I have good and bad news. Let me state the bad first: the church is not in Christ. And I will have to explain the meaning of that, and why it is so extremely important. Now the good news: The Second Coming has commenced. And I will have to explain to you what I mean […]

There is no more dramatic and significant week in the history of humanity than the final week in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Theories and interpretations continue to abound. After having studied, taught and preached about Jesus’ final week for more than thirty years, even writing a play in 2003 which I produced and […]

We have never needed peace and peacemakers more than today. We need peace within us, peace between us and others, and peace in the world. We may not be able to bring peace to the world, but what about peace to our little corner of the world? Of all those disciples who came after Jesus, […]

Jesus came healing. That means, Jesus came forgiving, for there is no more important form of healing than forgiveness. Forgiveness is a holy balm which cleanses and renews the blood of common life. Without forgiveness intimacy and love are doomed; without forgiveness our hearts are destined to become stone, and we the inmates of hell; […]

Pain, suffering, affliction, trials and tribulations are primal mysteries, as ultimately unanswerable as the whys of life itself, including the whys of pleasure, joy and love as well as the negative. Yet the issue can plague us: Why do we suffer? To truly understand the why of suffering, we would need to understand what if […]