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The Original Church, with Dr. James L. Papandrea, is an ecumenical Christian community exploring our common roots in the early Church for the purposes of spiritual growth and practicing the Christian faith. No politics, debates, or proselytizing, just "faith seeking understanding" from the perspective of the early (and medieval) Church and the Church fathers. Jim Papandrea is an author and Professor of Church History and Historical Theology.
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The Cafe - Martin Luther King Jr. Day

This is something that's been going around in my head for a while, so I'm just going to say it.

The question is not whether Black Lives Matter - we all agree that they do - the question is WHEN does a black life begin to matter?

We all know by now (whether or not people are willing to acknowledge/admit it, or whether or not people choose to live in denial of it) that Planned Parenthood was founded by racists as a eugenics project, specifically meant to decrease the number of people of color in the population. But what a lot of people don't know is that it is STILL this same ongoing project, as it generally targets lower income neighborhoods full of people of color when it comes to deciding where to put its "clinics." More black lives have been ended by abortion than by "gun violence" or systemic racism or whatever. I daresay that if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would be horrified by abortion - in any case, his niece, Alveda King, is a pro-life activist. She gets it.

So if you want to say Black Lives Matter, you need to say that they begin to matter at conception, because otherwise, if they don't matter from conception and when they are most vulnerable, then they don't matter at all. Needless to say, all human lives matter from conception. And if not, what does that say about Jesus, who became human in his incarnation, which happened at his conception?

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Sneak Peek into my NEW OFFICE!

I'm back, up and running, and ready to go - I should have a new JOURNEY episode within the next week or so - and because you are my loyal peeps, here is an exclusive, just-for-you, behind the scenes SNEAK PEEK into my new office:

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In case you missed it, here's my Gospel Reflection

This was for March 24th, recorded for the Ascension App

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The Journey is BACK!

Thanks for your patience - here is our next installment of The Journey - it's session # 96, but I'm also calling it PART 1 of a "miniseries" on John chapter 6.

Whoever watches it first, please let me know if it looks good or if there are any problems with it - I get through the first two sections of the text on the feeding of the 5,000.

Enjoy!

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Here's another song... Come Let Us Climb the Lord's Mountain

I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:

In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!

I hope you like the song!

Here's another song... Come Let Us Climb the Lord's Mountain
THE JOURNEY 101

This is Part 6 of our mini-series on John Chapter 6

Here's the latest from The Way of the Fathers

The second episode on St. Hildegard of Bingen

Here is Episode 100 !! of The Journey

Something to celebrate! 100 Episodes! Here it is, Episode 100 (which is part 5 of the series on John, Chapter 6) - post comments and questions!

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