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'''Blog Posts''' | '''Blog Posts''' | ||
Encounters with Scripture, Christ, and daily life. | Encounters with Scripture, Christ, and daily life by Michael Bromley. | ||
== [[Blog:Salvation is for the "childlike"? Matthew 11:25]] == | |||
[[File:Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel, The Trial of Joan of Arc (Joan of Arc series - VI), c. late 1909-early 1910, NGA 195567.jpg|thumb]] | |||
<small>[https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/11?25 Matthew 11:25]: | |||
''At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike."'' | |||
While teaching at a Catholic high school, a colleague tried to convert me. Of a protestant background, but not even baptized, I was one of those enlightened moderns who felt good about God and Jesus but not so much as to be troubled by belief, and certainly not at the expense of "reason." My colleague's argument was that I was over-intellectualizing faith: instead, I should approach God “like a child,” you know, "childlike." </small> | |||
<small>Aug 1, 2024 by Michael</small> | |||
<small>[[Blog:Salvation is for the "childlike"? Matthew 11:25|Read more]]</small> | |||
== [[Blog:"and greet no one along the way"]] == | == [[Blog:"and greet no one along the way"]] == | ||
[[File:Two_young_boys_carrying_water_walk_down_a_road_next_to_an_IDP_camp_near_the_town_of_Jowhar,_Somalia,_on_December_14._Fighting_between_clans_has_displaced_more_than_twelve_thousand_people_near_the_town_(27447003001).jpg|alt=Image from Jowhar, Somali (Wikipedia)|thumb|<small>A dusty road on the way to somewhere (Somalia, Wikipedia)</small]] | [[File:Two_young_boys_carrying_water_walk_down_a_road_next_to_an_IDP_camp_near_the_town_of_Jowhar,_Somalia,_on_December_14._Fighting_between_clans_has_displaced_more_than_twelve_thousand_people_near_the_town_(27447003001).jpg|alt=Image from Jowhar, Somali (Wikipedia)|thumb|<small>A dusty road on the way to somewhere (Somalia, Wikipedia)</small>]] | ||
<small>June 3, 2024 by Michael</small> | <small>June 3, 2024 by Michael</small> | ||