Why did the Romans collect taxes? To pay their army that kept their huge empire, that covered Europe, the Middle East and the northern coast of Africa, at peace. An army whose legionnaires came from all corners of Europe … And for those legionnaires, the army was their family. Those Roman legionnaires, in Jesus’s time, may have found keeping the peace in Israel a little irritating: the Jews tended to be argumentative. They were a ‘stiff necked’ people … [To read more, click on title]
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Come to the Banquet!
Bible scholars have counted between thirty and fifty Gospel parables (depending on the definition of a parable they have used). Jesus did explain that even though they were simple stories they would be incomprehensible to those who chose not to believe … [To read more, click on title]
Who do I say that I am?
Did you notice that Jesus turned his theological question into a personal query? “Who do you say that I am?”
… Perhaps it is easier to turn the question around and ask ourselves “Who do I say that I am?” … [To read more, click on title]
For once, a good news story
I saw this gentleman, Tim, in Boston’s Logan Airport with the sister he’d been visiting. It appeared he was both deaf and blind, as I observed her signing into his hand for him to feel her words. When he came aboard the plane he had been assigned the middle seat of my row … [To read more, click on title]
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