
Episodes

Sunday May 10, 2009
The Vine and the Branches
Sunday May 10, 2009
Sunday May 10, 2009
The image of the vine and the branches indicates that our relationship with Christ is greater than that of merely a teacher to his students. Instead, we are related to him on all levels of our existence because Christ is the eternal Logos through whom all things are made.

Sunday Apr 26, 2009
Resurrection and Metanoia
Sunday Apr 26, 2009
Sunday Apr 26, 2009
The readings for today effect a correlation between the resurrection of Jesus and conversion. The biblical word for conversion is "metanoia" which has the sense of "going beyond the mind that you have." What would it be like to move from a death-haunted consciousness to resurrection-haunted one? It would involve a conversion.

Sunday Apr 19, 2009
Resurrection and the Love of This World
Sunday Apr 19, 2009
Sunday Apr 19, 2009
From the time of Marx, Feuerbach and Freud, we've heard the critique that religion is a wish-fulfilling fantasy, a game of "pie in the sky when you die." The readings for this second Sunday of Easter give the lie to this criticism, for they show how those who were convinced of Jesus' resurrection were also deeply commited to a more just society.

Sunday Apr 12, 2009
The Resurrection of Jesus is Not a Myth
Sunday Apr 12, 2009
Sunday Apr 12, 2009
There are some debunkers of religion around today who want us to believe that the story of the resurrection is just another iteration of the myth of the dying and rising god that can be found in many ancient cultures. Nothing could be further from the truth. A careful reading of the Easter accounts shows that they have to do with a very particular, historical individual and with a very particular, unrepeatable event.

Sunday Apr 05, 2009
Dealing With the Mess
Sunday Apr 05, 2009
Sunday Apr 05, 2009
Life is grim. It is marked by conflict, division, inextricably difficult situations. And brooding over all of it is the fact of death. How do we deal with this mess? We can't, but God can. In Christ, he takes on the dysfunction and sin of the world and takes it away through the divine mercy. Walk through the Passion narrative with this idea in mind.

Sunday Mar 29, 2009
Planting the Law Within Us
Sunday Mar 29, 2009
Sunday Mar 29, 2009
Jeremiah 31:31contains the great prophecy that the Lord will one day place his law within our hearts. In the Old Testament, God's law was written on stone and often appreciated as an imposition, a burden. But Jesus is the Law incarnate, the Torah made flesh. Therefore, when we eat his body and drink his blood, we take the law into our hearts, and thus we realize the prophecy of Jeremiah.

Sunday Mar 22, 2009
Reading the Signs of the Times
Sunday Mar 22, 2009
Sunday Mar 22, 2009
How do we know what's going on? How do we read the signs of the times? We could do so politically, sociologically, culturally, or economically. But the Bible insists that the world should be read theologically. What precisely is God doing and why? This sermon is about how to do this.

Sunday Mar 15, 2009
The Ten Commandments
Sunday Mar 15, 2009
Sunday Mar 15, 2009
Scott Hahn refers to these famous laws as 'our declaration of dependence.' They teach us how to center our lives radically around God and his demands. They signal our total dependence upon the Lord. How wonderful that we meditate on them in the midst of Lent.

Sunday Mar 08, 2009
The Terrible Aqedah
Sunday Mar 08, 2009
Sunday Mar 08, 2009
The story of the Aqedah, the Binding of Isaac, haunted the Israelite religious imagination. In it is contained one of the most important spiritual lessons in the Bible: everything we are and everything we have belongs, finally, to God. Knowing this is our liberation.

Sunday Mar 01, 2009
Get on the Ark
Sunday Mar 01, 2009
Sunday Mar 01, 2009
As Lent commences, we are given the great image of Noah's Ark. This story is not just a charming tale that we tell to the kids; in it is contained the whole message of salvation, if we but know how to decipher the symbolism.