Noah, the Movie: powerful, intriguing and provocative Perhaps I was so eager to see Russell Crowe’s new movie, Noah, because of the critical unanimity. Among a few very conservative Muslims, evangelical Christians, and Roman Catholics, this was a study in misanthropy and a perversion of Genesis with an extreme left-wing environmentalist agenda. And then there […]
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The samaritan woman- St. Fantine When Christ meets her, she’d had 5 husbands and is currently living with a man. In the eastern Catholic Church, she became St. Fantine. Fantine is the mother of Cosette in Les Miserables. Victor Hugo’s tragic story we know because of the splendid-at times celestial- music from the Broadway play
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People you’d like to meet in heaven I think a book by this name was published a few years back, or maybe it was a movie. Regardless, I think about that question now and then, and perhaps we all do. When I read something that prompts me to consider this possibility, I get stuck on
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Why this useless murmuring? Why this tumult among nations, among peoples this useless murmuring? They arise, the kings of the earth, princes plot against the Lord and his Anointed. These are the first 4 lines of psalm 2, words I am sure I’ve read before but only today, on this first Sunday of Advent, do
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Cheap grace: sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But even a cursory reading of Diedrich Bonhoeffer reveals it’s itchy truth. Germany: the land of Luther, Wagner, Nietzche, Hitler, Rahner, and Ratzinger. The list combines the very noblest and the most bestial of the minds and hearts of man. And there was also a man called
Our battles are many. Strange title for an article? Perhaps, but fitting to my life both before and after I found faith. Years ago, I walked into a southwestern boutique store not far from where I lived in Houston, Texas, and saw a painting that seemed to dominate the store. The profiles of three Indians
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Thinking about Martha I have been thinking about Martha for years…and the comparison with her sister Mary. My sympathies invariably lie with Martha because I have a very clear image of what she is dealing with. Tradition tells us that Jesus did not travel alone,. Quite the contrary; from what we guess, there were generally
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