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Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen. This first line of Sunday’s second reading from Hebrews (11:1) is profound. It is counterintuitive — we operate ordinarily on proof, things we can see, figure out, measure. “Seeing is believing,” we say, like Thomas…
Do you think humans have advanced any morally since the time of Jesus? This weekend’s Scriptures make me wonder! They could be news stories from today’s world. Greed today, as in Jesus’ day, leads to embezzlement and Ponzi schemes, estrangements in families over inheritances, the inequity between the wealthy and…
This Gospel poses problems for preachers! It has two lessons about prayer. First, Jesus teaches his disciples the Our Father. It would be pretty safe to preach about that! Next he tells a parable about a person who arrives late, after all the town’s gates and doors are locked for…
At one point in my life, I was in the Middle East with a study group, and we visited a Bedouin encampment in the sand desert. We got to see a hospitality tent — a very wide tent with its flaps pinned open, with cushions spread on rugs inside, waiting…
In his 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers), Pope Francis uses the parable of the good Samaritan, our Sunday’s Gospel, to unwrap his main teaching. The victim lying by the road is not just an individual in need of charity. It is humanity itself that lies there, broken and wounded…
In 1630, John Winthrop urged his fellow Massachusetts Bay colonists to aspire to “be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.” Later John Kennedy used Winthrop’s image to describe how he wanted his own administration to lead, and Ronald Reagan was also fond…
I used to hike a lot, and it took me three tries to make it to the end of Angels Landing trail in Zion National Park. After exhausting switchbacks, the trail ended with portions of hand-over-hand chain stepping and then a narrow rock bridge, with 2,000-foot dropoffs on either side…
Recently someone told me about their family reunions. Because the grandparents were a farm couple with large numbers of siblings and children, the reunions are very large. So in addition to nametags, the different descendant branches of the family wear shirts of different colors! And there is some food provided,…
It is Trinity Sunday. What does Trinity mean to you? The statement that God is love begins to be filled out as we see God’s works. God is a creating movement of love at each nanosecond of existence in the unfinished universe; God is a saving movement of love —…
When a baby is born, it must immediately transition from dependence on its mother for supplying oxygen to its cells and take its first breath. It is a powerful moment. Breath is a sign of life. In the creation account in Genesis (2:7), God blew the breath of life into…
