Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 14:1,7–14
I never expected to learn "How to Host a Proper Dinner Party" from the Bible. (Although I did find "How to Best Remove the Fat of a Bull Sin-Offering" in Leviticus 4:8!)
Move over, Emily Post—Jesus is the next big etiquette influencer. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 8:1–11
Why is it important to read the Bible every day?
What if I asked you to give someone utterly unfamiliar with the Bible, faith, or God a one-word answer to the above question? What would your one-word answer be? [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 4:1–13
For most of my life, Lent meant praying the stations of the cross, giving something up, and throwing loose change in a box for the poor. All good things, yet nothing more than outward gestures that produced little interior transformation. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 7:31–37
As the mother of five small children, meltdowns are expected. What isn't expected, however, is that I, the mother, the adult, should be having them, but that's what happened yesterday. My family was doing fine as I embarrassingly and humiliatingly melted down over what should have been a joy-filled day. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 28:16–20
Have you, like me, ever wondered if you missed your true vocation as a cloistered Carmelite nun?
I have moments when I don’t want to leave church at the end of Mass. My family joins the rest of the congregation, [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 9:36–10:8
As a teenager, I had a job waiting tables in a local restaurant. One day, I had a large party, and as I was bringing out a tray full of drinks, I lost my balance, and the entire tray of drinks ended up spilling on one of the men seated at the table. [...]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 4:4–42
I recently started leading a middle school discipleship group at my parish. Being with 11- to 13-year-olds (two of whom are my children) has reminded me just how much we all have a need to belong. Arguably no one deals with insecurity and the need to belong more than middle schoolers. [...]
I’ve been off social media for the last twelve weeks. Give or take. I don’t know exactly how long it’s been because I’m no longer paying that much attention to it. But in those early weeks, I could have told you down to the day. This was not because I was coming off a social media addiction; [...]
Friendship is not extra. It is not optional for the Christian. It is particularly crucial to the Christian woman. Perhaps you’re already nodding. Perhaps you’re even thinking of the faces of the women who form your Walking with Purpose community, remembering how those women acted as “an elixir of life” to you (Sirach 6:16). [...]
How are your friendships? In the Bible study Reclaiming Friendship: God’s Plan for Deep Connection, Mallory Smyth encourages us to take inventory of the type of friend we are by asking, “Are you trustworthy? Do you keep your confidential secrets to yourself? Do you give as much as you take from your friendships? [...]
