A young woman entered pharmacy school after college. From time to time she came home and worshipped with her parents.  One Sunday evening, after one of her visits, the minister…

Jesus’s relationships with women, as depicted in the Bible, were so special, so different from those of the ordinary men of his time and of other religious leaders. Temple University…

A couple, visiting in Korea, saw a father and his son working in a rice paddy. The old man guided the heavy plow as the boy pulled it."I guess they…

Anne Lamott, in her book Traveling Mercies, describes a time when a fellow church member told about adopting her son through an organization called ASK, Adopt Special Kids.  Part of the adoption…

Unfortunately, a lot of people are like mummies, all wrapped up in themselves.  And they don't want to become unwrapped. All they do is come unwound at the thought of…

When a group of tourists saw a legless war veteran go to the Shrine at Lourdes to bathe in its healing and miraculous waters, they whispered and laughed, "Does he…

In the midst of our Lenten journey, God doesn't see us as everyone else sees us.  People around us may see us as cool, successful, unattractive, popular, old, whatever. It…

There is a story of a beggar who was sitting across the street from an artist's studio.  The artist saw him and thought he would make an interesting portrait study.…

The cheering stopped and the crowd size dwindled when Jesus began to talk more and more about a cross.  In the early part of his ministry Jesus talked about the…