That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud ...

This fixation on, and animosity toward, darkness is partly why I cling to luminescent imagery whenever it appears in ...

A passage from the Book of Revelation, a prophetic book of the Bible filled with rich symbolism, illustrates the difficulty ...

It hit me: He is paying the disciples a beautiful compliment, recognizing the good he has seen in them through their shared ...

When they saw this, they began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner”... And Jesus said to him, ...

This is the great sin of the servant who stores his coin in the handkerchief: Paralysis. Struck with the King’s gifts and the ...