Advent marks the beginning of a period of preparation for the celebration of the birth of Christ, our Savior, at Christmas. Scripture advises us most urgently to make ourselves ready, to be on the alert, to turn aside from our sinful ways, and give more time to God in our lives. The prophet Isaiah tells…
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The Book Corner
The OTHER Catholics Remaking America’s Largest Religion Julie Byrne Columbia University Press 2016 In her book, The OTHER Catholics, author and Professor Julie Byrne elucidates in a very succinct and easy to read and understand manner, the very complex history of a branch of one of the world’s largest religions, Catholicism. The book’s sub-title is,…
What Gets Measured Gets Managed
The kelvin is a unit of measure for temperature based upon an absolute scale. It is one of the seven base units in the International System of Units and is assigned the unit symbol K. The Kelvin scale is named after the Belfast-born, Glasgow University engineer and physicist William Lord Kelvin (1824–1907), who wrote of…
Relentless Optimism
Think for a moment on those things that have changed our lives. Take your time. I’ll still be here when you’re done. Did you think of the soft smile of a child cradled in their mother’s arms? Maybe it was some other joyous occasion – a wedding, anniversary, or birthday celebration for a dear loved…
Is the New Testament a Gnostic Document?
There’s much deception in the air today from a few leading scholars regarding the New Testament text. This is a spin-off from the days of Rudolf Bultmann. The main target was the Gospel of John and its so-called Docetic influences upon the New Testament corpus as a whole. While this notion of proto-gnostism certainly had…
El amor es la fuerza que mueve el mundo…
Existen muchos escritos y mucho material acerca del amor o de lo que se intenta acercar a lo que es la realidad del amor. Pero en realidad, ¿tenemos idea de lo que es el amor? Justamente hoy he querido plasmar unas cuantas líneas sobre este tema, ya que el amor es el principio y el…
From the Editor
I posted a couple of weeks ago on Facebook about the middle. I wanted to expand upon that posting. The middle is often viewed with disdain. People say that if you sit on the fence, you are lukewarm or indecisive. The middle man is usually seen as being the one that gets the short end…