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Thursday, April 16th, 2009For those of you in need of a good laugh . . . watch how Stephen Colbert slices through author Bart Ehrman’s flimsy theories about contradictions in the Bible. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Bart Ehrman colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest Colbert is more than a [...]
St. Paul’s Example
Thursday, April 9th, 2009What do the Scriptures tell us about St. Paul’s personality and temperament? A lot more than I realized–and it’s not all pretty. Over at The Catholic Thing, Pete Brown (who worked in CUF’s Catholic Responses department a few years back) gets us started with a bang: Paul called the Galatians “stupid,” (Gal 3:1) and then [...]
The Floods Came
Friday, March 13th, 2009I came across the following scriptural meditation by Rev. Herbert Madinger while searching through the Lay Witness archives. It seemed a fitting mid-Lent exhortation–Lent surely being a component of the “rigorous training in advance” of which he speaks–as well as a commentary on our own times. “Every one then who hears these words of mine [...]
Other Gospels?
Monday, August 25th, 2008A couple Catholic school teachers recently asked me how much weight we should give, if any, to the “other gospels” out there, such as the Gospel of Thomas or the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Usually when I’m asked about “apocryphal” works, it’s in connection with defending the authenticity of the so-called “deuterocanonical” books of the [...]
Protestant “Verses” Catholic?
Monday, August 18th, 2008A Catholic school teacher recently posed this question to me: “Protestants always have signs, t-shirts, and the like with John 3:16, so it seems that for them that is the one definitive verse of the Bible. If you had to sum up the Catholic faith in one Bible verse or passage, what would it be?” [...]
Teaching the Teachers
Thursday, August 7th, 2008I want to apologize to our readers for the lack of new material on the CUF blog this week. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week I was teaching an intensive introductory course on Scripture to some Catholic school teachers here in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, so I just didn’t have the [...]
God’s Life Savings
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008“O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you” (1 Tim. 6:20). This sort of language is a recurring theme of St. Paul as he instructs his successor Timothy. In fact, St. Paul tells Timothy that “what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach [...]
Parents as First Bible Study Leaders
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008One of my favorite sections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is nos. 2221-31, which magnificently sets forth the duties of parents toward their children. I often mess things up in practice, but after prayerful reading of the Catechism there should be little doubt as to the theory: As parents we are called to [...]
Pilate Light
Thursday, April 17th, 2008In St. John’s account of the Passion, proclaimed every Good Friday, we hear the dramatic exchange between Our Lord and Pontius Pilate in which Jesus makes this remarkable statement: “For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth” (Jn. 18:37). Just one day–or four chapters–earlier, Jesus [...]
Food for Thought
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008I don’t know about you, but I have found the daily Mass readings for the second week of the Easter season to be overflowing with food for meditative prayer and daily Christian living. I thought I would share ten verses that have been especially meaningful to me this week, realizing of course that I’m only [...]
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