What if our starting point in thinking about what it means to be a person in communion with God, oneself and the world was not reduced to institutional belonging, but instead began with humans' inherent capacity for God?
Scripture for Life: When Jesus talked about the king who prepared the wedding feast, he was depicting how God longs to share divine joy with humanity. But the king in Jesus’ story quickly became a tragic character.
Scripture for Life: Jesus was warning his critics that time was short for them to come around to collaborate with what God was offering through him. Pope Francis is giving the world a similarly urgent message today.
Scripture for Life: Today's Gospel might be the most un-American of all Jesus' parables. This story of equal pay for vastly unequal work just doesn't sit right. How to evaluate the economic justice of this tale?
Scripture for Life: It takes faith to put our whole heart into praying, "Lord, let us see your kindness." It takes audacious trust to let go of our expectations and dare to accept the salvation God offers.
Young Voices: God calls us all to live in the fullness of God's reign, especially those who are laboring within a system that dehumanizes them, ignores them, takes advantage of them, even kills them.
From Where I Stand: We have lost a taste for solid gold leadership and accepted the gold-plated lookalike. We have bought into the emptiness of soul that takes a nation into the clutches of political subservience.
