I remember many years ago my family of origin had literally no food to eat. We were desperate: no food; no money; no help. Finally,
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UNDERSTANDING the MULTIPLICATION OF LOAVES
Most of us consider today’s gospel story literally: that Jesus multiplied 5 loaves from nothing, and fed 5000 people with them. If Jesus were human
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The Latin derivative for heart is the word cor. From this word, we get the words discourage and encourage. These words are totally opposed, and
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We hear so much today of American exceptionalism and what it means to be an American. Many even say that the U. S. is the
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These days breed bias and division; and patriarchy (rule by the male gender) stands prominently among those who dominate. Jesus speaks clearly and powerfully about this in
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Are your waters stormy, and your boat sinking? Are you in deep mental or physical pain? Does it seem God sleeps while you drown? Today’s
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Most scholars agree the teaching of Jesus centers on the Kingdom of God. He refers to it 163 times in the Christian testament. But what
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We can distinguish Mark’s gospel by its down-to-earth character. Today’s gospel from Mark proves the point. Mental debility ranks as an unsavory subject few people
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Do you believe Pentecost is our greatest feast, or have you ever even considered it? Rather, Pentecost serves as the climax of Christianity’s most fundamental and
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Today, in this era of “fake news”,spin and outright lying, we need the truth desperately. But what is truth? Jesus responds in today’s gospel with
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