Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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When Jesus makes reference to something known as “The Law,” He is referring to perhaps the central concept of the Jewish faith, and for us as His followers, of our faith. We could go on for hours describing the nuance of The Law, or Torah and what it means. But the best way to describe…
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It is normal today to say we live in an abnormal time. We think everything is damn confusing. Or not at all. We speak out of one side of our mouths that this is a time of all this conflicting data, but ideologues speak with such consistency and confidence. We recognize complex problems and we…
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In Sunday’s gospel story, we had the famous pair of questions Jesus asks: Who do people say that I am? Who do you say that I am? As I was writing about this idea for our parish newsletter, I realized something important. These two questions have two more hidden questions, or more precisely, two hidden…
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It’s old news now, but an idea has been nipping at me for some time. There was a surprising dust up involving the comedian Daniel Tosh and a blogger that responded to a joke about rape. There are many details about the two that are almost irrelevant to the story because it became a story…