Back in the time of Christ, working in a vineyard and pruning vines was as common as filling a car with gas and driving off down the...

We’ve seen lots of paintings titled “The Good Shepherd.” Maybe even have one at home. Some have Jesus standing there in the midst of a...

If you like books about espionage you know about the Witness Protection Program. In this program, the federal government provides key...

Poor Thomas… It doesn’t seem to matter that every other disciple doubted at one time or another. It doesn’t seem to matter that the other...

I have a horse named Buddy. He is gentle and eager to please. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a lot of self-confidence. He lets other...

Preaching Notes: Twice each year, on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the reading of the gospel becomes a liturgical event in its own right....

There are seasons in my life --and maybe in yours-- when it seems like the Good News whispers while the Bad News shouts. A friend faces a...

They had been driven from their homes like cattle… forced to march through rugged land to a foreign country. We’re talking about the...

St. Paul is writing a letter to the Christians at Corinth because he is very familiar with that congregation. After all, he founded the...

It was the kind of day when the hills shimmered in the heat and the sun offered the illusion of water- just a little further down the...

From his miraculous birth to his baptism in the waters of the Jordan— from the feeding of the five thousand to the empty tomb on Easter...

If God is for us, who can be against us? The colt stood saddled, his eyes as calm as the Pool of Siloam. Then, the moment I pulled the ...

There’s a Texas Country song that goes like this: Storms running through the Midwest Like a bandit out on the loose. All the clouds are...

I have set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the...

We are soon entering the season of Lent, and for the second year, we will enter it masked and distanced, sanitized, gloved and Covid...

Imagine you are invited to join on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. At the airport you are met by your guide and ushered onto the bus, off...

Does this gospel sound familiar to you? It should. After all, it contains a lot of familiar things: A mother-in-law with a headache....

It is Sabbath morning in Capernaum, and the smell of last night’s catch still lingers on the breeze and rises from the boats now anchored...

Demons. Now, there’s a modern-day concept!” Demons? No sooner than I read that word, I was already considering the first or second...

Come and See Homily for the Third Sunday of the Year It was a quiet night in the lakeside village of Santiago Atitlán. Sounds travel far...