Hope is one of those dynamic words that deserves the title of catalyst when it comes to change. It is a spiritual attribute that God’s people should use regularly as it is filled with life, excitement ...

“The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.” Psalms 18:2 How to reach a full level ...

I'm used to doing things with a goal in mind. I like understanding how what I'm doing at this moment in my life fits into something bigger, how it reaches toward a dream I have for the future or how ...

Psalm 108, which we just heard, is part of the sequence of psalms in the morning prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours that has been the theme of our weekly catechesis. At first glance, it has one ...

Guest columnist Robert Nosanchuk is senior rabbi of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, a community that nurtures love, justice, hope, joy, connection and growth. For more ...

Have you ever been through a crisis? Maybe you’re going through one now. There are three important lessons we can learn in John 11 about how to hang on in times of crisis. Jesus gets word that his ...

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Love is our natural state. It’s the awareness that allows the baby to finally feel the arms around it. When we love God, we ...

“Glory for God, that alone! The rest does not matter.” These are the words of Mother Trinidad de la Santa Madre Iglesia, who died on this day one year ago in Rome. She is remembered as the foundress ...