As we prepare this Lenten season, let us walk through whatever wilderness we travel, knowing that Jesus walks with us, sure ...
If all we had were the gospels, if that were all we knew about this moment in the development of Christianity as a religion, we might think that the attribution of apocalyptic hope to Jesus came ...
Does the story of Jesus Christ steal from the historical pagan gods such as Mithra, Dionysus, Horus, and Krishna? Several books have been written that have insisted to have evidence of such claims.
The attempt to project contemporary politics or our own aspirations onto such a sacred figure is always problematic.
One is that this is Jesus' symbolic overturning of the Temple itself, the rejection of the Temple, that is to say the rejection of Judaism... in favor of a new religion that he's about to introduce.
When we oppose the actions we see around us, we can't give in to the bullies and tyrants, we must offer alternatives and work ...