My grandfather Roy was born into a family that pioneered on the high plains of north-west Kansas. He began life in a sod house, a home...

I once heard a preacher say that the Ten Commandments were ten ways of God saying, “Don’t hurt yourself. Please, don’t hurt yourself.” A...

When I hear the words of the Sermon on the Mount, I think about a reflection that a young priest in my diocese wrote regarding the scene...

One enduring memory of my first trip to the Holy Land many years ago is a small chapel half-way down the western slope of the Mount of...

In a lovely bay off Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, an Anglican Church sits just off the sea shore. It is a tourist attraction and you...

It’s Saturday morning at the Nazareth Fitness Center. All present are exercising hard: pumping iron, plying the treadmill, pushing...

It’s 10 AM in a small town down the road-- the kind of town that can be found half-way between "just about anywhere," and "no place in...

Her name is Elsie, she’s 86 and she is hard-of hearing. Tonight, she sits at a table in an elegant hall, the lights are low and a handful...

Before the first leper was ever healed or a single parable was told, he was loved. Before any sinner was embraced; before the crowds...

The Feast of the Epiphany—2022 St. Anthony, Dalhart, Texas There’s a country song with a line that says: “Time, like money, just slips...

As far back as he could remember, he had been searching for something. His parents called him their "perpetual motion machine." His...

Sometimes, among the diapers and the cheerios, in the middle of carpools and homework wars and hockey practice-- in the chaos that...

I grew up in the Midwest where it snows in December and pine trees are as numerous as tumbleweeds in Texas. At Christmas, I miss my home...

Wherever women work or laugh or mourn a lost child they are there. Whenever women wait in pregnant hope, one heart beating with another...

The Fourth Sunday of Advent is Mary’s Sunday in both Year B and Year C of the lectionary. In Year A, the First Gospel is featured and,...

We offer a Homiletical Exegesis and two sample homilies for Advent Week 3. We hope these resources are a blessing to you. Of the three...

“I’m not worthy. Not worthy to touch his sandal straps.” Most Americans won’t relate to this statement from the John the Baptist in...

I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is coming. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. Fire. A blaze can...

“Make straight the way of the Lord! “Prepare a highway for our God!” That’s the theme of today’s sermon from St. John the Baptist; a...

The Third Evangelist begins his birth narratives by simply locating these events and Divine purposes: “In the days of King Herod of Judea...