This category provides short essays written by Dr. Ron Miller. All of the essays were written for Ron’s website and date back a few years. The most recently written article in the collection was written on 5/1/2011, just three days before Ron passed away.
A man enjoys sex with a male prostitute while using a mind-altering substance. There seems to be nothing newsworthy about such a statement. It’s happening everday all over the world. But when the man is an ordained minister, the pastor of a church, and the president of a national religious body, as well as a […]
Don’t be Double-Minded Read More »
Another bit of papyrus was recently discovered in the sands of Egypt. No official translation has yet been published but here is my amateur attempt to translate the Coptic text. The manuscript is in fairly good condition but there are a few places where the text cannot be clearly deciphered. Two men approached Jeshu when
A Lost Gospel Fragment Read More »
It was a CNN special. A Ku Klux Klan rally in Alabama. A small group of some fifteen klansmen shouting obscenities about Blacks and asserting that Alabama should be an all-white state. A menacing crowd surrounded the white-clad klansmen. But protecting them was a cordon of police officers. I was struck by the fact that
Proud To Be An American Read More »
When John Paul II was elected pope in 1978, a Jesuit friend of mine in Rome telephoned me to say that the assembled cardinals had elected “the best of the commissars”. The subsequent twenty-seven years proved him to be right on target. The impetus of the Second Vatican Council died with John XXIII. Paul VI
From Commissar to Commandant: The Recent Papacy Read More »