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This Sunday is Whit Sunday, the Festival of the Holy Ghost.
The gospel story of Our Lord’s Ascension into heaven is the last of the Resurrection appearances. We should be sure we understand what we are talking about here. The Resurrection of Christ is not about a dead body getting up and walking about.
One of the biggest problems in trying to discuss science and religion is that many Christians are ignorant of science and many scientists are clueless when it comes to the basics of philosophical reasoning
Look at Jacob for deceit and fraud – tricked his brother out of his inheritance
A moral outrage is being perpetrated in this country and it seems that hardly anyone is interested
All four Gospels say that the first witnesses to the resurrection were women
The Christian faith was, before the Reformation, the context for daily living. Everyone in Europe went by the church’s calendar of feasts and fasts.
Today’s gospel is the heart of the crisis. We enter on the holiest two weeks of the Christian Year. The Last Supper, the Betrayal, the Arrest, Show-trial and Crucifixion of Our Lord.
So what we actually find when we look into the Gospels is that Gentle Jesus Meek and Mild is a cliché and a caricature.