July 31st is the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus (the “Jesuits”). The Jesuits are a religious order, officially founded in 1540 and currently numbering over 18,000 […]
Month: July 2014
The Imitation of Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles
Today, July 22, Christians in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches celebrate the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. One of my favorite anecdotes about St. John XXIII happens to be a joke told by him […]
Returning to Israel and Its King: Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew
The stereotype about most Catholics is true: we don’t know our Bible, especially the Hebrew Bible. Because of this, the Gospel of Matthew poses a challenge, because it depends so explicitly upon the history, narrative conventions, […]
“The Canticle of the Turning”: The Gospel of Luke and Radical Imagination
If I had an opportunity to sit down and chat with one of the four evangelists, I’d pick Luke. I just find his gospel so riveting and his characters so compelling. Any child somewhat familiar […]
The Most Difficult Words of Jesus
As Vacation Bible School continues here at Daily Theology, I would like to turn our attention to the Gospel of Luke–in particular, to a passage I like to call “the most difficult words of Jesus.” In this […]
Catherine Tekakwitha and the Strangeness of Holiness
Today is the feast of the newly canonized (2012) Saint Catherine Tekakwitha. In much of this post I’m relying for the historical facts and some of the theoretical discussion upon the excellent book Mohawk Saint: […]
Fear or Faith?
At my first communion, I received a picture Bible. All the stories were told through comic strips, like the Bible version of Rex Morgan, M.D. Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael, Isaac, Leah, Rachel, Jacob, Moses, Gideon, […]
When Disciples Fail
Mark’s gospel, long overlooked in early Christian tradition, experienced something of a resurgence in the late nineteenth century when biblical scholars came to the conclusion that Mark, long believed to be the second gospel written, […]
Lessons on God from an Atheist
By Meg Stapleton Smith The essence of my teaching has always had much less to do with concrete facts about faith, and much more to do with developing an interpersonal relationship with God. My goal […]
Synoptic So What?
DIFFERENCE In Tuesday’s Vacation Bible School post, Amanda Osheim gave […]
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