Cross Purposes

  A former pastor said once that it was possible to receive the Holy Spirit the way we might answer a friend's knock at the door. "...

  " All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in t...

  I'm reading Franciscan Richard Rohr's short book about evil, The World , The Flesh , and The Devil (2021), and benefitting fr...

  The idea I've long held of what scripture says about wisdom...and it says a lot...is that wisdom is essentially a moral quantity.  I ...

  There can be no end to the depth of wisdom contained in His Name, when God commanded Moses to tell the Israelites that " I AM " ...

  The problem of salvationism, the "evangelical" emphasis on being saved, is that it answers the question "Where does God fit...

  “Look among the nations ! Watch !  Be horrified! Be frightened speechless !  For I am accomplishing a work in your days— You would not bel...

  There are reports a soon-to-be-published book will claim that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat down with th...

  I'm not enough of Roman historian to know : but have to imagine that when Roman Christians began using the "Anno Domini," it...

  I'm a patriotic person. If "patriotism" means loving one's country, I do.  How could I not love the only land and peopl...