By Ian Wilson (G) To begin to interpret the Bible, we must first read and understand it on it’s own terms. We cannot bring our modern, Westernized sensibilities to the text. We cannot bring to the text a meaning which the authors did not intend. We cannot bring modern, textual criticism to the text, the way we […]
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Laurence “Mack in Texas” Hall (G) Teenagers opened the doors for me at MassWhich used to be my job, but they stepped upAnd in stepping up they are replacing meWhich is good – I miss my youth but delight in theirs A boy and a girl giggled and whisperedIn a language I don’t know except […]
Read MoreBy Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall “He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to Him” -Saint Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons With just a telephone, a clipboard, and a stutter He was a happy band of some of our best friends: May we with him At last approach that […]
Read MoreBy Ian Wilson (G) The most prolific writer of the New Testament was probably born sometime around 4 BC to a devout Jewish family in Tarsus, present-day Turkey. His story is one of redemption and the incredible grace of God. Nothing is known of his formative years, other than he was trained by Gamaliel, one […]
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By Joshua David Ling (Rated PG) Read more of this story here. 32: Sleight Of Hand The last time we left Cyrus Jones,She was given a proposition over the phone.That strange Mr. H had a mission for Cy,A mission that required a local spy. And so she went to a traveling carnival,Uncle Andy’s by name […]
Read MoreBy Sarah Levesque (G) St. Cyril and St. Methodius were brothers who became known as the Apostles to the Slavs and are celebrated on the same day – February 14th in the West, May 11th in the East. St. Methodius was born around 815 while St. Cyril, originally named Constantine, was born around 827, both in […]
Read MoreBy Sarah Levesque Onesimus (own-ESS-ee-mus) Nesib was born around 1856 near Hurumu in Ethiopia. His parents named him Hiikaa Awaaji; or “translator”. At a young age, Hika was stolen from his widowed mother, renamed Nesib, and sold or stolen multiple times before being liberated by the vice-consul of the French Consulate, Werner Munzinger. The boy […]
Read MoreBy Ian Wilson I frequently see this sentiment expressed that we, as Christians, should “follow Jesus, not just the Bible” or that we should “unhitch ourselves from the Old Testament” or even that we “follow Jesus, not Paul”. In Roman Catholic or Orthodox circles, I hear it expressed as “Jesus established a church, not a […]
Read MoreBy Ian Wilson (G) Born in 1615, Richard Baxter lived in a tumultuous time in British history. In a time when it might have been easy to be an extremist, Baxter always sought to seek peace, and hold the middle ground between the warring factions. He was fond of saying “In necessary things, unity; in […]
Read MorePhoto by Stavrialina Gontzou on Unsplash By Cordelia Fitzgerald As I’m sure you have at some point, today I drove past a sign that said something to the effect of “Hate is not welcome here.” A laudable sentiment. Accompanying the text, however, were various rainbows and images that made it quite clear that the sign […]
Read MoreBy T.K. Wilson Not much is known about the early life of Paul the Confessor of Constantinople. We first learn of him as he was elected bishop of Constantinople, over the violent objections of the Arian minority on the council. However, Paul wasn’t bishop for very long. The Emperor of Constantinople at the time was […]
Read MorePhoto by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplashed By Christian Jordan Michael Wright (G) There is no talking our way out of the meaning crisis. What is the meaning crisis? There are dozens of answers. Personally, if I’m speaking with someone who already shares a good deal of my world view, I might point to the […]
Read MoreBy Ian Wilson (G) Not much is known about the childhood of the Belgian Protestant Reformer, Guy de Bres. He was born in the year 1522, in the Belgian town of Hainaut. While nothing is known of his father’s profession, he was apparently prosperous enough to afford to send Guy to university, where he first […]
Read Morephoto by Jan Kopriva on Unsplashed As I’m sure we all know by now, Adam and Eve did not continue on in perfection and bliss forever; they fell. What (or who) caused them to fall? Why did they eat from the tree? And who exactly was the Serpent? Now the serpent was more subtle than […]
Read More(Photo by Ryan Stone on Unsplashed) By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall That we may wander o’er this bloody field To book our dead, and then to bury them –Henry V, IV.vii.75-76 Some say this day began As a memorial to the Confederate dead Some say this day began As a memorial to the Union […]
Read MorePhoto by David Adamson on Unsplash By Cordelia Fitzgerald Honestly, it’s rather impressive that the commencement speech at a little college of 2,300 students has gained so much press (for comparison Yale has 17,000 and Notre Dame 13,000). Yes, the speaker was a member of that almost deified organization known as the NFL. More importantly, […]
Read More(Image by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash) Ian Wilson (G) It’s easy to get hung up on the details of Genesis while missing the deeper meaning – that our God is a God of order. He is a God who places everything in it’s proper place, who sets a limit for the season and calls the […]
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By Sarah Levesque … Giulia Salzano was born on October 13, 1846, in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Caserta, Italy. Her father, Diego Salzano, died when Giulia was only four years old, and she was taken in by the Sisters of Charity, with whom she stayed until she was fifteen years old.
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Sitting for an hour at an outside café / Sipping coffee and writing verse and, yes / Discreetly noting elegant mademoiselles – / I never got to Paris, but my daughter did
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