I hope all of you voted this past week, and I hope the people you voted for did not get elected. That’s right, I hope your guys and gals didn’t get elected, and I challenge you today to get to know the candidate you don’t like who got elected. Read more about them, talk to…
In today’s reading St. Paul says something quite new and mysterious about time, that we are called to redeem time. We say lots of things about time, that you’re ahead of your time or behind the times, that you’re big time or small time, that you can save time or even kill time. But Paul…
Tuesday is all Saints day in the Western church, and like so many things in our faith life, what we understand upon hearing the word ‘saint’ has little to do with what our scriptures meant by it. Our understanding of saints is now way too big or way too small. We make saints too big…
Somehow the cross is a powerful moral and spiritual invitation that is presented to us in the significant occasions of our lives and every single day. It is as if at the funeral of a loved one, or our children’s weddings and baptisms, we are to peer beyond the emotions of the day, to find…
Today’s reading from the letter of Paul to the Galatians is not a feel good Bible verse quoted a lot for motivational speeches or weddings. I won’t be reading it at Hagop and Angie’s wedding later today, and you won’t be seeing it cross-stitched on any pillow or t-shirt any time soon. Yet the verse…
Following Jesus, his great disciple Paul continues this dedication to evidence-based faith. This is especially clear in today’s assigned reading. ‘Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?’ Paul urges us to continuously look in the mirror of our faith. …
May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but a new creation is everything! Gal 6:14-18 In today’s reading, the Apostle Paul’s authority is again being challenged, and Paul again shows…