The Bible’s Supporting Players: Rahab
Kathy Coffey
February 17, 2024
Only four Old Testament women are named in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus (1:1-17), so these must be special great-great-grandmothers.
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Love and Triumph
Bruce Epperly
February 17, 2024
As Bonaventure writes, God is “totally submerged in the waters from the sole of the foot to the top of the head…. [God] appeared to you as your beloved cut through with wound upon wound in order to heal you.”
Blessed Lady Jacoba and Almond Treats
Theresa Doyle-Nelson
February 17, 2024
Lady Jacoba (now Blessed Jacoba) was deeply struck by St. Francis of Assisi and consequently became a Third Order Franciscan. She kindly offered one special luxury to the humble man of Assisi.
Heaven and Earth
Bruce Epperly
February 16, 2024
The first Franciscans believed that God was in the world, actively shaping human experience, and inspiring birds’ songs and wolves’ howls.
We Are Not Alone
Stephen Copeland
February 16, 2024
Core to the Christian Gospel for Franciscans is the realization that the God of the universe decided to enter into our world, first through creation itself (Gn 1), then through the Incarnation (Jn 1), not because of sin or the need to “pay a price,” but simply because that’s what love does.
An Alternative Vision of God
Bruce Epperly
February 15, 2024
If Christian faith is to be meaningful to twenty-first-century individuals and play a positive role in healing the earth and its peoples, Christians must choose the way of loving relatedness.
My Inadvertent Offenses …
Theresa Doyle-Nelson
February 15, 2024
Punish me not … for my inadvertent offenses.” —Tb (3:3b) What a great plea from the Old Testament figure, Tobit!
I Love Myself
Susan Hines-Brigger
February 14, 2024
hen we think of love, often the focus is on the love that is projected outward–to a partner, a child, a friend. But when do we stop and focus on ourselves?
The Divine Dance of Lent
Mary Ann Steutermann
February 14, 2024
Prayer as a spiritual practice never goes out of style. Prayer is a powerful way of participating in divine community.
Sending Compassion
Kathy Coffey
February 13, 2024
Bryan Stevenson, an African-American, Harvard-trained attorney, writes: “The people who haven’t earned it, who haven’t even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion… “