Will the Meek Really Inherit the Earth?
It sure doesn’t seem so. This “Beatitude” in Mathew’s gospel is arguably one of the hardest to accept because the evidence for the opposite is so compelling. The arrogant, the ...
Jesus and Me?
Just before the turn of the 20th century, a child was born to a Brooklyn, NY, family that was “solid, patriotic, and middle class,” says Wikipedia. The child’s father was a sportswriter who ...
A Bias against the Bible?
When I was a kid, maybe 10-12 years old, I sometimes during the summer went to a weekday Mass at our parish church (Kids in our parochial school all attended ...
The Will of God?
Traditional Christianity has always emphasized the need to “do God’s will.” Fine, but if God exists, he/she is “out there” somewhere, so hidden that I don’t have a clue how ...
The Miracle of Existence
The fact that the earth exists among the unimaginable vastness of the universe is nothing short of miraculous. And human reproduction – that each human female has about 300,000 eggs ...
Who’s Entitled to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?
A few years ago, on a trip to Ireland, I learned more about my great grandmother, Mary Gardiner, who lived in County Clare, in a rural area between the towns ...