Category: Theology

  • Late in the Acts of the Apostles, Saul “Paul” of Tarsus, afterward St. Paul, is arrested in Jerusalem. He wisely requests a change of venue to Rome. There's a shipwreck on the way, and they are cast ashore in Malta (called Melita in Acts). The “barbarous” Maltese kindly invite the 276 castaways to warm themselves…

  • It was morning. My spouse was dressing for the day. I was reading in bed, working through Kenneth Miller's Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution. “This is an interesting bar graph,” I said. “It shows a bunch of major living groups through time, and the only group that…