Tag Archives: sin

Everything is Broken

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

In a recently highlighted post by Alana Newhouse on the Tablet website entitled Everything Is Broken the author generalizes from her experience with what she describes as a broken US medical establishment to musing on how every other part of … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving retrospective

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Reflections on Civic Religion – public expressions of national faith in God This year’s pandemic transformed holiday traditions have attempted to replace physical with virtual presence to mitigate the spread of the COVID virus. Perhaps those adapted to the virtual … Continue reading →

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Tweet others as you would like to be tweeted

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Listening to a symposium on social media and the 1st Amendment hosted by Georgetown University and the Knight First Amendment Institute I heard the above permutation of the ‘Golden Rule’. The entire hour and forty minute panel discussion was interesting … Continue reading →

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The Work of Humility

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Reflections for Labor Day: God gave me being in order that I should give it back to him. It is like one of those traps whereby the characters are tested in fairy stories and tales on ini­tiation. If I accept … Continue reading →

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Sin & Death – a moebius strip

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Gil Bailie

For a while now I have thought about posting something about one of the most theologically influential verses in the New Testament, Romans 5:12, on which Augustine famously depended for his teaching on original sin. Readings from a recent daily … Continue reading →

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Adam & the Tree: Dante’s Paradiso Canto XXVI

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The first human, Adam, tells Dante that the tree in the Garden of Eden from which he and Eve ate was not a bad tree. It was good, as all creation is. The Fall resulted from violating God’s decree to … Continue reading →

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Destiny…Man’s and God’s Kingdom

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Where others saw only superficial politics, Bernanos saw man’s eternal destiny and, indeed, the destiny of God’s Kingdom at stake. Just as an individual sins, plunges into the abyss, undergoes conversion, and confesses his wrongdoing, so too a country in … Continue reading →

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Our hidden faults…

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The great misfortune is that the justice of men always comes too late. It represses or stigmatizes certain acts, without ever tracing these either higher or farther back than the person who has committed them. But our hidden faults poison … Continue reading →

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