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The Good Word
April 24, 2014
Saint Thomas and the disciples weren’t ready for resurrection. They had to be won over by the wonderful.
The Good Word
April 19, 2014
Sometimes pleasures and joys slide one over the other nbsp They pour so quickly into our lives we begin to believe the cup of blessings can rsquo t run dry nbsp But then some crack appears nbsp The blessing cup becomes hourglass and happiness begins to pour away nbsp nbsp While still a gr
Flannery O'Connor
The Good Word
April 17, 2014
So many in the world are blind, not to know their need for a savior
The Good Word
April 16, 2014
Religion seeks to make routine that which, by its nature, cannot be captured.
The Good Word
April 10, 2014
Killing Jesus is a sure and swift read nbsp Bill O rsquo Reilly and Martin Dugard write like newscasters rapidly analyzing facts Here is the entry into Jerusalem Just on the other side of Bethpage the two disciples stand waiting nbsp One holds the bridle of a donkey that has never been ridden
The Song of Songs by Marc Chagall
The Good Word
April 03, 2014
Lazarus died twice In both instances Jesus was far from his side The first time he died in the uncertain hope of his people The second Lazarus entered death rsquo s darkness knowing Christ rsquo s resurrection nbsp Have you ever thought about how you rsquo d like to die Most of us don rsquo
The Good Word
March 27, 2014
Many of us first visited Grover rsquo s Corners when we were in school Do you remember this scene from Thorton Wilder rsquo s nbsp Our Town Young Emily Webb has married her childhood sweetheart George Gibbs In fact when the play skips ahead to Act III she rsquo s born him a child and died whil
The Good Word
March 20, 2014
In some cultures the stranger is seen "as special, even sacred." So too in the Gospel. How do we receive the immigrant 'other' in the U.S.?
Stuart Damon and Lesley Ann Warren in TV's 1965 adaption of Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
The Good Word
March 13, 2014
Sometimes the best way to hear one story anew is by way of another even one that at first glance seems quite disparate nbsp So as you ponder the Transfiguration of Christ consider Cinderella nbsp Yes one is evangelical witness the other only fable nbsp But as fairytales often convey d
The Good Word
March 06, 2014
In this century, The Father of Lies has produced two utterly bogus, but brilliant, claims about our own humanity.