(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This Sunday’s readings may help explain why there are more than 450 English translations of the Bible. Linguists offer courses on the English words we put into the mouths of…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) On this last day of summer, many of us can look back joyfully on a vacation we took with family and friends. We may even fall back on the peace…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) As we contemplate and exalt the holiness of Christ’s cross this Sunday, we can also imagine the fear that paved the way to that exaltation. Sunday’s first reading (Numbers 21:4b-9)…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Sarcasm can be seen as an intelligent person’s alternative to cursing. Both are ignited by passions and often aimed at people who disagree with us. Done artfully and with a…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We all inherited the right to claim God’s name as our surname: “I Am!” “Being” is our family inheritance. It comes with the responsibility to invest it for the kind…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) If you’re a movie fan, try reading this Sunday’s letter from Paul to the Hebrews (Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13) as George C. Scott might have in his Oscar-winning role as General…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Humanity has created many false gods since the real One created us. Only one of our ungodly creations promises to be the end of us, though. Revenge. Jesus and the…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) In this troubled world, faith in one’s future is better guided by blessed assurance than cursed insurance. The lack of faith we put in the insurance industry is borne out…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Faith-based knowledge is power—when applied for the sake of beneficiaries. But some keep such knowledge to themselves. The faithless both disbelieve and mock such knowledge, making the faithful fear that…
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A good editor could have distilled Sunday’s first reading from Genesis down to a paragraph. This is the account of Abraham trying to talk God out of destroying Sodom and…