St Paul

you too can redeem time “All is quiet on New Year’s Day / A world in white gets underway I want to be with you / Be with you night and day Nothing changes on New Year’s Day / On New Year’s Day” I always think of this song when…

the uncreated as the created “What if God was one of us? / Just a slob like one of us / Just a stranger on the bus / Trying to make His way home?” There is one “who, though he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality…

“Operation Messiah: St. Paul, Roman intelligence and the birth of Christianity.” By Thijs Voskuilen and Rose Mary Sheldon. Vallentine Mitchell, London and Chicago 2008. 288 pages. $32.95 paperback A review by Jay Brodell With the Christmas season approaching, taking shots at the traditional narrative is a popular sport. Was Christ…

What is a virtuous way to go about bodybuilding? Is perfecting the body aesthetically through weight training and conditioning an inherently vain aspiration? Can I affirm the divinity and beauty of the body through exercise, while not idolizing it? I have embarked on my fitness journey since the beginning of…

it’s not a monster — it’s eternity Time. It has been the subject of artists and scientists, philosophers and theologians. It has been the concern of preparers of food, be it in five-star restaurants, diners, or my wife’s creations! [On a side note: I’m usually pretty good with dates. For…