Showing up makes God’s love tangible when people need it most. My first deathbed visit as a pastor was with a person I’d never met. On the drive over, I wondered what I would say and if I’d be able to ...
The Goodness of God was written by Jenn Johnson and others at Bethel Music, with Jenn being the first to sing it. It begins ...
The liturgy of the sixteenth Sunday in ordinary time is based on the following readings: Wisdom 12:13, 16-19; Psalm86; Romans8:26-27; Matthew13:24-43. The main theme is on God’s presence and work in ...
On any given Sunday, churchgoers settle into pews and listen to a sermons. A member of the clergy uses text from the Bible and figures out what it has to say about our lives today. How would you feel ...
attempt to respond to him in our actions; however, we approach him as one who will always be absent to us while we remain in something we now must call “our present state.” traces of God found in ...
The church should be separate from the nation-state so that its voice remains unbound and its witness above reproach.
Speaking of being overwhelmed and it impacting your prayer life, I got some great advice from my spiritual director recently. I was describing the many occasions on which the words I read seem to fly ...
“Old friends sat on a park bench like bookends . . . ” That Simon & Garfunkel lyric is one of very few lines ever written in honour of the silent presence of a true friend. Someday, there will be only ...
Almost 48 years after her final public appearance, Dorothy Day once again spoke to a eucharistic congress. Only this time, the words that reflected the eucharistic underpinnings of Day's ...