From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 64

The parable of the Good Samaritan continued...the aversion to the corpse. The power of the sacrificial system is based on death.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 63

The parable of the Good Samaritan continued...'beaten and stripped' of cultural markers...a priest and Levite pass by.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 62

The parable of the Good Samaritan continued..."trying to justify himself" - a symptom of the lack of ontological moorings/ontological density

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 61

A lawyer asks, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" - The parable of the Good Samaritan...

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 60

 A short detour back to St. John's Gospel chapter 9 and the story of the man born blind...Christian agnosticism: "I do not know. All I know is once I was blind and now I can see."

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 59

Thank you Father because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent ones and revealed them to infants…

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 58

Do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven...

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 57

The disciples rejoice that even the demons "submit to us in your name"...where is the emphasis, on 'us' or 'in your name'?
 Jesus sees Satan fall like lightening...

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 56

"At the judgment it will be more tolerable with Tyre and Sidon than with you..."
If a culture, after having been exposed to the Gospel, turns its back on it, it then runs a great risk. The old sacrificial system for averting culture destroying violence has been compromised by the Gospel leaving it exposed to falling into the chaos of 'hades'.

From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 55

The sending of the 70...an advance team going in pairs...like lambs among wolves. Will they go 'native'? The instablility of the autonomous self.

from the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 54

The "impossible possibility" of the Church - to create an enculturating force whose effects are to free us from the forces of enculturation...showing the world a universal being where only ethnic/tribal members existed.