Minute Meditations

The prophets often use the metaphor of interrupted marriage to describe the relationship between God and Israel—a metaphor entwined with cultural values distant from our own.

In today’s Gospel Jesus sends a report to John the Baptist, who is in prison.

The bitter history of slavery in the United States has been called by one historian “the original sin” of our country.

The incarnation is at the heart of our faith, and what we celebrate in this season.

In our nativity scenes, the image of the Blessed Mother draws our line of sight from her eyes to the Infant Jesus.

One of the religious cable channels regularly runs old, and usually forgettable, movies about biblical heroes.