Mar 18, 2024
One of the hardest places to be angry with a person is at the supper table. It's nearly impossible to share a meal with someone with whom you are at odds with. Either you won't enjoy the food you are eating or you will be forced to leave the table and eat somewhere else. The flip side of this is when you are in...
Mar 11, 2024
The story is told of a man who was on a business trip and stayed
in a hotel that had a bug problem. There were bugs all over his
room. He complained about this to the management and later wrote a
letter of complaint to the main office of the hotel
chain.
Sometime later he received a letter signed by the President
of...
Mar 4, 2024
I'm not very familiar with figs or fig trees. My only connection
might be that I enjoy a Fig Newton every once in a while, that's
about it. However, a fig tree becomes a central point of emphasis
for what Jesus teaches in chapter 11 of Mark's gospel.
Jesus and his disciples are heading into Jerusalem, and
Jesus...
Feb 26, 2024
"Father Damien was a priest who became famous for his willingness to serve lepers. He moved to Kalawao—a village on the island of Molokai, in Hawaii, that had been quarantined to serve as a leper colony. For 16 years, he lived in their midst. He learned to speak their language. He bandaged their wounds, embraced...
Feb 19, 2024
In August of 2003, the Church of the Holy Cross in New York City was broken into twice. In the first break-in, thieves made away with a metal moneybox that had been resting next to a votive candle rack. Three weeks later, vandals escaped with something much more valuable: they unbolted a 4-foot long, 200-pound plaster...