Christianity
October 21, 2009
- God is one rocking muse. Some writer or the other uses religion as allegory, metaphor, reinterpretation. Some religious group or the other is offended. Jose Saramago who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature has written a book Cain that has been described as an ironic retelling of the Biblical story of Cain, Adam and Eve's son who killed his younger brother Abel.I assume since he has titled the ...
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October 15, 2009
- Book Notes: (1) How to Believe in God and (2) Sinners Welcome (1) How to Believe in God is a book that sees the word God as only a word—a word, nonetheless that expresses universal presence and love extended to all people, believers and non-believers alike. A presence, too, the only presence that knows why things are the way they are. This is a book for the devout of any faith who may ...
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September 9, 2009
- Repentance is above all the heart of our existence, as it is the essence of our relationship with God, and thus of our Salvation. Called to emulate Christ in our lives, we repent through the words of The Lord's Prayer; "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." That says it all. Our enemies are wrong, but so are we. Our need to repent is natural, an ...
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August 9, 2009
- Fear is the mind killer, Frank Herbert wrote. However, fear is but half the equation of domination. The second half is hopelessness.We saw, clearly demonstrated in the early years of this century, the ease with which fear and hopelessness saturates freedom.The insane activities of a single man ignited another's drive for revenge, which bled into the thoughts of the people. Led by his fanatic need ...
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July 3, 2009
- With the passing of Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy along with the dissolution of the Center for Reclaiming America and the Center for Christian Statesmanship, the issue has arisen once again as to whether or not conservative Evangelicals should participate in political activity. Since things have not gotten any better and if anything continued their downward spiral since the advent of the ...
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May 19, 2009
- The Torah commands a positive mitzvah that we make known to our offspring from generation to generation all that transpired there [Mt. Sinai], both visually and audibly. There is a very great purpose to this mitzvah. –Maimonides You will not exactly find a verse in the Bible which says, “On Shavuot (Pentecost), God appeared to Israel at Mt. Sinai and spoke the Ten Words.” The belief ...
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May 4, 2009
- In my 2008 book, Feast, written to help Christians understand the holidays of the Bible and gain appreciation for Jewish traditions, I led into the Shavuot chapter with a little anecdote from the early days of our marriage. We lived at that time in a little 400 square foot apartment in Chicago (Rogers Park):The oven in our little apartment just wasn’t big enough. Two tenths of an ephah is a ...
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May 3, 2009
- This appears to be Pentecost, two years from now. Brother Harold Camping is over 80; a radio prophet who says on this date The Lord Jesus Christ will return, ushering in the final Tribulation before the destruction of the world. I listen to him regularly. Do I believe him? I believe he believes what he is saying. He is a Biblical scholar. Some call him a false prophet.http://www.familyradio.com/ ...
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April 30, 2009
- I am writing this book online. I don't know the future it may have for publishing. It will be a book reflecting on the theological ideas of the Hebrew Bible. --Derek IntroductionTo say that the Hebrew Bible speaks is to reject simplistic ideas about the Bible. It is not a book which simply confirms religious institutions in their complacent activity. It is not either a rolled, leather scroll or ...
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April 21, 2009
- From Cross to Empty Tomb two potential symbols for a movement destined to change the world the first stood as an instrument of roman brutality domination and death an object lesson for those who challenged imperial dominion the second one with much softer insinuations signified maternal love womb-like deliverance rebirth redemption and resurrection the first masculine the other feminine ...
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