By Gary Topping– Passover occurs this week. The story of the Exodus is one that has captured the imagination of millions of people over many centuries. It has everything about…
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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I think religious art often touches our souls because it reveals truths about both the divine and the human. The Pieta at St. Peter’s Basilica, for…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– A couple of times each year in the 1960s and early 1970s, usually for back-to-school, Christmas, or Easter shopping, my small town family would journey to…
By Deacon Scott Dodge– Too often we are sentimental about our faith, about what it really means at its deepest level. Our sentimentality spells dire consequences for how we use…
By Gary Topping– In his typically thoughtful posting this week, Mike O’Brien asks us to consider what to do when bad people produce good things. His primary reference is to…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Many of my favorite life moments played out with Michael Jackson songs in the background. Allegations of his predatory behavior towards children have been around for…
By George E. Pence III– Something we own, is it truly ours? Something we give away, was it ever truly ours to give? I am on the sunny side of…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Thirty years ago this month, a Utah court battle took center stage in the ongoing fight for religious liberty. The case was memorable for many reasons,…
By George E. Pence III– As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in tribulation is the test of the just. Sometimes during the readings…
By Gary Topping– I’d wager that the book of Tobit is one of the least-read books in the Bible. Protestants don’t even have it in theirs, and as little as…