Parables use earthly stories for divine truths, challenging us to grow spiritually. Discover their lasting impact and modern ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary for the Third Sunday before Advent at the end of this Year B is Mark 1.14-20, the beginning of ...

Further, while the Church has the canonization process for formally recognizing that some especially holy people are already ...

The parables of the Bible have long served as a way to learn from the past and guide one’s own life. That has certainly been ...

If you’re a parent, you’ve likely seen that natural tendency in your children to wander (or run!) from what God says is best—even if the nature of it looks different with each child.

When preparing for my first confession, I was taught that we should live according to ... deeds that go way beyond those listed in the 10 Commandments, as Jesus illustrates today in his parable of the ...

It is tempting to assume that all prayer is beneficial. The reformer Martin Luther knew better, once making the perceptive ...

Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. 'If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, he ...

What caused Dorothy Day to stand out in her time, as it does still, is the way her spiritual life was expressed not only in ...

If we considered people on the other side of a disagreement as not ‘evil’ but ‘mistaken’ or ‘ill-informed,’ it might create ...

As I consider the temptations in my own life, I realize that the current leadership of the evangelical church in America — ...

For three years, from the ages of 13 to 15, I attended an evangelical Christian summer camp in Wears Valley, Tennessee. Billed as an adventure camp (it included activities such as archery and river ...