into heaven before closing tribulations fall upon the world Of course if the novelist Tom Perotta is

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

If one has been the victim of a profoundly evil act how does one mdash or rather how should one mdash respond By a profoundly evil act I do not mean that one is simply the recipient of some unkindness that chafes but is quickly healed but truly the recipient of a life-altering injustice so

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