This Sunday's gospel lectionary reading for Advent 2 in Year C is Luke 3.1–6, the location and opening of John the Baptist's ...

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Even now, the soul of St. Thomas retains its ordering to this skull and this skull is ordered to his soul... and it will rise ...

The Church in her wisdom has carved out periods of time within the liturgical calendar to be present to the stillness through ...

The word inclusion has become a loaded term in our world today. Too often it gets tangled up in debates and controversies that divide rather than unite. But at its ...

Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book “Walden” marked the first recorded use of “brain rot,” which has taken on greater meaning in ...

More than five years after an arsonist set fire to three historically Black churches in St. Landry Parish, one of those ...

As our lives unfold from day to day and year to year, Advent annually recapitulates the whole story of our redemption, in ...

Names in the Bible have significance, often providing crucial information about the character or actions of people in a given ...

Since last March when the Steelers signed Russell Wilson, up until his recent success, the word in the ’Burgh and nationally was that Wilson is washed up like Tom Hanks in “Cast Away.” But unlike ...

A young friend in pastoral ministry asks for suggestions when there is “too much to do.” D. A. Carson and John Woodbridge respond with eight pieces of advice.