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...

As we approach the Feast of the Transfiguration, it may serve us well to revisit “generic homilies.” Texts in multiple attestation...

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

During the pandemic, pastors who may have preached a dozen funeral homilies over the course of typical year, are now presiding over...

In “Preaching as a Social Act,” Don Wardlaw offers a homiletic schema that includes three over-lapping spheres: the world of the Bible,...

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...

In 2013, Pope Francis spoke to the Holy See Diplomatic Corps, saying, “One of the titles of the Bishop of Rome is Pontiff-- that is, a...

God’s Word offers space to explore, not lessons to bore. Keeping an eye out for the three-dimension properties of a biblical text enables...

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...

3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time January 22, 2021 Dr. Susan Fleming McGurgan What are you looking for? That seemingly innocuous question; that...