If Hosea is a factual account, it’s horrific. If it’s an allegory, it’s still horrific.
Season after Pentecost | 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Hosea 1:2-10; Psalm 85; (Genesis 18:20-32; Psalm 138;) Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19); Luke 11:1-13
To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.
Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”
In Paul's letters, the command to walk is moral exhortation.
What if, when praying for our daily bread, we had real food in mind?
Prayer is ministry, and ministry is prayer.