(For the audio version of this post, please visit: ) Our most beloved fairy tales teach lessons about the dangers of wishes. Stories like “Aladdin and his Magic Lamp” and “The Monkey’s Paw” involve people given three of them. Thanks…
(For the audio version of this post, please select: ) “The Bad Seed” is one of the scariest horror stories ever written. Its author William March makes us ponder, what if a child could be born bad—even murderous—and no amount…
For the audio version of this blog, visit: Them that’s got shall haveThem that’s not shall loseSo the Bible says and it still is newsMama may have, Papa may haveBut God bless the child that’s got his own, that’s…
[Originally posted here 12 years ago.] (For the audio version of this post, visit ) Poor King Herod. Which one? Take your pick. They were all pathetic individuals in their lust for power under the boot of the Roman Empire. …
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Read the entire chapter from which Sunday’s first reading came (2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a) and one might think the prophet Elisha was the Old Testament version of Christ. He brings…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Bullying has become an art on social media. It takes many forms, from the disguised insults of “frenemies” to the open mockery of cyber harassers. But this is an ancient…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Last week we quoted from the new book “If There Is No God,” in which Jewish Author and Scholar Dennis Prager argues that Judeo-Christian values must overcome secular reason if…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Earthly food tends to support a secular system of feelings, giving us reasons to desire life or death, depending on whether our bellies are full or starving. Food from God…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship. Then he said, “If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our company. This is indeed…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Different is the key word in the readings for Pentecost. It’s repeated several times, but it doesn’t define Pentecost. The Holy Spirit does, by turning different into the same—or more…