Click here for daily readings Have you ever been falsely accused and felt you did nothing to deserve the blame? In today's Gospel, one criminal rebuked another, saying, “Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly…but this man has done nothing criminal.”

Click here for daily readings When it’s all said and done, the vast majority of all human hang ups, concerns, rules, and boundaries will pass away. The structures for governing society, social norms, and even morality itself, will no longer be needed when we arrive in the heavenly Jerusalem. Here on earth, we are limited

Click here for daily readings “Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things…” Most of us are familiar with this Gospel passage. It’s often used to point out that the Christian response to others is not always soft words, but sometimes righteous anger. Yet what is it really

Click here for daily readings Way back in 1971, there was a TV movie called “The Homecoming: A Christmas Story.” It introduced the world to the Depression-era Walton family, which became a TV series a year or so later. One scene from the original movie always stuck with me: The Walton kids were teaching younger

Click here for daily readings Today’s Gospel reading may strike us as the way we are called to live as Christians. We have been given many things from God: gifts, talents, intellect, family; and we are to use them to build up the Kingdom. We build our talents through education, practice, and action. We are

Click here for daily readings Forty years ago I underwent a simple out-patient procedure: metatarsal surgery. It was simple, that is, until I had a stroke the evening of the surgery. Eleven days later I was still in the hospital struggling to walk, eat, and talk. The confusion of those first weeks was only the

Click here for daily readings What is something you would love to see right now? The coral reefs of Fiji, outer space, or the colors outside our visual spectrum? What about a loved one or your best friend from college?  The human experience is saturated with beauty because it is saturated with God, who is

Click here for daily readings The readings this Sunday are full of difficult images: a day blazing like an oven that will turn evildoers into stubble, the Lord coming to rule with justice, the destruction of the Temple, wars and earthquakes and plagues, persecution of those who follow Jesus, mighty signs from the sky... Jesus

Click here for daily readings “Why, Lord?” I cried as I sat in the van outside my doctor’s office and begged Him again for healing. Tears rolled down my cheeks, and my soul screamed in anguish within me. I had suffered so long and had prayed and pursued many promising avenues of healing with little