(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The readings for Easter Sunday give us two pictures of Peter the Rock: One telling us that, before seeing and believing the significance of his Master’s empty tomb, he didn’t…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Palm Sunday is a study of the difference between fate and destiny. The events presented seem predetermined (fated) to ensure our ability to accept the salvation we’re offered (destiny). Let’s…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Last week we addressed academia’s focus on our guaranteed mortality. To counter that study in finality, we cited the gospel reading that forms the kernel of this week’s message: “Unless…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The latest issue of Case Western Reserve University’s alumni magazine featured an article titled “A Mindset Reboot: Grappling with the prospect of a finite human future.” That title isn’t surprising,…
(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…