“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Sunday Scripture: Israel Demands a King

Suggested by our friend The Male Brain – this is highly relevant in the current day and age, given the rate at which people around the world are very happily giving up their freedoms with basically no resistance to unworthy little kings and queens who...

Sunday Scripture: Forgive the Sinner

Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by...

Sunday Scripture: The Preeminence of Christ

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he...
Domain Query: Blood Guilt

Domain Query: Blood Guilt

Reader and friend JohnC posed a VERY long comment with a question buried in there… somewhere… about whether or not Pontius Pilate was guilty of condemning Jesus Christ to death, and whether he felt any guilt about casting out Our Lord to His death. I...

Sunday Scripture: The Resurrection

Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His...
Domain Query: It’s a Saturnalia Miracle!

Domain Query: It’s a Saturnalia Miracle!

Longtime reader and friend of the blog Kapios pitched in with some interesting questions to my Pesach post: Do you follow any particular denomination or do you think denominations is a divide and conquer tactic?Also what do you make of the Easter and Christmas...

Sunday Scripture: The Plot to Kill Jesus

Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this...

Sunday Scripture: Do Not Be Anxious

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor...
Domain Query: Hope and Faith

Domain Query: Hope and Faith

While there is no specific reader question that prompted this particular podcast, I wanted to take some time to give thanks to those who have offered prayers on my behalf and for my family. To be clear – everyone’s fine, it’s all good, but thanks to...

Sunday Scripture: Jesus Cleanses a Leper

And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean....