Scripture for Life - Today's readings call us to enlarge our hearts and souls to recognize the prejudices, judgments and certainty in our way of doing things.
Scripture for Life: Jesus' idea of family was very different from that of his contemporaries — and much larger. So, too, his sense of identity. He knew he was part of the whole God created.
Scripture for Life: God does not parachute in to solve everything. It's not that easy. God shares this hope with us — that we will follow the Spirit's inspiration to resolve the world's hopelessness.
Scripture for Life: Today's Gospel question asks how we might practice the creative compassion that incarnates the kingdom of God in a suffering world.
Scripture for Life: What kind of renewal does the Spirit bring to the face of Earth? Our official church teaching offers an answer that will not be comfortable for all of us.
Scripture for Life: Today's feast invites us to admit our own frustrated desires for certainty in the midst of doubts or weakness of faith. The disciples didn't have all the answers. What they did have was a mandate.
Scripture for Life: The love Christ talks about is not primarily an emotion, but an embrace of our shared identity as creatures, human beings invited into the same life, the same depth, the same identity in God.
