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Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me ... and you will find [...]

Rabbi Tarfon said, 'The day is short. The work is long. We are not enjoined to complete the task. Nor are we free to desist from it altogether.' And Rabbi [...]

'That's when I want you--you knower of my emptiness, you unspeaking partner to my sorrow. That's when I need you, God, like food,' wrote Rainer Maria Rilke in his Book [...]

Despite Jesus' greeting to the disciples, the weeks following his resurrection are anything but peaceful for the struggling community. Instead, the disciples are confronted with the task of forming community [...]

'How do you want to spend your life? We all know you can ruin it. But what is more important to recognize is that you can sleep through it.' The [...]

The article talks about avoid judging a person on their past acts. Topics include Charles Rodgers, serving thirty-five year in prison for armed robbery; single story makes a single experience, characteristics, or action in person's life to become the only truth creating stereotypes; society still judges Rodgers by the single story of a past conviction, which should be improved..

A review of Faith and Feminism: a Holy Alliance, by Helen Lakelly Hunt. reviewed by Michaela Bruzzese With Faith and Feminism, Helen LaKelly Hunt has given the faith and feminist [...]

In his monumental work The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel reminds the faithful, 'There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to [...]

'To drink of thee is to live, to eat of thee is to be born,' sang 17th-century composer Isabella Leonarda of God's living presence in bread and wine. Though the [...]

Almost 800 years ago, Thomas Aquinas confessed that 'Every truth without exception--and whoever may utter it--is from the Holy Spirit.' He couldn't have anticipated the great wisdom of his words [...]

'Though we go forth weeping, we shall come back rejoicing!' Russian philosopher Nicolas Berdyaev, a devout Christian, observed, 'I always knew ... that freedom gives birth to suffering, while the [...]

Martin Buber observed that 'when I Believe ... the totality of my nature enters into the process ... because the relationship of faith is a relationship of my entire being.' [...]

The Covenant to Overcome Poverty needs you! Call to Renewal is seeking 1 million people to sign our Covenant to Overcome Poverty in order to put poverty on the national [...]

As we end the liturgical year, we prepare for the gospel's final portrayal of Jesus--as Christ the king--and for a new year with Luke as our guide. Marks Jesus, as [...]

1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14; Psalm 111; Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:51-58 TO BE THE body of Christ in the world means that, like Jesus, we accompany those who suffer. To do [...]

The Easter season concludes with the celebration of one of Christianity's most beautiful mysteries, the Trinity. The weeks that follow will continue to reveal the mystery, of the God who [...]

Acts 10:44-48; Psalm 98; 1 John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17 With the celebration of Pentecost only a week away, the scriptures testify to discipleship's most important requirement: inclusiveness. In Acts, Peter [...]

Acts 10:34-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; John 20:1-18 Today's alternate reading from the gospel of Mark, 16:1-8, is believed to be Mark's original and only account of the [...]

Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; John 2:13-22 Genesis makes clear that God's decree is absolute when it comes to idolatry. The first commandment, to love God and God [...]

Isaiah 40:21-31; Psalm 147:1-11, 20; 1 Corinthians 9:16-23; Mark 1:29-39 As Jesus' public ministry continues, Mark describes several miracles as by-products of Jesus' actual mission: to proclaim 'the message ... [...]

BIBLE STUDY Christmas Presence A few years ago, as I and the rest of the audience waited patiently for a passion play to begin, a homeless man burst into the [...]

'In deep nights I dig for you like treasure. For all I have seen that clutters the surface of my world is poor and paltry substitute for the beauty of [...]

'When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work.' Fifth-century Indian poet Kabir helps introduce the correct [...]

'Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt--blessed illusion!--that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs of sweet honey from my [...]

'Love, to be real, must cost--it must hurt--it must empty us of self.' Mother Teresa of Calcutta knew and lived this love with her whole life. It is no coincidence [...]

Six months after Ash Wednesday, we are gifted with another month of reminders of its most basic and important lessons. Once again we have an opportunity' to recognize our false [...]

Deuteronomy 30:9-14; Psalm 25:1-10; Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37 Although it's a well-known parable, the Good Samaritan still has much to teach us about the authenticity of our faith and how [...]

