Dear Friends: The heart and mind long to be understood and to understand. Chief among human qualities that bear the image of the Creator are speaking and hearing–the gift of communication by which we know that we are not alone. We are desperate to know this. Our cell phones, emails, instant messaging, text pages, MP3
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A Word of Grace – February 14, 2011
Dear Friends: The class was over and I’d answered the last student question. When I was putting my lecture materials in the briefcase I saw that one woman remained in the classroom. She was still seated, staring sadly off into space. She was one of the older students, probably in her late thirties I guessed.
A Word of Grace – February 7, 2011
Dear Friends: We have a tendency to overlook the genealogies and logistical inventories of the Bible, but we can always learn something if we reflect on them for a while. The genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1 tells us that the Christ came to us through the great and very ordinary, adulterers and murderers, the
A Word of Grace – January 31, 2011
Dear Friends: They came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Can you
A Word of Grace – January 24, 2011
Dear Friends: Jesus’ last instruction to his disciples was this: “I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high” (Lk 24:49). The disciples had just been traumatized by the crucifixion and shocked by the appearance of the resurrected