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It is that season again. We prepare. We wait. We anticipate. On this first Sunday of Advent 2023, Jesus tells us, “Be watchful! Be...
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It is that season again. We prepare. We wait. We anticipate. On this first Sunday of Advent 2023, Jesus tells us, “Be watchful! Be...
As far as images of God go, I am really not a fan of Our Lord, King of the Universe. The emphasis on God as dominating male conqueror,...
If I am honest, I relate the most to the final servant in today’s Gospel. When I receive something good or special, I worry over it: What...
Today's Readings We are so close to Advent we can practically smell it. Our readings today make that very clear. Even though we are still...
The leaves are falling and the evening darkness creeps ever earlier as the end of the liturgical year draws closer. In just a few more...
Today's Readings Here we are amid the fall, closing in on the cusp of the great Advent season with many of us perhaps enrolled in...
Today's Readings Today’s passage from Paul’s Letter to the Philippians is a source of comfort for many people that I know. However, for...
It was my eighth-grade graduation, and I was standing alone in front of an audience. My small school had a tradition where each student...
Today's Readings When reading today’s Gospel, I was sincerely challenged on a response to the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. All...
Today's Readings One of the phrases I have unabashedly preached as a parent is: There’s nothing we can’t work through, as long as you’re...
Today's Readings One of the greatest gifts of being a lover of books and good words, is the constant invitation to learn and grow. Books...
Today's Readings So here we are at the seemingly benign Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time. So many major holidays of the church have...
Today's Readings I am learning to dig deeply into the places that hurt The Canaanite woman knows she is not of Jesus’ people and yet she...
Today's Readings Today’s gospel sets the scene of the disciples at sea braving a harsh night. Imagine huge waves crashing into your boat...
Today's Readings Today’s gospel, the Transfiguration, transports me back in time to the hollers and hills of West Virginia…to Nazareth...
Today's Readings I’ve been having very vivid dreams lately. Almost every night, I’ve been dreaming about people from throughout my life...
Today's Readings "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole...
Today's Readings The seed that falls in the fertile field, Under joy and showers, good fruit it will yield. The Word goes forth from the...
Today's Readings Gentleness. Isn’t it true that we all long to be treated gently? Isn’t gentleness what we’re searching for when we rush...
Today's Readings A few years ago I would have rolled my eyes at a Psalm like today’s. Wading through deep bouts of chronic depression and...