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Month: May 2021

The Enduring Practicality of Philosophy

The Enduring Practicality of PhilosophyThe alarm clock sounds and we rise. We are, after all, bipeds and belong to the biological classification of Homo erectus. We are not dormitive creatures, since that term does not capture our full nature. Sleep is for restoration; it is not our destination. We are rational beings and begin the task of getting dressed […]

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Prospects of a New Religion

David Carlin: Secularists haven’t settled on one pseudo-religion, but they are still trying this and trying that and trying something else.

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Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

We see the tough Jesus, quite different from the gentle and compassionate Christ. He curses the fig tree that bore no fruits and he drives away the peddlers in the temple. There must have been good reasons for him to act in this manner. The temple which should be a place of prayer has become […]

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Accessibility of the Trinity

Too often Christian believers are prone to regard the mystery of the Trinity as a piece of theological trivia, with little practical relevance for their lives. “The God I believe in is three-persons-in-one-essence, or so I am told,” we might hear ourselves saying. “It’s weird, but it’s the way it is, and we may as well just accept it and move on.”

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#10123 Open Forum – Jim Blackburn

Questions Covered:

05:17 – The thief on the cross was told he would be in paradise, but he died before Pentecost and was not baptized. Is paradise separate from the kingdom of heaven and did he make it to paradise? 
16:01 – If you go out f…

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