Michael Vick redux

Just last May, Fr. Ernesto ran a series on penology in the USA. As part of that series he pointed out our tendency to never forgive or forget what a criminal has done. In fact, part of the problem of rehabilitation is our USA tendency to “speak with forked tongues.” Ask any good conservative Christian, and they will laud the forgiveness given the woman caught in adultery, to St. Peter who... [Read more]

Of Bible, interpretation, and Supreme Court judges, part 05

In 1950, a work destined to become a classic was released, Protestant Biblical Interpretation by Bernard Ramm. It quickly became a textbook used by a huge number of Protestant seminaries. It was one of the last hermeneutics textbooks of wide acceptance that still took the viewpoint that by the use of a type of “scientific” linguistic exercise, one could determine that meaning of a Scripture... [Read more]