A fresh look at what this controversial marriage passage says–and doesn’t say. Marriage is a mystery: The Bible says that husband and wife become “one flesh,” as head and body, in the likeness of ...
We can rightly look to God as husband and God as Father without making male sexuality divine. Last week, my students and I were looking at ways to interpret difficult texts in Paul in class when a ...
Proverbs 9 seems to suggest that someone might be tempted to bypass wisdom’s feast and try to survive on the thin gruel of folly, or information.
The second reading for the Twentieth Sunday in ordinary time continues with Ephesians, chapter 5:15-20, and the exhortation for holy living. The NAB translates the first phrase in v.15 as “watch ...