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Acts 9: 10 – 31 As is common in the Book of Acts, visions are a frequent medium for God’s self-communication. In today’s reading, God reveals himself through vision to both Ananias and Saul within the space of three short verses. This does not strike post-modern people as the most convincing form of Divine communication. Few […]

Acts 9: 1 – 9 A paradigm shift, as described by American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn, applies to revolutions in scientific perspective, but, more broadly, a paradigm shift is a fundamental change in approach and underlying assumptions. I have recently re-read Carlo Rovelli’s book ‘The Order of Time,’ which I first read when the book was

Acts 8: 26 – 40 The extraordinary octagonal Martyrium of St. Philip the Apostle at Hierapolis is built on the site where it is believed, with considerable credibility, that St. Philip was martyred. The arches of the eight individual chapels there, marked by crosses, originally had heptagonal interiors. It is a remarkable archaeological location. I first went

Acts 8: 1 – 24 When in Guatemala some years ago my cousin Jeff and I sought out the enormous shrine to Maximón, a folk-saint worshipped in the Guatemalan highlands and at a smaller shrine on the island of Santiago on Lake Atitlán. Associated with the Mayan diety of the underworld Ma’an, Maximón is said to