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It’s All About Me

It was sometime in August when, listening to a daily Ignatian meditation, I came to see that the parables may not actually be about...

The Life of the Land: A Cautionary Tale

By Mark Clavier Once upon a time… …there was a palace of incomparable splendor, more resplendent than any palace that had been seen before. In the...

Parables, Power, and Perseverance

Mark 4:1-6:29 By Jonathan Turtle In chapters four through six of Mark’s Gospel, the reader is introduced to the purpose of Christ’s parables, the nature of...

Reconsidering the Parables of a “Marginal Jew”

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables By John P. Meier  Yale University Press xiii + 441 pp...

Who is my neighbor?

The point of the parable is that the person who shows mercy to me is my neighbor.

Praying the “Our Father” with Rembrandt

To pray the Our Father with Rembrandt is to find yourself praying it in a way you hope never to stop.

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