by: Ronald E. Glenn, editor If, despite numerous quotes from the Founding Fathers to the contrary, the United States is a Christian nation, and, though Christianity as it has generally come to be known is more influenced by Paul than anyone else, what Jesus says trumps what Paul says, and what the Bible says Jesus […]
September 27, 2013 | The Nation / By Frances Kissling “A new pope will change nothing. Not a woman, not an African, not a Latin, not a nice guy. In fact, if anything is to change, the first thing that needs to happen is no pope, and certainly not an infallible one.” So I said at […]
September 27, 2013 | Consortium News / By Gary G. Kohls Like the vast majority of Christian religious leaders of his era, Martin Luther, the Father of the Protestant Reformation, met the definition of a “Constantinian” Christian, that is a Christian who espoused theological teachings that were tolerant of violence and accepted non-democratic, authoritarian and […]
I (R.e. Glenn a.k.a. The Philosopher Monk) was elated to find myself in a discussion today. I love them. Civil, open-minded ones, anyway. And I decided to post it, and to create a new category in this project that will be called “The Dialogues”. And, it would seem, this is the first one
The Gospel of Thomas, and the other gnostic gospels that we now have, was discovered in Egypt in 1945, near a town called Nag Hammadi (hence the name Nag Hammadi Library). Of all the Gospels in that collection, Thomas is considered to be the most important one, and some have suggested that it is a […]
The Parts in the Sum of the Whole 