Sixth Sunday of Easter Reading 1 Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them. With one accord, the crowds paid attention to what was said by...
Reading for March 27, 2011
Third Sunday of Lent Reading 1 Ex 17:3-7 In those days, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have...
Odd Thought on “The Rapture”
When a religious person of extreme views says that he’s going to burn a Koran, the media speedily descends on him with universal derision. On rare occasions, a child suffers or dies because parental faith...
Stopping Tornados?
If we pull the plug so that water drains, a whirlpool appears with a funnel-shape, just like a tornado. If we stick our finger in the funnel, it collapses. We know we can’t stick our...
Conversions
A recent reading, Acts, 2;41, told of the early disciples’ work. In one day, “3,000 people came to believe, many of them rabbis.” That fits into Catholic Fundamentalism’s theory of history, which goes something like...
Absalom and David. Caiaphas and Christ
Most of us are familiar with David, the great King of the twelve Hebrew Tribes. His beloved son, Absalom, was so envious of his father’s position that he planned and executed a revolution. In the...
The Garden is Being Weeded More Quickly Than Ever
Today, our local paper reported three births and seven deaths. Two of the three births were to mothers and fathers who have different last names. It is not likely that many such children will grow...
Reading for May 22, 2011
Fifth Sunday of Easter Reading 1 Acts 6:1-7 As the number of disciples continued to grow, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. So the Twelve...
Are Ying and Yang enough?
Taoists have summed up the cosmos with forces of life and death, existence and annihilation, with ying and yang. They have a clever symbol, finless fish in black and white, chasing each other through eternity....
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”
Is found in a poem by Robert Frost. Not nearly as subtle, Catholic Fundamentalists say with simple bluntness, “There is something that hates everything.” Every structure is faced with things is trying to destroy it....