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Question: What do the anagogical sense and a committed relationship / marriage have in common? Let’s explore the answer… In our modern way world, we have almost universal literacy; the lowest poverty rate in history; immediate access to a colossally powerful, ever expanding network of information (A.K.A. the Internet); sweeping technological advances in just about…

When thinking about the four senses of interpreting Scripture, If the term “moral sense” immediately conjures up thoughts of being puritanically righteous; or if it makes you think, “Uh oh, I better be good!”, or “This is the part where I’ll probably get my hand slapped!” – then welcome to the world of being…human! After…

If you have ever had a conversation with your friends, family, or colleagues about reading the Bible, you may have heard at least one person in your life say, “The Bible isn’t meant to be taken literally”, or “The Bible is just a lot of allegory and parables.”  Or some of your more scholarly acquaintances…

From the Catechism (109) of the Catholic Church: “In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their word.” Keep the above quote in mind…

Each time I have an idea for a blog, I ask myself the following questions: Who is the audience? Is it a topic, in this age of information saturation, that has already been so thoroughly vetted, I am just proverbially reinventing the wheel? Will the topic make sense and be a helpful resource? Or will…

It has been about 20 years now since Eminem first informed the world he is the “Real Slim Shady”, that “all other Slim Shadys are just imitating”, and that he was (or still is?) waiting on the answer to this question “Won’t the Real Slim Shady please stand up?” And while the song is a…

As most people familiar with Scott Hahn know, Hahn has been a bastion of Catholic apologetics and teaching since his conversion to Catholicism in the mid 1980’s. Coincidentally, I just recently happened to listen (again) to his conversion story on Matt Radd’s YouTube channel, Pints with Aquinas. I also recently happened to watch a tour…

Those of you who are generally familiar with the history of Christianity know that, within the past 500 years, Christianity has splintered into approximately 30,000 sects. No, not that is not a joke. There are more flavors of Christianity now than Baskin Robbins could have ever hoped to match with ice cream flavors. Religion in…

Once upon a time, I was an atheist. Not just an atheist who simply did not believe in God / a higher power / whatever you want to call it: I fell into the camp of “new atheist”. But what do I mean by “new atheist”? The term first became popular within a few years…

How many times have you heard someone say, “I am not a fan of organized religion”? Or “I am spiritual but *not* religious”?  Or the usual criticisms about the Catholic Church: “It’s dogmatic, it has a lot of doctrines, it is ‘patriarchal’”? Those views have unfortunately become rather popular in our Western society. And they…