Author: Robby E.
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‘Are you envious because I am generous?’
Applying Jesus’ parable about the workers in the vineyard to the modern context of opinions on social welfare programs.
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LGBTQ+: An Affirmative Theology
Few issues are as divisive as homosexuality and transgenderism in the Church, today. This is an unfortunate circumstance, but one that needs to be addressed. Most efforts to discuss LGBTQ+ from a theological perspective come from an authoritative approach, not from the perspective of a disciple of Christ. Yet this perspective is crucial because, regardless…
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Reflections on the Angelus I
The Angelus is a concise and succinct reminder of the daily work of bringing forth the Christ in ourselves. Reading into the prayer, we find a summary of the mystical experience of the Incarnation which is accessible to all who are willing to open themselves up to it.
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Plato’s Cave: The Illusion of Affluence
This was the topic of a paper I wrote in January 2024 for a philosophy class. Shortly after finishing the paper, it occured to me that Plato’s Cave allegory can be used to explain a great many of the perceptual and prioritization problems that humanity has developed in the post-Enlightenment centuries, particularly in the wake…