Author Archives: Bert Hielema

March 30 2022. THE CHURCH REVISITED. Augustine – who was not a saint – once said, “Many whom God has, the church does not have; and many whom the  church has, God does not have.” I was reminded of this … Continue reading →

March 23 2022. THE LOST GOSPEL. “How do we know God?”  “Who cares?”, you might say. True, we may flip out the odd OMG, but that’s often the closest we come to God.  To be honest, most people don’t give … Continue reading →

March 16 2022  THE TWO POPES There is an eery similarity between the Calamitous 14th Century and the age we live in. Barbara W. Tuchman in THE DISTANT MIRROR, dealing with that period in intimate detail, begins her near 700 pages book, how, in the … Continue reading →

March 9 2022 TIME TO PRAY. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? (Isaiah 10:3). I have been re-reading a … Continue reading →

March 2 2022. PUTIN’S MARCH OF FOLLY.  We live in interesting times, which, by the way, is a Chinese curse. That matters are not normal, is beyond question. Normality presupposes life ruled by ‘norms’, a concept that implies ‘ethics’, a set … Continue reading →

February 23 2022 IS GOD GONE? There’s a curious text in Deuteronomy 32: 20:  I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful. … Continue reading →