We need to make introductions more fun and revealing. Here is something I have used in the past on friends and family when introducing them to an audience: Some people have an interesting slant on life and on literature. When { ] first heard his/her teacher say...
“The Scriptures are filled with stories of people close to God, even as their own lives are often fraught with mess, confusion, frustration, betrayal, infidelity and sin. There are no simple human beings, immune to the psychological, sexual and relational complexities...
A story told by the late Anthony de Mello SJ: There was once a devout woman who was filled with love for God. Each morning as she would go to church, children would call out to her and beggars would plead with her, but so immersed was she in her… To access this...
Some of the most important preaching we will ever do is at funerals. I will be sharing a lot more in the future of what is in my overflowing files, but let this start the flow, which can be used not just for funerals. It comes from Bob Dixon’s essay… To access...
St. Leo the Great (d.461) wrote in one of his sermons (Sermon 71:2) that Jesus rose as early as possible on the third day, not only to fulfil the Scriptures, but also so that “the disturbed minds of the disciples might not be racked by prolonged grief.” We need...
In the mid 1850s the California gold rush was slowing down. Many miners moved their operation to Nevada to search for silver. The two Grosh brothers, sons of a Pennsylvania clergyman and trained as mineralogists and trained by the California gold rush, staked a claim...
