As most of you know I have spent two-thirds of my life as a college teacher. Throughout most of that time I have tried to operate according to an educational philosophy that emphasizes the process of learning rather than simply learning an on facts and about ideas as ends in themselves. Often, I called this…

Years ago, an acquaintance of mine, one Thomas Sheehan, wrote a book entitled The First Coming in which he argued that the life and death of Jesus constituted the first, only, and real coming of the Christ to earth. He argued that there was and will be no second coming because Christ accomplished his task…