I am always amazed at this time of the year. The beauty of the leaves, the blue sky, and cooler air, all announcing the coming of a new season, Fall. No one has to flip a switch, or pay for the event to occur, or receive so many clicks on their Instagram account. It comes on its own, without ...
I was so heartened this week to see the Pope in France. Pope Leo is a Christian leader who is recognizable by media standards. I was taken with the sight of hundreds of thousands who came to Paris to greet him. What spoke to me most was not denominational membership so much as an ordinary ...
This week we read the Gospel of St. Matthew 20:1-16. If you recall, it is the simple story of a landowner hiring day laborers for his vineyard. The story is interesting and straightforward. The landowner needs workers and, as in our own time, goes down to the town square and finds laborers ...
The other day a friend of mine was in tears in my living room; her son, who had married, was refusing to baptize the new baby. The person I was talking with was distraught, for she was certain that her new grandchild was never going to be allowed into heaven. I sat there and listened as a ...
Are you enjoying God’s grandeur? For me, the last days in August are a special time. The trees are full and magnificent, swaying with their heavy heads of leaves; the relatives are getting ready to go home to various cities, and children are trying to get their parents to buy school ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In her 1994 memoir, Dolly Parton recounts in vivid detail the place where she found God. It was an abandoned church, in rural Tennessee where she grew up, that had become known as a haven for sex, drugs and violence. Rather than see the used condoms on the floor, the ...
