text "Can faith and hope persist in tragedy?" Four days after the killing of nine members of the historic Emmanuel African…
text "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?" We cannot move forward in faith until we have learned to name our fears and…
text "What makes your heart sing?" The elevator ride from the third floor to the first floor did not take too…
text "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat." As I approached the red light and slowed to stop the car, the toothless woman…
text "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son... Today we are celebrating Trinity Sunday, a feast that found its way into the…
text "If the Spirit descended like a dove, why did Jesus send a parakeet?" As background to the Feast of Pentecost, the parish priest had just finished…
text "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls..." Tucked away on a quite residential street in Edina, the beautiful home at the…
text "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." One of the most popular Christian hymns sung in churches around the world, …
text "Getting knocked off your high horse is not just an occupational hazard for jockeys." My first horse race proved to be a winner. I was twelve years old and in the…
text "You must be shepherds who smell like your sheep." Celebrating the last of six Lenten Fish Dinners, I met with friends at my…
text "Have you anything to eat?" At first the cardboard sign was hard to read, but as the old lady came closer…
text "Do you have anything to hang onto besides your doubt?" The odyssey of every human life brings with it both joy and sorrow, hope and…
text "Listen, I don't want to hear another peep out of you." The allure of Walgreens’ Easter candy section remains an ongoing source…
text "Mom, who's the guy on the donkey?" The reenactment of Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem on Palm…
text "The only thing I'd like to do be able to go out without anyone recognizing me and get a pizza" Pope Francis marked the second anniversary of his election, March 13, 2013 by…
text "Hope: Discovering Light in Darkness." The first rays of sun reflected off my rearview mirror as I drove west on…
text "Faith is the absence of proof." When the hospital elevator’s door reopened, all of us were surprised at…
text "Pay attention to the voice behind the curtain." There is a wonderful scene in the film, The Wizard of Oz, where Toto pulls…
text "The most effective way to do it is to do it." In a recent article entitled “The Lady Vanishes Again”, found in…
text "If you choose, you can make me clean." “Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched the leper and…
text "It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog." Coming home very late from a hospital call, I was listening to a Beatle&rsquo…
text "I hear you knocking, but you can't come in." Once the rhythm and blues song “I Hear You Knocking, But You Can’t…
text "What a friend we have in Jesus." "What a friend we have in Jesus." Some years ago I was invited to a Hymn Sing at a Lutheran Church. I must…
