Now that paper fortunes have been lost and retirement savings have fallen through the floor, the country seems to be in a mood to stone false prophets. You know whom I haven’t seen on television ...
(RNS) — False prophets tell us that global warming will not happen, microplastics do not cause cancer, guns will protect us, and the poor need to suffer to motivate them to work. (RNS) — In the ...
Last month at the DAVOS conference, a gathering of many of the richest people in the world, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was called a “prophet of doom” for her warnings about climate ...
"Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem" by Horace Vernet, 1844. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia/Creative Commons) (RNS) — In the Catholic weekday liturgy, we are currently hearing from Prophet Jeremiah, who ...
For nearly a year, I have been greatly disturbed by the attack on the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright and Trinity United Church of Christ, which has culminated in recent weeks in a media feeding frenzy ...
As the Church continues to walk through Ordinary Time, she presents the call and the struggles of following the way of God. Case in point, this weekend in the Bible Readings from Mass, we hear the ...
The importance God attaches to the office of prophecy and the prophetic ministry is revealed in His Word in Amos 3:7, to wit, "Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His ...
It's a historical drama that seems more like Vikings or even Game of Thrones, but, technically, ABC's upcoming series Of Kings & Prophets is based on a historical document — The Books of Samuel, part ...