The Adventures of Captain Peabody

Future Heresies: A Thought Experiment The following post will most likely interest very few people; but, well, it interests me.  I have spen...

Easter Ironies One day, someone should make a book that simply goes through and lists all the jokes in the Bible. There are many of them, fr...

In my last essay, I decided that I understood ancient Platonism. In this post, though, I will not pretend to understand modern physics. I wi...

The Trinitarian Controversy as the Culmination of Ancient Platonism Recently, while engaged in scholarly work, I suddenly had a moment of re...

 Benedict XVI, 1927-2022 I have been meaning to write this essay since the death of Benedict XVI. I am just now getting to it. Lots of light...

Hilary of Poitier's Argument For Human & Divine Equality [ I was a bit under the weather and very busy this week, so instead of taki...

"And now you yourself glorify me, Father, with yourself, in the glory which I had, with you, before the world existed." (John 17...

"There was a vessel there full of vinegar, and putting a sponge soaked with vinegar onto a hyssop rod, they brought it to his mouth. W...

"Pilate said to him: 'You do not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you, and authority to crucify you?...

"And carrying the Cross for himself Jesus went out to the place called 'of the Skull,' which is called in Hebrew Golgotha....

"By the Cross stood the mother of Jesus." (John 19:25) There is a great paradox to be found in the Passion of Christ; that in ...

"The soldiers led him away into the courtyard, that is, the praetorium, and they called together the whole cohort. And they clad him i...

"Then they spat in his face." (Matthew 26:67) There is a sacramental quality to the body that is unbreakable. We are complex cr...