2020 Treatises

Did you see that post on Facebook?  that clip on YouTube? Wasn't that amazing? Well I can tell you this, it went viral! It was shared thousands of times, had millions of hits; it had a message that hit home all over the world!  It was hard to understand exactly how or why, but in the world wide web of the internet, friend shared with friend and before you know it, it was trending on many search engines and applications. It this story it doesn't much make any difference what the subject is, or what happened to the subject.  It doesn't even make much difference if I know what I'm talking about here.  I may not. When it comes to pandemic diseases such as COVID-19, we are more and more ingrained with the language of social media to describe the way the virus moves around populations.  We are more acquainted with the randomness of transmission, in a brutally ironic twist we speak of "social distancing", now clarified as "physical distance". Iron...

Covid- 19, the new corona virus was not a phrase known to us a couple of months ago.  Never before singled out, never contracted by humans, its newness in our population meaning we are without treatment or immunity. Thankfully, it's only a small fraction of folks that die from it.  The disease is relentless, unstoppable.  It must avoided by action on our part.  Our medical system inadequate to combat it due to our Now let's flip this whole thing on its' ear referring to "anastasisitus.a thanatos"or Iroughly speaking} the resurrection of the dead.  In case you hadn't noticed, light has this way of being visible.  The world we see around us is light to us, much more than my vision made out of light.  "You were once darkness," writes the author, " but now you are light." Faith reveals light. At issue is existence.  Light reveals.  Darkness is nonexistence.  Such is the physics and metaphysics of the Bible.  Therefore our identity...