The first sign that the kingdom of God is not what you expect comes not so much in Jesus rsquo use of parables to describe it but in the content of those parables Why describe a kingdom by comparing it to the most ordinary of things like shrubs seeds and nesting birds It is a sign that God is n

Even before Darwin scientists were studying the origin of species and though some might think there is a perpetual and permanent war between science and religion it is simply not the case St John Paul II asked in a letter to George V Coyne S J director of the Vatican Observatory ldquo If

God chose the Israelites to be his people his nation his children And so they are his children a family established through the covenant God ratified with Abraham At the heart of the covenant was the understanding that Israel ldquo would acknowledge that the Lord is God rdquo and that they wo

Sometimes I find myself in a line-up with a bunch of strangers shuffling down the aisle in church and I forget that I am standing with my family on the pathway to heaven about to partake of the body and blood of Christ offered once for all time for the salvation of the world Perhaps you have walk

The Greek word pneuma can be translated ldquo wind breath or spirit rdquo So when the sound at the door is ldquo like the rush of a violent wind rdquo you should answer and you had better be prepared to have your world turned upside down Or right-side up Because according to the Acts of th

Still reeling from the trauma of the crucifixion and then the shattering of all earthly expectations by Jesus rsquo resurrection from the dead the apostles trying to make sense of the common Jewish beliefs regarding the Messiah and the apocalyptic establishment of God rsquo s kingdom pose a simp