Please give a reasonable reply to our confusion. We are told to believe every teaching in the Holy Bible. How do we accept such stories as Moses seeing the back of God himself, Jonah living inside a whale, Jacob wrestling with God, and everything going on for “forty days and forty nights”?
Archive | November, 2009
The strange world of saints
Saints have always been part of my life. Whatever challenges faced my family in my formative years, there was a specialist saint to take up the cudgels on our behalf. And I cannot ever remember a situation where there was not a positive outcome.
Justice for the laity
Recently I sent a friend a text message informing him that I had quit as editor of the Nairobi-based Catholic Information Service for Africa (CISA). He replied: “It is both good and sad news; good because you have got greener pastures and bad because we will miss your services. The Church is oppressive. If you [...]
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