A majority of U.S. Catholics may have voted for Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the recent election, but U.S. bishops expressed some concern about how … Read more

“I can only imagine ...” is the best selling Christian single song of all time. Read more

In a long-awaited act of transparency, fulfilling a commitment from Pope Francis, the Vatican published a report based on a two-year internal … Read more

In 1741, George Frederic Handel composed the “Messiah.” It’s one of the best known and treasured musical creations, and for 25 years the White… Read more

Those who say if Bahá’u’lláh is indeed a divine messenger, why have the masses of humanity rejected him, why have the religious leaders ignore… Read more

How many important lessons can a person learn at one time? Not many, probably. But on this occasion Jesus seized the moment and immediately we… Read more

Most people conform to what others expect of them, and at the same time try to control others to conform to their expectations. Read more

In a sense, in chapter 16 Matthew is introducing us to Jesus Christ. He has been telling us about Jesus all along, of course, but here he gets… Read more

It’s that scary time of year again, and this year is scarier than usual. The TV is running all the old-time “fright” movies, and Walmart is ch… Read more

Jesus said, “ … I will build my church (ekklesia – “called out assembly”) and the gates of hell (Hades) shall not prevail against it” (Matthew… Read more

During the Christmas season, naturally I think about Christ, even though I’m a Baha’i- after all, Baha’is love and revere Jesus Christ: Read more

What did Jesus mean when he said to Peter, “And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church”? There are three main … Read more

During the Christmas season, naturally I think about Christ, even though I’m a Baha’i- after all, Baha’is love and revere Jesus Christ: Read more

VATICAN CITY — Being indifferent to or hating others is to deny the existence of God’s presence in one’s neighbor, Pope Francis said. Read more

No, not celebrations of birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions, not fun times of gathering together around friends and snacky treats, … Read more

As a kid growing up in a Christian culture, the fear of hell and the wrath of God scared the bejesus out of me! Deathly afraid of Satan, the i… Read more

Our Pilgrim forefathers came to America for religious liberty. It’s a fact that should be indelibly etched into our very souls. Now however, i… Read more

“Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said… Read more

“And the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night…” Exodus 14:21. Read more

The higher you go, the harder it is to breath. We understand this from the National Geographic features of Mount Everest climbers, some with o… Read more

Good eyesight is a marvelous blessing, and in order to see better, Americans spend billions of dollars a year on eye care. About seven percent… Read more

Tucked into the Sermon on the Mount” — that spiritually radical digest of Christian teachings — is a brief, surprising, and often over looked … Read more

In Ephesians 2:8-9 Read more

It has always been, and it will always be true that people learn more from models than in any other way. Read more

We can understand the failure of the Pharisees and Sadducees to perceive the signs of the times. They were unable to understand because they w… Read more

The morning temperatures are dropping, the leaves on our maple tree are turning red, our vegetable garden is pretty well spent, and the hummin… Read more

As part of its ongoing collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), Latter-day Saint Charities is helping fund the WFP’s global distribu… Read more

Every chapter of the Bible is important, but you know what they say about all persons being born equal: “Some are equaler than others.” So als… Read more

Bahá’ís are peacemakers in a warring world. This passage may indeed be a prophecy: Read more

There’s a paradox of tears right now. Some are crying because of a loss or some sadness, while others are shedding tears of joy over unexpecte… Read more

Imagine this – one of the world’s largest countries has a major outbreak of a dread disease, so its government orders a solution: every region… Read more

Being neutral is safe. Switzerland was declared a neutral state in 1920 by the League of Nations. For reasons unknown, Hitler did not invade h… Read more

They were undetected, but the entire ten Boom family was arrested. Just before a truck hauled them away, the German officer in charge of the r… Read more

In Matthew 15 the story of Jesus’ response to the Canaanite woman is followed by an account of His feeding of four thousand people near the Se… Read more

It is not only Jesus’ silence that seems to be a problem in Matthew 15. It is also the words He used when He spoke to the woman. His first wor… Read more

Throughout the ages, humanity has been concerned with the nature of the relationship between actions in this world and their consequences here… Read more

Last week I spoke about what happened in Holland in 1940. The Dutch people remained under the cruel Nazi regime for five years. But in the mid… Read more

There’s a coin shortage. That’s strange. I can’t ever recall of that happening before, at least over my time on earth. The anonymous “they” sa… Read more

In our faith tradition, the Catholic Funeral Rite is an essential part of the grieving process. It brings us together as a community so we can… Read more

VATICAN CITY — Christ’s cross is a powerful symbol of God’s love for humanity and not just a decoration or trinket, Pope Francis said. Read more

Nothing troubled the religious leaders of Israel more than becoming ceremonially unclean, and nothing made them more unclean than contact with… Read more

Felis Catus...the common, domestic, house cat. They descended from wild cats that inhabited the Fertile Crescent some 7,500 years ago, and tha… Read more

We said in part: The black man must ever be grateful to the white man, for he has manifested great courage and self-sacrifice in behalf of the… Read more

Keeping secrets has always been a trial for those knowing. It hasn’t been a picnic either for those out of the knowing. Secrets generate tensi… Read more

In the following passages, Shoghi Effendi Rabbání (the Zeal of the Lord), the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, delineates the basic pattern of Ba… Read more

The last of the three conversations in Matthew 15.1-20 is between Jesus and His disciples, and it seems to have been private. The disciples co… Read more

In the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, prejudice is regarded as a perilous disease; it is utterly alien to the spirit of the new teachings, to the… Read more

The point of Matthew 15 as a whole is that the kingdom of God is for Gentiles as well as Jews because Christianity rests on an entirely differ… Read more

COVID-19 has affected the way Americans live, work and learn. This fall, thousands of children will return to schools in online learning envir… Read more