By our new Priest Associate, Fr. Terry Highland.
Thomas gets panned a the great "doubter" but I think his doubt was good and appropriate. What was being claimed was truly stunning and unprecedented, so one should require some…
The women who went to the tomb to treat Jesus' body expected things to just continue as it always had. But God broke in!
In defending Mary's anointing him with expensive ointment, Jesus reminds us that there is a time and place for extravagant, foolish, ridiculous and wasteful expressions of love.
This most famous of Jesus' parables is not really about the son. It is about the insane, extravagant and incomprehensible love of the father.
Using two concrete examples, Jesus challenged the popular notions that "everything happens for a reason" or "God is punishing me." Tragedies befall us, but the question is not "why" but…
Jesus said that He would gather us as a hen gathers her brood, but we would not. Does pride or fear get in your way? Will you be gathered to…
Jesus' temptations in the wilderness are not an object lesson on how we should resist temptations. These are not even temptations we face! Instead, they reveal Jesus' character and place…
The Transfiguration shows Jesus as the lynchpin of God's redeeming work through history.
The most challenging part of the Christian faith is not believing in God or in the resurrection, but actually learning to love in the way that Jesus told us to.…