(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) If we were to boil humanity’s sins down to one, vanity might be the resulting conglomeration. This word has many single-word definitions, and all of them end in less. Useless,…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) If you believe that bit of wisdom in our headline, people of faith are lucky. It came from the mind of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, an ancient Roman philosopher. And although he…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) You don’t realize how much you love someone until you almost lose them. Married people of a certain age can experience that feeling as we grow older and our loved…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Many Christians working in the medical community know how lepers felt in Biblical times. Some employers in that field see faith as an infection that could cause harm to a…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Sunday’s reading from Job is a real downer (Jb 7:1-4, 6-7). He speaks of drudgery and restlessness. He seems to have lost hope in the God he thought was his…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Leave it to a demon to understand the purity of Jesus—and to fear it. “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?,” the possessor of a human victim…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The Western mind is rarely awestruck anymore. Even if Jesus were to appear and say something good and true and beautiful to someone on the street corner, that person might…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We are born with a vacancy to fill. We can’t bear its emptiness. God sends us helpers throughout our life to find the right tenant, but our adolescent spirits start…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times—according to online sources. Today it is again the center of…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Families can be SO annoying. Mutual agitation seems so embedded in human DNA that even ancient sages like Sirach had to pull back on our leashes as we started snapping…