by Nelson Rivera

Let us begin with some questions. When we gather for worship, what do we think we are doing? In other words, what is our gathering for? Just thinking of the ways that diverse …

by Patty Christiena Willis

I remember sitting with a vegetarian friend at a Japanese restaurant.  When she ate a bit of shrimp that had been fried in batter, she spit it out, right there, and said, …

by Albrecht Classen

Hardly any other Renaissance painting has been ingrained in people’s mind as deeply as Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” (1495-1498), housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in …

by John W. Herbst

Feasting is fun. Human beings eagerly anticipate elaborate planned meals as an essential element of celebration. We design these events to help ourselves enjoy ourselves, spending some time pushing aside cares of …

In the Stillness

by Patty Christiena Willis

They say you speak in the stillness,

I have known that.

There are days when 

all I hear is my heartbeat

and the rush of body fluids

the sound through stethoscopes like

the sound …

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. 238pp. $16.81

by Neal D. Presa

Famed Episcopalian priest and professor, Barbara Brown Taylor, employs her wise pen to …

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari. New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2018. 372pp. $16.53

by Neal D. Presa

Historian Yuval Noah Harari of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has written a trilogy of …

by Darla Turlington

Bible Quotes on Feast

Hospitality and Celebrations

But he [Lot] urged them [strangers/angels] strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and …