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Could Jesus Learn Things?

The second part of my series on Jesus and the Canaanite Woman.  Here’s a taste, read the rest at the link: Lt us continue with my reader’s remarks: The prepaschal Jesus was ethnocentric to first century Israel. He called her a dog—you know what he called her. Not a female pet dog. A vermin little […]

Mike Flynn has far too much fun…

…correcting yet another “expert” on the martyrdom of Hypatia: At Medium, “The Herstory of Hypatia” — Herstory, get it? — written by one Joshua Hehe, who bills himself as: Theorist, Pantheist, Ontologist, Syncretist, Glocalist, Anthropologist, Populist, Cosmologist, Futurist, Ethicist, Alarmist, Epistemologist, Occultist, Artist,… Clearly this impressive list of accomplishments qualifies him to write about Late Antiquity. […]

Jimmy Akin Looks at Whether the Exodus Occurred

…and does his usual thorough and measured job of sifting the data. Result: Yeah. I’m one of those people who generally thinks that when an entire people attests to the reality of a historical event, it’s a safe bet that something, rather than nothing, lies behind it.  Confident declarations that there is *nothing* to the […]

When Elephants Fight, It is the Grass That Suffers

So the open secret that Harvey Weinstein is a vile swine and sex predator is out.  He’s been doing it for decades, lots of people knew it, and lots of people worked to cover it up. He was, says the Kansas Star, the Democrat Roger Ailes: a powerful bully people were terrified to cross, a […]

The Interchangeability of Gun Cult and Abortion Rhetoric

People are baffled at what I meant by “Gun Cult”. I do not mean “People who like guns or shooting”.  Fire away.  I don’t care.  I’m not a bad shot myself and have no objection to guns, hunting, target shooting, etc. What I do mean is really quite simple.  If your first response to something […]

Sam Rocha is singing his heart out!

Hey, Pacific Northwest Americans and Pacific Southwest Canadians! Check this out! Mark your Calendars!

My Reader Rebecca Fuentes Demonstrates Beautifully…

…that you can offer an authentic Catholic celebration of the family *without* disseminating Alt-Right White Supremacist Eugenics Blood Worship propaganda:

Yup

The New Star Wars Trailer Looks Promising

Blood, Tribe, Jonah and the Good Samaritan

Today’s readings put together an Old and New Testament text that, at first glance, may seem unrelated. The OT text is the beginning of the story of Jonah and the gospel reading is the Parable of the Good Samaritan. It took a minute for my slow brain to figure out why the Church combines those […]