My wife and I have been reading from the Deuter-canonical Book of Maccabees lately. In it there are exciting stories…
“On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the…
In 1955 I was invited to attend a youth festival in Warsaw, Poland. About 30,000 foreigners had flocked into the country to see for themselves how the…
In the Gospel of John, we read that as Jesus walked, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples…
Receiving mercy and grace in time of need In the Letter to the Hebrews we read, we do not have a…
Nothing makes you confront the reality of your own mortality as facing a life-threatening illness. I was diagnosed with stage…
Introduction: The following selection of quotes from Life Together are taken from Bonhoeffer’s 1938 reflections on the character of Christian community, based on…
When UNESCO declared 1995 as the “Year Against Intolerance”, the Nicaraguan Institute for Culture and the Cultural Association “New Acropolis”…
Growing up in a Christian environment, my family learned that there are three enemies of the soul: the world, the flesh, and…
There is a passage in the third chapter of Paul’s letter to the Galatians which is disarming to most Christians. The…