The early Christians saw the “weeks of years” as fulfilled in Jesus. The prophetic timetable became part of the early ...

Handel’s Messiah is one of the most popular classical compositions played at the holidays. Filled with biblical passages and ...

Christmas offers a yearly reminder of the role of rules in life, and the Golden Rule need not be removed from its religious ...

John the Baptist, the voice in the wilderness, the voice of Advent, the disturber of the self-righteous, is being muffled.

REFLECTIONS TODAYThe Jews believed that the coming of God’s Kingdom would be preceded by the return of the prophet Elijah from heaven where he was carried ...

On the First Sunday of Advent, we stood at the threshold of the “I don’t know.” Crossing that could have helped us face what ...

Weekly sermon summaries for local and area churches.

Evoking John the Baptist, who was imprisoned for his preaching, Pope Leo XIV opened his Sunday Angelus reflection with this ...

Many times in the Bible, God showed up on ordinary days. Moses was a shepherd when he saw the burning bush. David was also ...

Among the many distinctions between Christianity and every other religion, one that stands out in particular is that God is not a far-off, uninvolved, detached deity. From the first book of the Bible ...

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from ...

John questions Jesus from prison in today's Gospel -- for his disciples' sake and for ours. He knows that Jesus is doing ...