The study of 1 Thessalonians offered here is in the form of a traditional commentary although secondary scholarship is engaged more intermittently than would be the case in a commentary published in a regular print series This is the fourth entry in the online commentary on 1 Thessalonians In the
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My Father, Guilt and Shame
My father was the most amiable of men I used to laugh at him in conversation with guests He rsquo d say to one uncle quot Yes you rsquo re right quot A moment later he would say to another of a quite contrary opinion quot I can rsquo t disagree with that quot If I later challenged him o
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The First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians Online Commentary (3)
In the first entry in the 1 Thessalonians Bible Junkies Commentary I began by looking at introductory matters which were comprised of comments on the nature of a Greco-Roman letter and the background of Paul rsquo s activity in Thessalonica that we know primarily from Acts of the Apostles and par
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The Final Frontier
Can you still say the Pledge of Allegiance Can you recall the wording of the Boy Scout Oath or the Girl Scout Can you recite an Act of Contrition Whether we understood it at the time in childhood we committed these avowals to memory as a way of preparing for adulthood The Pledge of Allegiance r
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The First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians Online Commentary (2)
In the first entry in the 1 Thessalonians Bible Junkies Commentary I began by looking at introductory matters which were comprised of comments on the nature of a Greco-Roman letter and the background of Paul rsquo s activity in Thessalonica that we know primarily from Acts of the Apostles and par
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Bungling the Body and Blood
Grandma you want to play Mass quot quot Play Mass How do you play Mass quot I hated to think this about my own Grandma Klein especially as she was staying several days with us that summer but she was a little slow She wasn rsquo t good at playing Candy Land and in summer who wanted to pl
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The First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians Online Commentary (1)
In January 2012 I began blogging a commentary on the Gospel of Mark available at the Bible Junkies blog and now at America Magazine which I completed in March 2013 From March to May 2013 I blogged a commentary on the Letter of Jude and links to each entry are available here My somewhat ambitio
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The Pope, Forbes Magazine and Biblical Exegesis
In two recent articles in Forbes Magazine Mr Jerry Bowyer has taken Pope Francis to task not for his economics as such but for supporting his ldquo lefty rdquo economics Bowyer rsquo s word not mine with bad biblical exegesis His first article March 13 2013 IsJorge Bergoglio The New Pope
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Trinity Sunday and Father Kapaun
All Saints Day 1950 was properly joyful in Korea U S Army Chaplain Father Emil Kapaun celebrated four field Masses that day for the soldiers in the Third Battalion of the Eighth Calvary Regiment Camped almost on the Chinese boarder the men believed the war all but won All Souls is a somber da
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The Letter of Jude Online Commentary (10)
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