Mission Is Who We Are

I once brought a high school youth group to New York to work at the soup kitchen at Holy Apostles.  They saw a lot of things that open...

The prophet Isaiah paints a picture of the new world God is creating from the old as stunning today as it was so many years ago.  No ...

The big theological debate of Jesus’ day was about the resurrection.  The Pharisees, along with Jesus, believed in it.  The Sadducees di...

The Gospel for All Saints Day begins with a difficult teaching of Jesus.  “Then [Jesus] looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed ar...

When my children were young, my mother gave them a book.  It was called I Never Say I’m Thankful but I Am .  It was about all the things ...

Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed...

I often get Jesus and my mother confused.  It is understandable.  My mother spoke on his behalf with some regularity. One of his lessons ...