Tantalizing notions of long life, even immortality, have always been part of human consciousness, recurring in religion, literature, cinema, music, even consumer goods.The opening chapters of the Old ...
The Bible contains a wealth of wisdom for the modern day pilgrim. While it’s easy to focus on the New Testament and the life ...
Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.
Thanks for joining “What the New Testament Says About Pride.” If you missed last week’s study about the consequences of pride in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, take five minutes to catch up. Loyal ...
In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...
Black History Month helps us reflect on how our nation’s racial past informs our present—to acknowledge the enduring effects ...
The religious left today claims that Jesus was a socialist who was against private property and any kind of economic arrangement that smacks of capitalism. An ...
Could a 10% flat tax — based on traditional notions of tithing — bring more sanity and equity to the U.S. tax code?
The chapter division, as found in the Bible today ... Santes Pagnino (1528), and his system is still in use in most of the books of the Old Testament. The modern verse division in the New ...
It is ironic to consider that God can get by with a 10% tithe, but our government cannot get by with the current tax code. A ...
Prayer changes things. Many of us have experienced the transforming power of prayer. We have prayed for our hearts to be healed, to forgive, or be forgiven. We have prayed ...
Under a bright February sun, the streets of Florence echoed with unity and remembrance as the Pat Gibson Hye-Moore Black ...