Jul 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
Retired, I have become an armchair criminologist, often lost in reading the papers or in thought about 20 or so years of experience and memories as a Canadian prison chaplain. Not too many require my services now that I am an out-to-pasture prison chaplain critical of...
Jul 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
From the days of the church fathers, who identified demons with unruly human passions, to the modern recovery movement, which speaks metaphorically of ‘wrestling with our demons,’ a tradition exists that describes ‘demons’ as real but impersonal. Theologians and...
Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The phrase “class warfare” may be taken as a descriptive term to identify the power dynamics of politics and economics. “Class” refers most often to the gap between the “haves” who enjoy political leverage and economic advantage over the “have-nots” who are vulnerable...
Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
From the earliest days of Christianity, the Gospels’ resemblance to certain myths has been used as an argument against Christian faith. When pagan apologists for the official pantheism of the Roman empire denied that the death-and-resurrection myth of Jesus differed...
