Outside, gray clouds scudded damply across the spring sky. Inside, a continuous procession passed by the woman’s bedside. “People came to pray near her, to bring her a last token of affection,” her husband recalled years later. More »

The carpenter of Nazareth knew first-hand the challenges of the daily grind and of toiling to support a family. St. Joseph experienced the tiring monotony of the work week. More »

Lapa Benincasa’s shrieks bounced off the walls of her kitchen and into the narrow streets of Siena. Her daughter Catherine, the twenty-fourth of her twenty-five children, had just shaved her head. The fifteen-year-old girl was adamant that she not be married off, and to show the seriousness of her intention, she had chopped off her hair. More »

Dad had essentially been unemployed for about ten years. He had jobs here and there in our hometown of Stafford, England, but they never worked out. More »

It is a common misconception that the portrayal of God is very different in the New Testament from the picture we see in the Old Testament. More »

I love to read the different conversion stories in the Bible. They always move me to evangelize. Some of my favorites include the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman in John 4, the story of Peter meeting Cornelius in Acts 10, and the story of the Philippian jailer in Acts 16. More »

Everything is new, as we begin the Easter season! For seven weeks, we hear about the new life that the apostles received at Pentecost. We learn about the new gathering of believers, which came to be called the church. And we discover how these first believers came to live out the new commandment to love one another. More »

Jesus, so many in the world today hunger for the bread of love. All they know are false loves that neither satisfy nor fill the heart. All they know are attachments to objects or philosophies or themselves — not to you, the source of all love and beauty. Lord, let the bread of your love come into their hearts and satisfy their deepest hunger. More »