I’ve been reading The Gospel of Judas. It’s one of the different narratives about Jesus that the early church disliked and discarded. Irenaeus, who lived in the 2’nd century, mentions the book in his long diatribe against false teachings, but it had never been found until showing up in the hands of an Egyptian antiquities […]
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Believing Is Seeing
March 29, 2013 
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The world is not always as it seems. We learn to believe particular things, and those beliefs then shape the world that we see and experience. In ancient times, believing the earth was the center of the universe appeared perfectly reasonable. If you studied the sky, you could watch the sun rise in the east […]
Continue readingWe’re Not As Different As We Think
October 3, 2011 0 Comments
One of the unfortunate facts of life is that all human knowledge is based in the perception of difference. There is no subject without an object. There is no you and me without a distinction between you and me. We’re not aware of something until it calls attention to itself. I have cousins who are […]
Continue readingOne Nation Under God- Part 1
September 27, 2011 2 Comments
A billboard caught my attention today. Squeezed between signs for a real estate agency and a casino, there was one with white block letters superimposed over an American flag. It declared ONE NATION UNDER GOD to everyone passing east on Route 23. I immediately wondered what it meant. Who put it there and paid for […]
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