Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 / Rv 21:10-14, 22-23 / Jn 14:23-29
There's an old Jules Feiffer cartoon strip about a man talking on the phone. We hear only his side of the conversation which goes like this: "Hello, mother, I've had…

Acts 9:1-20 / Jn 6:52-59
In virtually all cultures, there are few ideas more repugnant and few taboos more inviolable than those regarding cannibalism. Most people would rather die than eat the flesh of a fellow human being. Hence, we…

1 Pt 5:5b-15 / Mk 16:15-20
Buried somewhere in our high school memories is a novel that was on everyone's reading list, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. It's the story of a pious young puritan clergyman who becomes secretly involved…

Acts 6:8-15 / Jn 6:22-29
One of the nastiest mistakes we can make is to forget about some especially tasty leftovers in a dark corner of our refrigerator. Eventually they reappear, and it's not a pretty sight! What warmed our…