Spirituality

By Fr. Glenn Jones:

The history buff will likely encounter videos of World War II while perusing streaming menus and on Facebook pages. It never fails to strike us how such a great tragedy as that war and the resulting death of so many people occurred essentially due to the ambitions of a very few, as has happened for millennia. Hitler and Mussolini and essentially primarily a military junta in Japan during WWII, the Caesars, Alexander, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, and so many others, great and small. Megalomania is an awful, and awfully destructive, thing.

However, ambition is bad—and even evil—if Read More

By Fr. Glenn Jones:

People will often complain that it’s hard to be a good person in this day and age.  But is it, really?

Christians remember often those of early Christianity who had to worry about being hunted down and martyred in the Roman and other arenas … and, yet, many suffered even that rather than be unfaithful. Even today thousands of Christians are martyred annually around the world, but they remain faithful even while under threat of violent death.

A favorite in the Old Testament about faithfulness despite mortal danger is the account of Eleazar in 2 Maccabees 6 (in the “apocrypha” if Read More

By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Probably every budding young scientist has been fascinated in putting drops of food coloring in a glass of water and watching it spread throughout—diffusing until evenly distributed throughout the whole volume. Perhaps thus began in many the beginnings of scientific curiosity.

Now, early in the Bible’s Old Testament one finds quite a bit concerning cleanliness and uncleanliness of food, objects, etc., especially in the book of Leviticus which outlines much of the early Jewish moral and ritual laws. Certain foods were deemed unclean to eat, pork perhaps the best known Read More