In the days when Catholics fasted from midnight before receiving Communion and were convinced that the odds were quite slim that Protestants would go to heaven, my mother had great admiration for a ...

This Sunday’s readings call the faithful to reconsider the most holy body and blood of Christ in light of extreme divisions facing our country and world. This Sunday, the readings draw out three ...

One of the most common descriptions of the church in the Bible is the body of Christ. What Jesus Christ did when he was here in his physical body, he wants us to continue to do today. We are the body ...

I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...

We live in a world of vast economic injustice, crippling poverty, and wealthy churches. So did “golden-mothed” preacher John Chrysostom. In recent years, believers from all segments of the Christian ...

But saying the church is Christ’s body means, by the Spirit, our visible community genuinely carries Christ’s presence in the ...

The author of this Sunday’s selection from Deuteronomy (we’ll assume he was a man, because women didn’t have the leisure time to learn to read and write) was writing history in the form of a homily he ...

I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...