(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Sunday’s Old Testament reading has real life application to our modern lives (2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a). It involves a “woman of influence” and her husband who felt their place in…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Comedy is funny because it tells the truth. And though finding comedy in the Bible can be difficult, Mel Brooks mined the Old Testament for comedy gold in his “History…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) As the Godly mission to save humanity from itself is depicted throughout the Bible, it almost reads like “mission creep.” That’s a military term defined as “the gradual or incremental…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This is the central question for anyone trying to understand the solemnity of Christ’s body and blood. But trying to answer it unwisely can soon get silly. “Am I eating…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) For more than a half-century now, this Sunday’s gospel reading has appeared in stadiums across the U.S. Posted on placards as simply, “John 3:16,”curious fans looked it up to discover:…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Resurrection” is another word for change, particularly positive change—which too often we tend to recognize only in the long run, once we look back at the lives we’ve lived. In…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We moderns share the same challenge Christ’s disciples faced after watching their Master rise and disappear from sight. What now? Where do we go from here? If we believe ascension…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A Psychology Today article says God-believers and non-believers use their brains differently. Non-believers apparently use higher-order brain networks. For them, seeing is believing, and believing is supported through reasoning. This…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) I took the family to see “Big George Foreman,” a biopic about this man’s boxing career. By the end it tells us about more than that. There are good lessons…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) During the Fridays of Lent leading up to Easter, the priests of our parish did their best NOT to imitate the way Jesus’ apostles reacted to the news they received…