Theology

Dear friends in Christ On Sunday, August 17, at 10am (repeated the following Thursday at 12:40pm) I will look at Song of Songs from the middle of chapter 2 through chapter 3. Chapter 3 is interesting for the way the “overt” stories don’t make sense until one turns to theological allegory. When we read “cloud […]

Dear friends in Christ “The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s” will pick up Sunday, August 10 at 1:7, where we ask God how to find him and he says basically if you don’t know already, how can I help you? This Bible study is about how to read a book whose genre is allegory, […]

Summer heat with Song of Songs.

Hell, hope and the holy kiss: just some of the things rubbing up against each other in Fr Austin’s head.

II Corinthians is ending just as hell is arriving.

Dear friends in Christ On Sunday, July 13 (and repeated on Thursday, July 17), I will lead a Bible study on the 11th chapter of II Corinthians. This is a breath-taking chapter where Paul lets his rhetoric run on all cylinders. The class meets on Sunday at 10 a.m. on the 5th floor, with the […]

Over the course of six months, Fr Austin’s Good Books Class will go through hell, purgatory and paradise. Some things never change.

The thought of hell makes Fr Austin think of Dan Brown.

Dear friends in Christ As June 29 is Father Mead’s final Sunday with us, I want to begin by giving a woefully inadequate voice to my deep thanks for his trust in me and his vision for Saint Thomas that led him to call me as our parish’s “theologian-in-residence.” Who would have thought that we’d […]

Fr Austin is back, and so is the study of 2 Corinthians.