We call it Palm Sunday because maybe they were palm branches that were thrown into the road in front of him as he approached the city-a...

There was a place called Bethany. And like Boring, Oregon or Greasy, Oklahoma, Sleepy Eye, Minnesota or Cranky Corner, Louisiana -- real...

Parables are curious things… That’s what I said last week when we read the Parable of the Unproductive Fig Tree . I also said that the...

In his beautiful book of narrative theology, In the Shelter: Finding Welcome in the Here and Now , poet and healer Pádraig Ó Tuama...

At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to [Jesus], “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” He said to them, “Go and...

In many cultures there is an ancient custom of giving a tenth of each year's income to some holy use. For Christians, to observe the...

I was officiating at a funeral a while back. I was working then with a funeral home I don't work with all that often, and somehow this...

Sometimes we think we are turning the other cheek, when in essence we are not. An old Chinese proverb says, "If your enemy wrongs you,...

…Whenever I hear the nature of God portrayed like an equation, something that can be manipulated towards a result—“solve for X”—I get my...

A Reflection for THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY… You know the Tune… Sing it with me now…. 1 I will make you fishers of men, Fishers of...

James Tissot : The Brow of the Hill near Nazareth The people sit expectantly in their seats. Jesus, their hometown boy, is about to bring...

I began this column sitting on a plane on my way to the Holy Land (not California). This is my second trip leading a group of students...

The wedding reception was rocking and the wine had run out. Wine that the Psalmist says, “gladdens the heart”. My puritanical upbringing...

I was sitting with some Church friends the other night. We were talking about how we all grew up having to memorize things but that...

… I say that if you want to know who you are, if you are more than academically interested in that particular mystery, you could do a lot...

We are all called to be mothers of God, for God is always waiting to be born. — Meister Eckart, 1260 – 1327 She enters our Decembers with...

“I bring you Good News of a Great Joy which will be for All the people”   Luke 2 THERE IS NOT ONE of us whose life has not already been...

In his book Anam Cara, John O’Donohue has a section called “The Mystery of Approach,” in which he writes, “For years I have had an idea...

GIVE US GRACE that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in...

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall...