To be poor in spirit is to be spiritually bankrupt…why would anyone take a chance on you? This is a spiritual bottom where all the bravo and puffed out chest…
Rather than trusting God, we want to have clear cut guidelines about who is “in” and who is “out” of the Kingdom. Mostly, we want utter certainty that we are…
Who do we identify with in the story? I’m guessing that we want to identify with the prophet and then with Jesus in the gospel reading. Yet the bones are…
What is truth? We ask this question a lot these days. Most of the time we’re talking about factual truth…there doesn’t even seem to be much of that going on…
This is especially touchy for Americans…just the use of the word “American” paints the picture. What we really mean by “American” is someone from the U.S. There’s much more to…