John 4:5-18 (NRSV) So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said […]
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Discussion: Is Taal Explosion God’s Punishment For Nazareno “Idolatry”?
In the wake of Taal Volcano’s explosion, a viral Facebook post hints that it is linked to the Roman Catholic’s Black Nazarene celebration that happened just a few days before the explosion. God is angry. Just a few days after the Black Nazarene celebration, the Taal volcano erupted. Why celebrate a statue? Couldn’t this phenomenon […]
God Gets Intimate With Jacob
Genesis 32:22-30 (NRSV) The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. […]
David Loved Jonathan More Than Women
2 Samuel 1:26 (NRSV) I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; greatly beloved were you to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. […]
Coronavirus is NOT God’s Punishment
The NCOV-19, also known as coronavirus, is NOT a punishment from God. It’s a disease like any other virus that gets passed on and kills indiscriminately. It knows no race, gender, nationality nor any religion. There have been viruses and different diseases ever since life existed on Earth. Some viruses continue to exist, mutate and […]