{"id":452,"date":"2009-03-11T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?page_id=452"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:27:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:27:40","slug":"religious-writings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?page_id=452","title":{"rendered":"Religious Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 90px;\">Religious Writings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I start here with two Maryland Daily Record\u00a0columns I wrote that attempt to convey the experience of being <em><strong>A Lawyer and a Believer<\/strong><\/em>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1608\">Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1612\">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In my congregation (St. Vincent de Paul in Baltimore), laypeople homilize throughout the night on Easter.\u00a0 Here are some homiletics from Easters past:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1620\">Subcreation: From Eden to the New Jerusalem<\/a> (Easter 2007)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1616\">Abraham and Isaac : Deciding About Sacrifice<\/a> (Easter 2006)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a title=\"Two Trees\" href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=4606\">Two Trees<\/a>\u00a0(Easter 2014)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a title=\"David: An (Un)Original Sinner\" href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=5189\">David: An (Un)Original Sinner<\/a> (Easter 2015)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=5827\">The Book of Job: Little Things and Great Ones<\/a> (Easter 2016)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=6182\">God&#8217;s Extravagant Creation<\/a> (Easter 2017)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a review in <em>National Catholic Reporter<\/em>, I consider physicist Stephen Hawking&#8217;s attempted debunking of the notion that there is a\u00a0God:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a title=\"Hawking's Bottom Line: We just don't have the answers\" href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/node\/21924\">Hawking&#8217;s bottom line: We just don&#8217;t have the answers<\/a> (January 5,\u00a02011) [Note this is a link, not a post].<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The moral and personal challenge posed by the encounter with panhandlers:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a title=\"The Poor You Have Always In Your Face\" href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=2762\">The Poor You Have Always In Your Face<\/a> (November 30, 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious Writings I start here with two Maryland Daily Record\u00a0columns I wrote that attempt to convey the experience of being A Lawyer and a Believer: Part 1 Part 2 In my congregation (St. Vincent de Paul in Baltimore), laypeople homilize throughout the night on Easter.\u00a0 Here are some homiletics from Easters past: Subcreation: From Eden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":63,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-452","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6186,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452\/revisions\/6186"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}