The Wandering Heretic

In the cultural milieu that Jesus and Paul (and John the Baptist for that matter) operated, water baptism already had a specific place and practice. It already had a defined modus operandi. To quote William Tighe, as cited here: Gentiles who converted to Judaism—in the case of men by “proselyte baptism” followed by circumcision, in [...]

My pages are loading very slowly. I am aware of that situation. I do not know for certain what is going on. Unfortunately, neither does my Internet Host. We have tried moving my site to a different server with little or no effect. They found some “stuck processes,” whatever those are, on the server and [...]

In a previous post, I noted that if we assume that Scripture is both complete (or “sufficient”) and “clear,” then only one Biblical pattern for baptism is given to us; at least by way of example. A person is baptized with water upon his profession of faith. Here the Bible agrees with the Baptists. However, [...]

I love reading the blogsite relapsed catholic. The author, Kathie Shaidle, is a blunt spokesperson for conservatism and the abiding value of Christianity (usually of the Catholic variety). She does this in a country (Canada) that denigrates both. Since I think where Canada is today, the United States is sure to follow in a decade [...]

I recognize that the origin of Labor Day in the United States has more to do with the legitimization of the Labor Unions and not the value of labor in general. However, the two are not unrelated. At the time of the unions, the vast majority of the public was made up of “blue collar” [...]

  This set of panels starts my “World Religion” cruise joke. I noted a rather marked decay in my artwork on this set for some reason.