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Father Richard Rohr considers how the apostle Paul identified within himself the many paradoxes that he taught:
After his conversion experience and in all of his letters, Paul seems to love and understand paradox. He teaches through contrast, comparison, and the overcoming of seeming contradictions. Those who read him superficially have almost always he...
Public theologian Rachel Held Evans (1981–2019) describes how Paul used his education and background to spread the good news of Christ:
Paul of Tarsus was a proud Jew, “circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews” (Philippians 3:5). A Pharisee and the son of a Pharisee, he knew and loved the Tora...
Father Richard Rohr emphasizes how the teachings of the apostle Paul come from his experience of Christ living in him—and in all reality!
In his letter to the Galatians, Paul describes his encounter with the risen Christ on the road to Damascus. He writes a most telling line: “God revealed his Son in me” (Galatians 1:16). This high degree of inn...
Sunday
To hold the full mystery of life is always to endure its other half, which is the equal mystery of death and doubt. To know anything fully is always to hold that part of it which is still mysterious and unknowable.
—Richard Rohr
Brian McLaren explains how he found support in the Bible to welcome uncertainty and expand his faith:
To my surprise, I discovered that … in the Bible I had been reading my whole life, and especially in the life and teachings of Jesus, Mary, Paul, James, and John, the fresh understanding of faith my heart was thirsty for had been waiting like a hidden s...