My Mother can still recite the blessing in German nbsp She learned it as a child for New Year rsquo s Day when folks in Rush County in central Kansas would go from house to house offering a benediction in return for food drink or coinIch w nsche Euch Gl ck zum neuen Jahr Gesundheit Frie

No one can love us like family, and no one can hurt like family.

One soldier and then another imitated the one who came among us as an infant.

This is the seventh entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles The first entry covered some of the major critical technical and background issues that will concern us as we read through and comment on the Acts The second post found here considered the prologue to t

'Deeper than woman complementing man, Mary is human, as utterly particular and fragile as any one of us.' A reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Jack Miles is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning work nbsp God A Biography nbsp 1996 In the most recent issue of nbsp The Atlantic nbsp Dec 2014 he shares a portion of his own story The former Jesuit seminarian was so impressed by the audacious atheism of the philosopher Bert