Yet we are commanded to harbor the harborless. We can become personally involved, and we can supply financial support. For instance, a small non-denominational church in Seattle started sponsoring refugees
One of the most exasperating bits of exegetical trendiness to afflict First World Catholics for the past thirty years or so has been the endless recirculation, like that of a
Other considerations enter in too. On the one hand, clothes symbolize our external lives—the junk that doesn’t matter in the end. So Jesus tells us that the body is more
Nake is an extinct English verb meaning “to strip clothes off.” To be “naked” is therefore to be in a state of having had your clothes stripped off. Why does
It is worth noting that when the early Christians thought about thirst—and especially the thirst of “the least of these my brethren” ––there was one thing they could readily connect
A religion that practices infant baptism is a religion that doesn’t have very rigorous membership requirements. No Herculean feats necessary to prove your mettle. No ritual bath in bull’s blood.
Norman Borlaug is not the sort of name you think of when it comes to world-historical heroism. A Norwegian Lutheran son of Iowa, he grew up on the prairie, went
Now, as Catholics, we must note that the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats is not the only thing Jesus has to say about salvation. So we mustn’t pretend
Jesus told the Parable of the Sheep and Goats. This does not seem like a news flash until we turn away from observing the obvious and begin to talk about
Back in the day, I wrote this here book here called THE WORK OF MERCY: BEING THE HANDS AND HEART OF CHRIST (available here, signed by me, or in Kindle
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