Category: Theology & Scripture

This is a guest post by J. M. M. Wahl. While this article may, at times, come across as largely theoretical and abstract, when I wrote it, the issue had never felt more fresh and relevant, as I had been struggling with the idea of forgiveness for some months, and just in the last week…

I wrote in a previous post about my deep appreciation of the arrival of spring. All around us, signs of Resurrection are near: the warmer air, the budding leaves, and as I likewise noted, the significant drop in cynicism that we tend to see at the beginning of the spring season. And yet, for anyone…

“Salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22). Jesus Christ makes this truth clear in the Gospel of John, as He famously converses with the Samaritan woman at the well. Like much of John’s Gospel, there are scenes contained in the Fourth Gospel that are not present in the three Synoptics, this scene being one of…

Spring is here and with it, Resurrection. It is of course fitting that the Church (in the northern hemisphere anyway) celebrates Easter during the beginning of the spring season. All around us we see life, revival, even in the images of nature. Animals are returning from their hibernation, and the cynicism of people seems to…

We live in a time in history where science has become, in a sense, a religion.  I have noticed a growing tendency for people to say, “it is science!,” implying that a scientific truth can be trusted with absolute certainty.  At least in the Western world, the pursuit of science has increasingly taken the place…