The Revised Common Lectionary once again presents us, this 21st Sunday after Pentecost, with wonderful lessons that teach essential elements of the Judeo-Christian way. Moreover, those lessons are ...

I worked in a filling station for four years. One day I hurt my back working under the grease rack, and for a while my father, a rural pastor, regularly drove me 12 miles from our small town to ...

Christian believers stake their lives on prayer. They make the counter-cultural assertion that the nuts and bolts of this life are not the only part of the story of existence. By praying, they live ...

To vary Oscar Wilde, the Church’s liturgical life often imitates art by being strikingly appropriate to a particular moment. That was certainly true on Monday of the Third Week of Lent, 2023 — a day ...

Today is not officially "Leper Sunday" in the Church, but it might as well be. In the first reading, we hear about King Naaman, the leper who was cleansed by Elisha after the prophet directed him to ...

Have you ever had trouble trusting God? I have. God seems to do things quite differently than I would. Most of the time, He’s not interested in my interpretation of the situation as He can see the ...

In today's first reading from 2 Kings, we are told of the healing of Naaman, a Syrian commander in the army of his king, Benhadad II. In the Gospel we become acquainted with the uniquely Lucan ...

Like a warm breeze on a perfect summer morning, a voice of grace and compassion rings across more than 3,000 years in this Sunday’s reading from the Hebrew Bible. The voice doesn’t belong to a grown ...