by Larry Greenfield | Jul 23, 2010 | Opinion
In Luke’s version of Jesus giving the disciples a model of how to pray to God, the itinerant rabbi seems to assume – for that particular society in which he proclaimed and demonstrated the coming reign of God – an understanding of humanity’s moral...
by Larry Greenfield | Jul 8, 2010 | Opinion
I grant that Jesus didn’t include aid to the unemployed in his litany about the sheep on the right hand and goats on the left, as recorded in Matthew 25. But, as a graduate school professor of mine once said about things Jesus reportedly didn’t say:...
by Larry Greenfield | Jun 27, 2010 | Opinion
Freedom, as St. Paul reminds us, has its temptations – serious ones, in fact. Like the temptation to bite, devour and consume one another found in Galatians 5:15. That’s pretty much where we are in the United States, now that we’re no longer flush with...
by Larry Greenfield | Jun 15, 2010 | Opinion
One could get the impression from the story about Jesus eating in the home of the Pharisee named Simon (Luke 7:3-50) that this was going to be a pleasant dinner party, a break from the sparring that kept the Pharisees and Jesus apart, yet persistently and...
by Larry Greenfield | Jun 2, 2010 | Opinion
Jesus is hardly the hero in the story from Luke’s and Matthew’s Gospels about the centurion (Roman army officer) in Capernaum who sends Jewish representatives to Jesus to seek healing for a favored slave. (See Luke 7:1-10 and Matthew 8:5-13.) And Jesus...
