(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.…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
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…
(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…
(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,…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) On the fourth Sunday of Lent we celebrate reconciliation. This word has a couple different meanings, but in Sunday’s readings those differences are reconciled. The first: “to restore friendly relations;…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Mankind’s most serious sin is taking the Lord’s name in vain; not so much the GD and JC stuff, but the big I AM. We don’t often appreciate the importance…