juanctorres

I know it is a little last minute, but we are hosting an online book club during March! We will be reading and discussing The Last Week by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan.

🔗 tinyurl.com/LastWeekBC

Excellent choice!

Sounds great.

You don’t have to become a scholar, but just reading the work of leading scholars will help you and those you help have a faith that is in sync with intelligence and critical thinking.

You can get my critically acclaimed, spiritually helpful Divine Scripture in Human Understanding for only $17.50 (!!!!! not including shipping) today with this sale! Go do it!

undpress.nd.edu/978026810518...

Such good news!

It's release day for Christological Dogmatics!

I try to cover the bases: historical debates, global development, exegesis, moral theology.

I use less-known figures to supplement well known ones: Cyril of Alexandria, Aimee Semple McPherson, Gregory Nazianzus, Jon Sobrino, Robert Clarence Lawson...

Table of contents looks great. Just bought a copy. I’m sure I will get a lot out of it. Thanks for writing this.

Sounds like you’re enjoying the new job. That’s great.

I like it. “Foot wrist” will be used soon enough!

2026 Reads: The Inescapable Love of God by Thomas Talbott 📚

Another re-read in prep for some talks I’m doing. So, so good.

In occupied Palestine, the eyes don't lie – Baptist News Global In response, a group of activists in Silwan began to paint giant murals of eyes all over the neighborhood as symbols of solidarity,

I’m thankful to @baptistnews.com for publishing the article I wrote about my solidarity trip to Palestine. “Mitri Raheb told me Palestinians need more Baptists standing up for them; and maybe by seeing for yourself, you can join me in being a Baptist for a free Palestine.”

Living close to the ocean is so helpful! 😅

Last Summer I read and learned a lot about Advaita Vedanta. So helpful!

Taizé altar at First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor.

Ubi caritas et amor,
ubi caritas, Deus ibi est.

PRESENTATION OF THE LORD

“Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples.”
— Simeon in Luke 2:29-31

AMEN! 🙏

On the Way (@kennethkovacs) Following Jesus into God’s empire. https://substack.com/@kennethkovacs/note/p-186654541?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=43wzd

On following Jesus into God's empire, the place of human flourishing. substack.com/@kennethkova...

I ended up going to Mass after all (late Mass at 6:30pm). It was good 👏🏽

A Plea for Peace and Dignity in Minnesota A Response to Bishop Robert Barron

I wrote a response to Bishop Robert Barron’s recent statement on the immigration raids and protests in Minnesota. His message misrepresents Catholic teaching on immigration, and he is silent about the systematic abuses committed by immigration enforcement agencies.
open.substack.com/pub/windowli...

Agreed. My Catholic church did not have one. So I started one. We study the Bible one book at a time using reputable Catholic (and Protestant) scholarship. So much fun!

Yup 😅

We’re all sick or extremely tired for caring for the sick at the house today. No church today 🫠

Since the violent have co-opted the term 'peacemaker', we're translating this in the beattitudes as.

Blessed are the artisans of peace,
for they will be called children of God.

I do love this rendering. I also know that most violent people loath artists - so we should be fine. 📜

I think I pulled a muscle in my lower back area 🫠

The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’ The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals

I'm gonna introduce Buddhism next week by briefly contrasting two news stories: the monks marching for peace in the USA with the genocidal Sri Lankan monks

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

So is this just like the longest January in history or what

What’s your favorite commentary on Jeremiah? Need some good recommendations!

On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Never Again means Never Again For Anyone. End the apartheid of the West Bank. End the genocide in Gaza.

📸: The home of a Palestinian demolished by Israel. Israel flattened his home so it can build a garden where he once lived. Photos taken by me.

“Pity the Nation” A Poem for our Time by Lawrence Ferlinghetti “PITY THE NATION”Lawrence Ferlinghetti (After Khalil Gibran) 2007 Pity the nation whose people are sheepAnd whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liarsWhose sages are sil…

“Pity the Nation”

Was only broken up with once. What helped me: spending time with friends who cared for me.