Jesus took two basics of life, Bread and Wine, and promised that whenever they gathered to share them with a prayer, he would be with them. ..

What was this intriguing "thorn." Was it an ugly appearance, a recurrent sickness, failing eyesight, a tendency to intemperately blunt speech?...

We need to see Paul's boasting in context. He was trying to answer wounding criticisms made about him in Corinth...

Paul's words had a sobering effect on his readers and brought at least some of them back to their first loyalty...

Ideally, we should practice generosity because it's right, rather than merely in order to be loved or praised, or remembered by posterity....

The normal human tendency is to limit our goodwill to those who show us warmth and affection...

It is the hardest challenge to remain good in the face of evil, to remain loving in the face of hostility, to be peacemakers in a hostile world...

The Holy Trinity, the inner self-communication of God, is a profound mystery: how God can be one divinity, shared between three persons....

Jesus wants our YES to mean YES and our NO to mean NO. We are to be reliable and to live with integrity...

We are not literally to gouge out an eye or to hack off a hand, lest they lead us into temptation... But sin is still serious...