The Sunday lectionary reading for the Second Sunday before Advent in Year B is Mark 13.1–8. This feels a little odd, in that ...

Making excuses or canceling plans can be tempting, even too easy. When it comes to our relationships with God, we often have ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary for the Third Sunday before Advent at the end of this Year B is Mark 1.14-20, the beginning of ...

The ultimate answer to the question “What can the righteous do?” in Psalm 11 is to decide, as David did in verse 1, “In the ...

Older Americans hold an outsize share of the nation’s wealth and power. Television loves watching their children scramble for ...

It is the responsibility of every concerned citizen to get out and vote. If every Christian voted based on biblical ...

If we ever needed to use our vote, use our voice, to ask whose policies will help the poor, we sure do need to now. As long ...

Luke 7:36-50 tells one of my favorite stories ... He senses he will soon die for the gospel, so he calls for the elders of Ephesus to meet him in Miletus. His ministry to them offers incredible ...

At the same time, I recognize that for many Christians, examples of persecution can feel distant, abstract, unrelatable, or ...

As the U.S. bishops began their fall general assembly Nov. 11, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio urged his brother bishops to beg ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...