2 Samuel 11:26-12:10, 13-15; Psalm 32; Galatians 2:15-21; Luke 7:36-8:3 Through two dramatic portrayals of repentant sinners, we are shown the powerful forces of love and forgiveness. In 2 Samuel, [...]

The Eternal Thou The history of the struggles of the oppressed is the history of the call of the Holy Spirit to a divided world, writes Mexican theologian Maria Pilar [...]

Isaiah 65:17-2.5; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26; Luke 24:1-12 Jesus' female followers, who accompanied him in his arrest, imprisonment, and death, are the first to discover the unbelievable news; [...]

Isaiah 55:1-9: Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9 Accepting Cod's offer of covenant this Lent means that we must first free ourselves from the idols we have collected during [...]

'Oh, king of kings, we kneel before you, asking for peace in the rest of the country. Reveal yourself, reveal yourself, Almighty!' The lyrics of 'King of Kings,' by South [...]

Matthew, Luke, and John tell us the story of Jesus in their own words, firmly linking him to the Hebrew Testament through scripture and events. The accounts confirm Jesus' heritage [...]

Jeremiah 11:18-20; Psalm 54; James 3:13-4:3, 7-8; Mark 9:30-37 James' letter is so focused on ethical conduct that it is considered more of an exhortation, whose form and content echoes [...]

Amos 5:6-7, 10-15; Psalm 90:12-17; Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31 Mark showed plainly in the previous reading that by applying the rigid letter of the law, many Pharisees were missing its [...]

Isaiah 35:4-7; Psalm 146; James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17; Mark 7:24-37 'The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down .... The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan [...]

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22; Psalm 124; James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50 WHEN THE DISCIPLES criticize someone for casting out demons in Jesus' name because the man "was not following us" (Mark [...]

Proverbs 31:10-31; Psalm 1; James 3:13-4:3, 7-8; Mark 9:30-37 JESUS' ATTEMPT TO convey kingdom ideals to his followers continues and intensifies--both in his directness about the consequences of his choices [...]

Proverbs 1:20-33; Psalm 19; James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38 AT THE CRUX of the "crisis and confirmation" dilemma posed by Bravo, Jesus hears the disciples' confession of who he is--"You are [...]

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23; Psalm 125; James 2:1-17; Mark 7:24-37 JESUS' HEALING MINISTRY continues with the Syrophoenician woman, a narrative found also in Matthew. his woman is the only person [...]

Jesuit theologian Carlos Bravo labels the next four weeks "crisis and confirmation"--Jesus' insistence on extending God's love and mercy to the poor has put him on a collision course with [...]

The next month is dominated by Jesus' 'bread of life' discourse in the book of John. For four weeks we are invited, again and again, to enter the mystery of [...]

Song of Solomon 2:8-13; Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9; James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 IT IS DIFFICULT to misunderstand the message coming from the New Testament this week--both Jesus and James [...]

1 Kings 8:1-11, 22-30, 41-43; Psalm 84; Ephesians 6:10-20; John 6:56-69 JESUS' INSISTENCE THAT he alone be our source of strength and sustenance was simply too much for some: "Because [...]

2 Samuel 11:26-12:13; Psalm 51:1-12; Ephesians 4:1-16; John 6:24-35 WHILE JESUS UNDERSTANDS that people seek him out because they ate their fill of the loaves, he urges them to seek [...]

2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33; Psalm 130; Ephesians 4:25-5:2; John 6:35, 41-51 ADMONISHING THOSE WHO search for reasons to dismiss him ("Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose [...]

2 Samuel 11:1-15; Psalm 14; Ephesians 3:14-21; John 6:1-21 THIS WEEK WE switch from Mark to John's gospel. As in the other gospels, John's account of the feeding of 5,000, [...]

Jeremiah 23:1-6; Psalm 23; Ephesians 2:11-22; Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 FOLLOWING THREE WEEKS of descriptions of what Jesus is not--Elijah, John the Baptist, welcome in his hometown--this week we see what [...]

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10; Psalm 48; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13 FOLLOWING MULTIPLE HEALINGS and exorcisms in other towns, Jesus returns to his hometown to continue to preach, teach, and [...]

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12-19; Psalm 24; Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:14-29 THE ACCOUNT OF John the Baptist's violent death, which parallels Jesus' death, is more than historical. Its level of detail [...]