Christ the Apothecary
There is a minor tradition in art of depicting Christ as the Divine Pharmacist, an Apothecary of the Soul, mixing and compounding the medicine for mankind. In this illumination from a 16th century...
View ArticleGhosts in the Bible: The Old Testament
Ghosts posed a problem for the early Church because they seemed to reflect a holdover of pagan belief and superstition. Yet reliable witnesses continued to report encounters with what to appeared to be...
View ArticleGhosts in the Bible: The New Testament
There are no ghosts in the New Testament. We do, however, find the language of spirits and references to death than can illuminate the subject. When we read passages such as Matthew 8:22 (”Let the dead...
View ArticleFour Artifacts From the Time of Jesus
This is a short and interesting little video in which Marc Turnage, director of the Center for Holy Lands Studies for The General Council of the Assemblies of God in Springfield, Missouri, uses...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo and a Broken Europe
How broken is Europe? This broken: That’s their response to the murder of twelve of their fellow journalists at the hands of jihadists. You cannot measure my indifference to the wholly imaginary thing...
View ArticleThe Three Pillars of Lent
We meet again, Lent, my old foe. This time I will have you! I joke. I love Lent, at least since I’ve learned to meet it not as my Everest to be conquered, but as 40 days in the desert with Christ....
View ArticleEmbracing Mystery
We must not fear the unknown in our faith, but rather embrace it. There is no reason to be ashamed by the inscrutable aspects of God. Instead, we should point to these very mysteries as proof of His...
View ArticleThe Judas Tree, And Other Legends of the Betrayer
This is cercis siliquastrum, the Judas Tree: It is, according to legend, the type of tree from which Judas hanged himself, and its once-white blossoms blushed with shame to be part of such a terrible...
View Article14 Reasons I Stay Catholic #WhyRemainCatholic
1. Jesus is Lord The incarnation is the pivot point of history. God became man so that man could become God. Once you understand and accept this it’s like a thunderclap. I spent a long time not...
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