It was a successful first day of school. I attended my Applied Human Sciences class [Interpersonal Communication]. It was a round robin sort of class, no desks and lots of laughter. I like the professor. She is going to be good. I saw a friend on the shuttle bus who briefed me on the class - since h...

I got my grades for the Fall Semester. I did really well. I am very pleased with my grades, I worked hard for them. I looked at the grade distributions, and for my Pastoral Ministry class, sadly 4 people failed the course, out of a total of 16 students in the class. I just can’t imagine how yo...

I am in the thick of formulating an academic scholarly paper for my Pastoral Ministry class. My paper is a precursor for my practicum next semester. And I am writing on the subject of the Pastoral Care of Gay young people and what their parents can do for them, what not to do to them, and how spirit...

What is the task of a historian? To define history. For Luke he looks at Greco-Roman and Jewish historiography. There is no distinction between history and the writing of history. Hermeneutics: interpretation. Heresay, language (the use of language tells us that something happened). The text is writ...

Sometimes I just want to wander around aimlessly by the shore. But we live too far away from the water for me to be able to do that. So It’s 4:43 a.m. and I am still up, I was reading from one of my books, and it got me to thinking about self. Are we who we present ourselves to be? Do we stand...

Barangaroo, Sydney Harbour Thursday, 17 July 2008 Source: Vatican.va site World Youth Day Celebrations Dear Young People, What a delight it is to greet you here at Barangaroo, on the shores of the magnificent Sydney harbour, with its famous bridge and Opera House. Many of you are local, from the out...

Originally posted on: Walking with Integrity Tonight the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre featured the UK premier of For The Bible Tells Me So, “a provocative documentary about the chasm that separates gay life and Christianity today,� produced by Dan Karslake. It was followed ...

The Bible’s witness to God’s pursuit of human beings is a story of relationship, and therefore it is messy. It is not ordered by straight lines of logic, but meanders with the erratic circumstances of particular human beings who respond in differing ways to the call of God upon their liv...

Seeing the Bible Afresh: In point of fact, we can often use the Bible in ways that stifle spiritual life or even destroy the soul. This happened to any number of people who walked with Jesus, heard him teach, and saw him exercise the power of the kingdom of God. For many, their very study of Scriptu...

A reading from the Gospel of Mark: 10:17-27 The Rich Young Man As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “...