by Larry Greenfield | Aug 12, 2011 | Opinion
Jesus tells us, via the Gospels of Matthew (15) and Mark (7), that what defiles us as humans is not what goes into our mouths as physical food, what is then digested for nourishment, and what finally comes out of our bodies as waste. No, what defiles us as human...
by Larry Greenfield | Aug 5, 2011 | Opinion
Were Peter and the disciples just peeved? Rather than inviting them to share an intimate dinner together on the lakeshore with just barely enough bread and fish for their party, Jesus had made it a humongous banquet for about 10,000 or so people (the 5,000 men plus...
by Larry Greenfield | Jul 22, 2011 | Opinion
Those pushing for small government these days are doing a good job of keeping their utter joy under wraps. Most of the time, the rest of us see these folks lamenting the growth of government. They make pledges not to raise taxes or the debt ceiling as a way of...
by Larry Greenfield | Jul 8, 2011 | Opinion
Confusion about the “real” meaning of Jesus’ familiar (and evidently authentic) parable of the sower and the seed could have a simple explanation: He was just having a bad day on all sorts of fronts. After all, most of that day had been spent being...
by Larry Greenfield | Jun 24, 2011 | Opinion
Given the sex scandals that seem to plague American political life – to say nothing about the preoccupation with sex in American popular culture – who would be surprised if most Americans would think the Apostle Paul was referring to sex when he crusaded against...
