I have been thinking about forgiveness a lot lately. Jesus taught his disciples that they should not limit the number of times that they forgave people but should forgive people ad infinitum, placing no limit on the number times that they forgave people. He also taught his disciples that if
Before COVID, we were already facing an epidemic of loneliness in America. As I wrote in 2018, social isolation has become the functional status of American life, and loneliness has made a profound and tragic impression on our mental health, physical well-being, and community life. And that was before we
All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. God not only dwells in heaven, but he also dwells in us. In our innermost self, God makes his home. The Scripture reading for this Sunday is Luke
In his description of love in his first letter to the Corinthians the apostle Paul lists several attitudes and behaviors which are not characteristic of the kind of love that Jesus teaches his disciples to show one another. They include rudeness. When we are rude, we behave in a way
All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. What came as a surprise to the early Christians who were Jews, was that Good News was not just for Jews but also for non-Jews. The Holy Spirit
All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. Whatever happens in the year ahead, good or bad, let us steadfastly trust in God’s goodwill toward us. The Scripture reading for this Sunday is John 1: 10-18
Or should it be forgiveness versus retaliation? The definitions of the terms used in this article are taken from the Cambridge English Dictionary. Anger is “a strong feeling that makes you want to hurt someone or be unpleasant because of something unfair or unkind that has happened; to make someone
Why don’t we live more like Jesus taught and showed us how we should live? Among the reasons is the power that sin exercises in our lives. We may have been born again but we are not free of our old self, from our inclination to rebel against God.