Month: July 2025

Today is one of these Sundays where the topic of our Gospel is quite obvious, isn’t it? We have three moments in our text: The teaching of the “Our Father”, the story known as “The parable of the friend at midnight”, and a list of sayings. All of these passages are about prayer, which is…

I don’t know if you have noticed but I think there is a little bit of an assumption in church that when there are stories with women in the Bible, it means they are stories for women. For this reason I guess, whenever we offer a study about “Women in the Bible”, hardly any man…

I was on the look out this week for good “Good Samaritans” stories in the news and I found plenty: An immigrant rescues a family from a fire by climbing on the window of their apartment, a young man saves a baby from a flood, a mom finds a kitten under a truck on a…

As our liturgical time after the Pentecost unfolds, we are going to spend more time in Luke’s Gospel. We started last Sunday and we continue today. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the way the Gospels were written, most scholars agree that Mark’s Gospel is the first to have been written, and then…