The author of this Sunday’s selection from Deuteronomy (we’ll assume he was a man, because women didn’t have the leisure time to learn to read and write) was writing history in the form of a homily he ...

From the risk of creation in Genesis through the startling visions of Revelation, the physical human body commands the Bible’s narrative. God makes the earth creature (adama) in the divine image and ...

This Sunday’s readings call the faithful to reconsider the most holy body and blood of Christ in light of extreme divisions facing our country and world. This Sunday, the readings draw out three ...

I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...

One of the most common descriptions of the church in the Bible is the body of Christ. What Jesus Christ did when he was here in his physical body, he wants us to continue to do today. We are the body ...

take into you so that it becomes a piece of your inmost self. Surrency’s poem creates a question from the challenge St. Augustine gave his people when he preached on the sacrament of the Eucharist in ...

We live in a world of vast economic injustice, crippling poverty, and wealthy churches. So did “golden-mothed” preacher John Chrysostom. In recent years, believers from all segments of the Christian ...

I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...

The Apostle Paul says in Romans 12:5, “For we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.” Paul compared the church to a human body, in which each part has a ...