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ehr. ma. garsh. the Pope blessed a parrot.
Well, God blessed the birds too folks 🙂 … Read your Bibles. I think Genesis chapter 1 is in the protestant Bible, right?: 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the…
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“He shall be called a Nazorean.” — no prophet ever
Ok, ok. I’m just having a little fun with my literalist friends and others who accuse the Catholic Church of not following “the clear teaching of scripture.” Â Today’s lectionary reading includes Matthew 2:23, which reads as follows: He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets…
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The 10 book meme – my version
This is my version of the meme going around on Facebook (not that anyone asked) to name 10 books that have stuck with you without thinking too much about it: Ecclesiastes – unknown Night – Elie Wiesel The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle Introduction to Christianity – Joseph Ratzinger (or Truth Tolerance…
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Audio from talk on Old Testament violence at Holy Ghost
For those who were interested, below is a link to the audio from my talk on violence in the Old Testament this past Monday at Holy Ghost. It’s very echo-y since it was in the parish hall and the train passed twice, but you should be able to hear it okay. Old Testament Violence (right-click/ctrl-click…
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That’s Deep, Deep
Sometimes repetition of a word has an intensifying effect. Â We have examples of this in English: 1. (Me to my kids sometimes): If you don’t start acting right, we’re going to have a big, big problem. 2. The pope has resigned. It’s a sad, sad day. I recently came across my favorite example of this…
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Sitting, Dwelling and the Unworthiness of the Messenger
There is a thread that runs through all of the lectionary readings for today. We see in Isaiah, Paul in 1 Corinthians and Peter in the Gospel reading the unworthiness of the messenger. This is evident in any number of ways in Isaiah 6, but one of the aspects of the reading I noticed is…
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Thinking about Psalm 19:4
I’ve been interacting with Kris over at Old School Script for the last day or so about Psalm 19:4, particularly the particle בלי toward the end of the verse.  Here was my last comment in my part of the exchange so far: Okay. So, I realize I was probably too brief and unclear above, but I…
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Bible Sense Lexicon on the Logos Blog
I’ve mentioned within the last week or so on this blog that I’ve been working as a part of a team on a tool called the Bible Sense Lexicon for Logos Bible Software. Â Yesterday, there was a post on the Logos Blog explaining one of the ways the tool could be used, namely getting the…
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Then the Lord was all like, “Come no closer!”
I posted this thought on Facebook this weekend – that it was fun to think about translating vayomer as “and he was like” or “and he was all like” (for those he don’t know much Hebrew, this form is often translated “and he said” or something similar).  That popped in my head after a recent visit to…