The section on God the Son begins with an explanation of how Jesus is the perfect icon or image of God and how this reveals God’s character as above all love. This post turns to how this is profoundly true and deceptively simple in its explanation.

Moving to the fourth section of the 1979 Catechism, we arrive at the Ten Commandments. These are the foundation of Christian life together, and, indeed the hoped for foundation of all flourishing human community. This post gives and overview of the significance of the Ten Commandments seen as a whole in the Christian tradition.

Our exploration of the Catechism comes to the third section dealing with the Old Covenant. This first entry in this section talks about the multiple covenants presented in the Old Testament as well as the different kinds of covenants represented throughout the Bible.

The last question from the 1979 Catechism dealing with God the Father explores where revelation takes place. In this post, the focus is on the covenant communities that stand behind the Bible and the Bible's emerging from the experiences of God in history by these communities.

John 12:8 and Matthew 26:11 are often deployed to argue for Christian inaction on poverty, but I think the more faithful reading is to see these as instances where the exception proves the rule that Christians should be hyper-vigilant about prioritizing care for the poor.

Many of us find starting habits like daily Bible reading or prayer daunting—but James Clear in Atomic Habits may offer a way to ease into such habits in such a way that they can become permanent features of our lives.