March is Women’s History Month. Along with our three female saints observances, preaching and teaching might include quotes from great women (biblical or local) where appropriate.

Don’t eat the fruit of a beautiful tree? Go out into the desert without provisions? Are you kidding me? Lent is here!

No idea stands alone. If anything explains the persistence of evil, this is it. Ideas are organic: They link one to another, influence each other, exalt or sometimes infect the whole with their meaning. If peace lives in our hearts, everyone we meet experiences our lack of inner conflict.

Next Jesus was taken into the wild by the Spirit for the Test. The Devil was ready to give it. Jesus prepared for the Test by fasting forty days and forty nights.

Flat on my back for three weeks, fighting an infection that ravaged my body and attacked both legs, leading to surgery and talk of possible amputation of one or both, I awoke intact but with a grueling regimen of physical therapy three times a day.

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.