“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost coin.’ In the […]

Brennan Manning said, “The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.” […]

Let’s talk about Job.  Many theologians today argue that the book of Job was the first book ever written in the Bible.  I find this incredibly interesting due to the intense focus on pain and suffering in Job’s life.  Basically, this book tells the story of a man who is blameless and upright in God’s […]

Mechthild of Magdeeurg, a thirteenth-century mystic prayed, “I cannot dance, Lord, unless you lead me.  If you want me to leap with abandon, you must intone the song.  Then I shall leap into love, from love into knowledge from knowledge to enjoyment, and from enjoyment beyond all human sensations.  There I want to remain, yet […]