From the most abstract theological arguments to comparisons to sunbeams and shamrocks, the Trinity has always been hard to explain.

A lot of folks have trouble with authority. Some of that is leftover stuff from childhood, when parents, teachers, or other authority figures may have misused the power vested in them and made the idea of an overseer repellent ever after. But no matter how we feel about it, authority is here to stay.

Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”

Nothing succeeds better in shattering any fragile peace than an “either/or” attitude.

As our celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection continues in this Easter season, we turn to God with faith in God’s mercy.

I saw no temple in the city. It’s not that the writer of the Book of Revelation was looking for the real Jerusalem Temple.

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.  —Italian proverb