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February 2015

February 08, 2015
Transfixed by joy, Peter is speechless – and then he stammers, wishing the moment could...
February 01, 2015
There are only two mother-in-law stories in the Bible, as far as I know.  One...

January 2015

January 25, 2015
If you watched the final show of The Colbert Report  (and if you wish, you...
January 18, 2015
After John was arrested.    Mark adds  a sinister dimension to the calling of disciples –...
January 11, 2015
When Jesus calls disciples, he is not seeking a balance of perfect qualities that will...
January 03, 2015
The Australian film, Tracks, tells the true story of  Robyn Davidson, a young woman who,...

December 2014

December 28, 2014
 .  .  .  .  wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the...
December 23, 2014
Sitting Ducks.   The infant sons of Bethlehem were sitting ducks for Herod’s army, that infamous...
December 22, 2014
Good news; but if you ask me what it is, I know not; It is...
December 15, 2014
We are all called to be mothers of God – for God is always waiting...
December 07, 2014
What is the crying at Jordan? Who hears, O God, the prophecy? Dark is the...

November 2014

November 29, 2014
It is in rugged rises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out...
November 22, 2014
On the stiff twig up there Hunches a wet black rook Arranging and rearranging its...
November 17, 2014
In J.K. Rowling’s  world of Harry Potter, where the aim of education was to learn...
November 10, 2014
There’s a razor’s edge in Matthew’s telling of Jesus’ tales.  Occasional words of warning appear...
November 01, 2014
Who has a wedding in the middle of the night anyway?  How can anyone be...

October 2014

October 27, 2014
We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others.  An interpreted...
October 18, 2014
A lawyer asked him a question to test him:  Which is the greatest commandment?  -...
October 12, 2014
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are...
October 04, 2014
The Wedding of the Year was just held in Venice:  George Clooney, world’s most eligible...

September 2014

September 27, 2014
The Ten Days of Awe, the High Holy Days of Judaism, began last week with...
September 21, 2014
Who do you think you are? Who said you could do that? Hey, what’s the...
September 14, 2014
If the government declared that the leaves of the trees were money, wrote Frederick Buechner...
September 06, 2014
Ingrained.  Deep in the bone. Things that I have done one hundred and forty times...

August 2014

August 31, 2014
The moral life, says American Catholic poet Marie Howe, is lived out in what we...
August 23, 2014
When Jesus of Nazareth came riding into Jerusalem on his mule, a small group of...
August 16, 2014
For all the Hallelujah choruses, creeds, basilicas and general hoopla that celebrate the name, Messiah,...
August 11, 2014
 “Listen and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but...
August 02, 2014
Jesus, Savior, pilot me, over life’s tempestuous sea . . .  My grandmother loved this...

July 2014

July 26, 2014
In a dream, the Prophet Ezekiel ate a Torah scroll, to show how sweet as...
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