Artist: Helen Yousaf “Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.” C.S. Lewis I awoke from a pretty deep sleep on April 20th with a phrase moving across my mind like a...
“John 19:14” by Full of Eyes Already having used clandestine means to enter the city of Jerusalem at the beginning of what we call Holy Week – a simple “the Master needs it” code phrase securing the donkey on which he would make his entrance to Jerusalem,...
Here I am, 62 years old and a good old fashioned “no brainer” finally dropped. I felt a lot like an old mentor of mine who told me once, tongue in cheek, when he was, well, right about my age now, “I really thought I’d be a better Christian by this time.” I was on my...
I sit here penning this national reflection on the first day of Lent ‘26. The Forty Days, or Quadragesima, have marked one of the most intense periods of fasting, study and reflection in the Church since the fourth century. Originally this time was set aside for...
Artwork: Ignited, by Leslie Young Marks “Now, in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers.” (Acts 13:1a) And what a bunch they were. Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. (Acts...
