In today's first reading, King David learns that honoring God can sometimes mask an attempt to put God in a box.

Impossible tasks, impossible goals, impossible relationships, we've all faced them. Some challenges were met with success; others with utter failure.

Knowledge is power, according to Sir Francis Bacon. If that’s true, then the unknowable future is the place where we find ourselves most vulnerable.

IN THE DAYS before movies on demand, and with a mother who loved musicals, one of my family's favorite events was the telecast of Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.

Participants were asked by the group leader to tell the dominant image of God that they had when they prayed. Keenan reports an impressive variety of ways God leads people at different times in their spiritual lives.

From early in our childhood it was drummed into us how valuable our family name was. We were taught that we were to do nothing that would embarrass the family in any way.

Conception and childbirth are miracles. Period.

Our God is kind and faithful to us. We pray to show faithfulness to God and kindness to our neighbor.

God becomes a human being, and the door opens for human beings to enter into the life of God, which is eternal life.

When I hear people talk about their partnership with God, I keep wondering which one they think ought to be the silent partner. --heard at a pastoral council meeting