Jesus taught "as one with authority." His words as well as his actions amazed those around him; in fact, in today's gospel story, it is his words that do the healing.

"I should like you to be free of anxieties," Saint Paul wrote the Corinthians. The scenario he described--whether to remain single given the expectation of Christ's imminent return--may not be one that today's Christians would take as seriously,

Where does God speak to you? The easy answer is "church"; you get points for that. The reality, however, is that God speaks to you most often and most clearly wherever you are.

WHEN the architect Louis Sullivan was a young student in Europe, he visited Rome for three days and spent a good part of two of them in the Sistine Chapel.

One of the earliest pictures my brother took was of me back in 1955, a half century ago, dressed in my Hopalong Cassidy outfit with hat and six shooter and holster. I was kneeling as my brother Tony, an Indian, shoved a lance through my body.

My sisters and brothers, we pray to hear God's voice in our lives.

"A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you." The Book of Deuteronomy does not care much for prophets.

The first duty of love is to listen. ​--Paul Tillich (1886-1965