Category Archives: Men and Women

EAST OF EDEN (1955): Life without God

 ”I can’t believe your fickleness – how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing a variant message!  It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God.” St Paul, Letter to the Galatians[i] Even …

September 25, 2012 – 3:50 am | By Paul | Posted in Books, from Paul, Men and Women, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments (0)

LIFEBOAT: Alfred Hitchcock’s Parable of the Strong Man

  The ship is sinking. The seas are rough. The only lifeboat can hold no more than six. Eight people climb aboard. Who should stay? Who should go? Many group discussions of ethical dilemmas begin with scenarios like this one. Partially to spur American entrance into the world war against the Nazis, Alfred Hitchcock appropriated …

June 29, 2012 – 5:06 am | By Paul | Posted in History, Men and Women, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, Uncategorized, World Affairs | Comments (0)

The Father’s Great Gift

“Father” is one of the images given to help us better understand the nature of God. It is a complicated image. Our biological father’s personality and behavior give us our first glimpse into an important aspect of God. Dad provides good things for us, but also most often says “Don’t” and “No.” And we don’t …

June 9, 2012 – 6:13 pm | By Paul | Posted in from Paul, Men and Women, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments (0)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P.

August 5, 2008 – 11:26 am | By Paul | Posted in History, Men and Women, Quotations, Theater, World Affairs | Comments (0)

Were Adam and Eve Real or a Myth? Science Says Real

A few days ago when I was talking about Adam and Eve, my teenage son remarked that in school (a Catholic school, no less) he was taught that Adam and Eve were mytholocial, not real. I told him I thought they were both, first real , then typological, and eventually mythological. I had forgotten a key …

June 12, 2008 – 8:43 am | By Paul | Posted in History, Men and Women, Science, Theology | Comments (0)

GRACE (Not Eight) IS ENOUGH

He knows what it profits to gain the world but lose his soul; Willie Aames  was  on the top of the Hollywood world as teen star. Maylo Upton-Aames absorbed the pains and pleasures of this Present Evil Age; then she learned that the Greek word for “saved” is the same as the word for “healed” …

April 13, 2008 – 11:32 am | By Paul | Posted in Books, Men and Women, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom | Comments (0)

“The Role of Zoey Brooks is Being Played by _________”

When Jesus challenged his followers to “Follow Me”, He suggested that they see the world as He saw it, and let Him rule their decision making process. Does the challenge mean anything less when offered by a pregnant, unmarried sixteen year old girl?

January 4, 2008 – 9:17 am | By Paul | Posted in Men and Women, Television | Comments (1)

“Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny?”

Christopher Hitchens once again goes where no other man dare. Click here, (if you are brave enough).

December 8, 2006 – 3:26 pm | By Paul | Posted in Men and Women | Comments (0)

CINDERELLA MAN

Fredericka Mathewes-Green notes the significance of this important movie: “Cinderella Man is not really a movie about boxing, it’s a movie about what it means to be a man. In the character of Jim Braddock, we can read what today’s audiences are wistful for: a man who works hard to support his wife and kids, …

December 10, 2005 – 7:20 am | By Paul | Posted in Men and Women, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom | Comments (0)