Maybe-Not-Intelligent-but-at-Least-Tasteful Design

Here’s a rib-tickler by Paul Rudnick about the problems of Intelligent Design: Day No. 1: And the Lord God said, “Let there be light,” and lo, there was light. But then the Lord God said, “Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything else I design will …

Sunday Week 24 Year A

‘He who exacts vengeance will experience the vengeance of the lord’. That’s what the folk wisdom of Ecclesiasticus says. So why can’t I preach a homily underlining that? Let the parable be Jesus threatening us into forgiveness—making an unforgiving heart an unforgivable sin. Partly it’s because I don’t want a schizophrenic God who can be …