Teachings & Parables

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (722+ words) The Living Church In Praise of Ordinary Time Please email comments to email protected. The liturgical year might be understood as having two phases, one active—sometimes even frenetic—and the other placid, with an occasional punctuation mark that gets…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (249+ words) Jesus spent thirty hidden years in Nazareth before His public ministry began, revealing a lesson many of us overlook entirely....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (692+ words) In Sunday’s Gospel the Lord firmly sets before us the need for the cross, not as an end in itself, but as the way to glory. Let’s consider the Gospel in three stages. I. The Pattern that is Announced – The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (64+ words) By Rev. Anders Nelson Mabel-Henrytown Tri-Point Parish – Mabel First Lutheran Church, Scheie Lutheran Church and Henrytown Lutheran Church There’s something really beautiful and interesting in the way Jesus teaches his disciples and, through the beauty of the Living Word, us…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (494+ words) by Stephanie Ann Puen Welcome to Theologians' Corner, where each week a different woman theologian from around the world offers a fresh reflection on the Sunday readings. For today's reflection, I would like to raise three invitations for us to…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (448+ words) It’s a tale of ceaseless surprises and twists and turns, after which the burnt emerge from ashes to become the blessed. Divorce, having served notice through beatings unleashed by James, is inevitable. When it arrives, Funke, an only child and…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (49+ words) You have crowned the year with your bounty, and your paths overflow with a rich harvest; The untilled meadows overflow with it, and rejoicing clothes the hills....