The Wandering Heretic

We have been established as citizens of Christ through our own baptism or that of our parents. Once we have been embedded within that relationship, we become linked to this body through the Church. Then, like ancient Israel, we enter a web of relationship that need to be defined. We have brothers [...]

 
Continuing on the “World Religion” cruise.

As I have been developing the cultural meaning of baptism, I found it related to the definition of “brother” in first century Mediterranean Culture. To be a “brother” was dependent upon one’s circle of relationships, the “in-group.” Those not in the “in-group” were, logically, members of the “out-group.” Those in the in-group [...]

Michael Spenser, the Internet Monk, issued a challenge for bloggers to devote a post (and maybe a picture) to a Bible that has a special place in our spiritual journey. I actually did such a post over a year ago when I reviewed the “Christian Community Bible: the Pastoral Edition.” In honor of [...]

This weekend I took some time off from watching the Cleveland Indians implode in order to do some community service for the children of Broadview Heights, Ohio. For my third year in a row, along with others from a local theatre group, I played a character in a wooded pathway called the “Enchanted Hollow.” [...]

The letters of the Apostles inform us that the history and writing of ethnic Israel are given us as wisdom. The Law should be our tutor to bring us to Christ. The history of that nation is given us as an example. Accordingly, the structure of that nation as a brotherhood of believers [...]

Ann Coulter’s interview with Donny Deustch, may have generated a lot of needless heat, but it did provide some light as well. It did point out that there remains some big question marks on the relationship between Christians and Jews, even some 2,000 years down the road. As I continue my series on [...]

 
Continuing on the “World Religion” cruise.

Ann Coulter, if anyone has not heard by now, caused some stir with her interview on Donny Deutsch’s cable television show. Coulter’s scorched earth style has served her well in writing columns and selling books. It did not do her so well in this interview. Ann had the audacity to proclaim that [...]

Update:
First Game: Indians 3 Red Sox 10
Second Game: Indians 13 Rex Sox 6 (Indians score 7 runs in the 11th!!!)
Third Game: Indians 4 Rex Sox 2
Fourth Game: Indians 7 Red Sox 3
Fifth Game: Indians 1 Red Sox 7
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