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IVEN The Church Fathers’ paralleling of Eros with Agape (as per our readings in Clement), this doesn’t bother the literalist in me.

AUL May be the first one to wrestle publicly with the question of difference between Jews (and Gentiles) who accept Jesus as Messiah and specifically Jews who reject Jesus as Messiah. He is doing so in to-day’s RCL readings (for Proper 15, Year A, RCL): Just as you were once disobedient to God but have [...]

OW SHOULD We deal with our enemies? Who are our enemies? Paul says it best – “we wrestle not with flesh and blood”. At worst there are people who consider themselves our enemies. But a Christian, wrote Will Campbell (I think) is the one who hasn’t any enemies.

was watching an episode from the second season of HBO’s Rome last night. The two main characters say their emotional goodbyes as one leaves for Alexandria with Marc Anthony. The departing man walks away and – quite literally – melts into a crowd of people on the streets of Rome. And I was stuck by [...]