Happy Thanksgiving
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 ESV) Good luck with all that, Paul. My spiritual...
Category: Commentary
Things The Pope Thinks…
Pope Francis printed these “Beatitudes For Bishops” on cards and handed them to all the bishops attending a conference in the Vatican. While I am not a Roman Catholic, I think these provide a...
A Sense of the Sacred: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
A Sense of the Sacred It seems to me that we have lost a sense of the sacred. What I mean by this is that those who identified themselves as Christians through most of...
Things I Think…
1. This column gets harder and harder to write because I’m tired of thinking about the things we all have to think about…and when I do think about them and try to communicate what...
Things I Think…
1. I stepped in a big pile on Facebook over the weekend. Having done so, I decided to clean my shoes on other peoples rugs…metaphorically, of course. 2. What actually happened was...
Revisiting the Medieval Church: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Revisiting the Medieval Church Church History spans the continuum of two thousand years. As one who has taught and researched this specific field for over four decades, one thing has become abundantly clear to...
Things I Think…
1. Hundreds of members of the Q cult, some holding Christian signage…gathered in Dallas this morning to greet JFK Jr…. despite the fact that he’s been dead for 22 years. While Jr. didn’t show,...
Blessed: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Blessed If I were to honestly consider what it means to be a Christian, I would have to turn to the Beatitudes. They almost provide a portrait, one that has resonated down through the...
Things I Think…
I’ve spent most of the day trying to think of what I want to write here. This is generically a “Christian” blog trying to make some sort of online “Christian ” community. My...
Another Option: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Another Option I’ve been reading an interesting book by Caroline Bruzelius. Published by Yale University Press, it is entitled ‘Preaching, Building, and Burying. Friars in the Medieval City’. In the main, the book is...
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