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Explaining What We Believe

January 28, 2023 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

The priest, whose classmates had called him “the dumb ox” because of his huge stature and quiet demeanor, was Thomas Aquinas.

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Filed Under: Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: roman catholic, saints, theology

The Urgency of Today’s Holy Innocents

December 28, 2022 By Scott Robinson 2 Comments

We read in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew that when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Galilee (erroneously referred to in the gospels as “King Herod”), fearing for his throne, ordered the deaths all the male children in the Bethlehem area under the age of two.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: gun violence, Holy Innocents, racial justice, racism

More than a doubter

December 21, 2022 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

According to South Indian Christian tradition, Saint Thomas the Apostle set sail for the Malabar Coast (present-day Kerala) in 52 CE.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: evangelism, St. Thomas, The Gospel of John

I’m just glad he’s not gay.

December 2, 2022 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

And all day I have listened to partisan commentators insist that their own hateful and inflammatory rhetoric against the LGBTQIA+ community cannot be blamed for this incident, because the shooter is “one of their own.” Hypocrites! Viper’s brood!

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: gun violence, hate, love

She’s no “cut them a check” philanthropist

November 17, 2022 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

The Spirit of defiance of the social order continued amongst a number of wealthy, and often noble, women of the Middle Ages.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: saints, service

Martin of Tours

November 11, 2022 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

In 371, Martin was elected bishop of Tours. When an officer of the Imperial Guard arrived with a number of prisoners who were to be tortured and executed the next day, Martin intervened and secured their release.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: saints, War

It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Worse

October 14, 2022 By Scott Robinson 2 Comments

I don’t know what to ask of God that will make all this better.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: gun violence, hymns, Prayer

Being the Gospel Our Neighbors Read

October 4, 2022 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

“You may be all the Gospel your neighbor will ever read.” — Saint Francis of Assisi

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: evangelism, gospel, St. Francis

The Godless Creation

September 27, 2022 By Scott Robinson 2 Comments

I used to quote this passage to my students at the evangelical university where I taught for ten years. They always nodded in sage agreement, murmuring appreciatively—until I told them the verse wasn’t from the Bible. It’s an Islamic hadith, one of a large collection of wisdom sayings that complement and amplify the Qur’an.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Saints Tagged With: creation, godchild, St. Francis

Long Strange Trip

September 16, 2022 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

I do my best to take each day as it comes, doing whatever I can without assuming that however I feel on a given day is a durable condition.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: health, Psalms, woods

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