Faith calms the storm in our lives when we are tempted to say, like the disciples, "Jesus, God, Teacher and Healer: do you not care that we perish under the weight of the troubles of the world?"

One person's nasty weed is another's beautiful bloom. Only love makes the difference.

In the box was a much loved Bible. Every page has been read, many annotated with one woman's insights, joys, fears and struggles. This Holy Book has been made more so by witness.

Whatever happened to keeping Sunday as a Holy Sabbath?

Trinity Sunday is one of the most difficult concepts to quantify, qualify, and explain.

If we listen, the Holy Spirit will guide us to use the right vocabulary, even if we do not use words at all.

Ours are the eyes... the hands... the feet. We are called to serve

Can I honestly say there is hope for the world when I turn on the television news or listen to the radio and hear violence, death, and destruction?

In order to have any hope for the future at all, we need awareness of the present

The shepherd leads us out of the pen, into the troubled world.

Hope, as an idea, a concept, threads its way through every element in our lives, so how can there be people who feel without any hope at all?

It's been a quiet week in Lake Galilee, Nazareth, Jesus' hometown, out there on the edge of the world. 

This night, this holy night, when Jesus says goodbye for now, is the heart of the story. 

Palm Sunday is a day for singing and joyful acclaim - but a cloud hovers on the horizon. 

We are all a slave to time, marching ever forward. Seasons change - summer construction season to fall, almost winter to early thaw, then second winter before a brief spring, back to summer construction. Days have a natural cycle

And then, in grateful appreciation of God’s presence and grace, help our neighbors, our loved ones, and the stranger in our midst, wherever that midst may be.

From our armchairs today, we look at a broken world. We want Jesus to come and overturn the wrongs and the evils, but what if Jesus attacked the constitution of our nation instead and tore it asunder?

Does this couple follow God's decree and promise yet again, or do they manage the current community the same, safe way they have for 13 years, ignoring the new vision?

We will never learn a satisfactory reason behind the senseless violence; the best theories in the world remain speculation.

I don’t know what happened with that gentleman, what he decided, but he taught me a valuable lesson: