Pastor Fudd preached, yesterday, on loving and forgiving. This morning, he got up and poured fresh new cement for a sidewalk. Little Jimmy Mischief came along and planted his footprints in the pristine surface and pastor Fudd was aroused to… Continue reading

Life takes unexpected twists and turns. Sometimes, you feel completely out of control. That is because you are not in complete control. You only control part of your reality at any given time: your responses. I had barely arrived in… Continue reading

  Black Madonna of Czestocho Mother Mary, Theotokos Saint Mary’s memory is honored in many Christian churches today. Mary was flesh and blood and Jesus was her son, flesh, blood, and connected with her people. All of us, called to… Continue reading

Jesus asked the right question, "Do you want to be healed?" The man heard it through his own filters and thought his answer was contingent on his preconceptions of getting in the water. That was not the case. Right question,… Continue reading

On this day, August 13, in 1099 – Raniero is elected as Pope Paschal II, who would become deeply entangled in the Investiture Controversy. This controversy was a prime example, from nearly a thousand years ago, of entanglement of church… Continue reading

The God We Worship “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” – Psalm 24:1 Everything belongs to God. We have known this most of our lives as a theological truth. It… Continue reading