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.
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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… “
To See and to Soothe
Daniel Imwalle
February 12, 2024
When you think of the poor, is it someone unknown to you in a faraway land? That may be true, but that kind of thinking also puts a buffer between ourselves and those in need.
The Mystical Heart
Richard Rohr, OFM
February 11, 2024
True mysticism allows us to fish from a different side of the boat, and with a different expectation of what success might mean.
Directionless but Divine
Stephen Copeland
February 11, 2024
Both St. Francis and St. Bonaventure are said to have visited La Verna, a mountain donated to the Franciscans by Count Orlando of Chiusi, at times in their lives where they were wrestling with their divine calling.