Play Your Holy Card
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Anyone paying their respects at the wake of a friend or relative has the opportunity to come away from it with a holy card. It’s customary to take one of…
Ascend and Pass Over
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The Ascension seems like the perfect ending to the Easter season. This Sunday we read about Christ’s apostles looking up in the air after their Master gives them final instructions.…
Faith and Love Kneaded More than Ever
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) He spoke to them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was…
“Give AND Take, my Wife … Please.”
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Marriage is the gift that keeps giving—especially for comedians. Gag writers have drawn from this bottomless well of material since well before last century’s “King of the One-Liners” Henny Youngman…
Demigods Shelter in Deception’s Shade
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This Sunday’s readings show that ancient places of worship could also be murder scenes. Murder replaced worship in the hearts of many demigods who fancied themselves as acting in God’s…
A Hope Opera for Our World’s Soap Opera
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The gospels often work together like a beautiful jazz opera. The art world fused jazz and opera together in 1935 for George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. The story, taking place…
Faith Thrives Outside Doubt’s Shadow
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Thomas gets a bad rap as THE most famous doubter. But like all of us, he wasn’t there when Jesus appeared to the other apostles. Up to that point they…
How a grave becomes a birthplace
Judas killed himself after surrendering his Master to certain death. The other eleven apostles eventually found the courage to testify about their new lives, made possible after Jesus conquered death. As Easter Sunday’s readings open, a newly reborn Peter makes…
What the Good Thief Gave Us
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Even the most secular cultures worship idols. We’re passionate about celebrities and celebrity—as well as the accompanying wealth and fame. Most of us idolize from a distance, but if we…
The Prodigal Daughter
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Any parent of a rebellious teenage girl might feel left out after reading the parable of The Prodigal Son. That’s Christ’s tale of the boy who blew his Father’s inheritance,…