Category: Spirituality

“Love covers a multitude of sins.” I Peter 4:8 I had been riding back home to the Mississippi Coast next to my father in the station wagon all

In Dr. Naugle’s class, we started the story with creation — and that simple shift changed everything for me. God's original design was beautiful, and though the fall

Lectio divina, sometimes called Thomistic prayer after St. Thomas Aquinus, is prayer that is focused on a more intellectual, or at least more thought-filled, approach to prayer. If

I was recently asked if it is futile to pray for things that will not change like oppression, hunger, poverty, for all the lost to become Christians, and

I’ve written before about contemplative prayer and its benefits. Some people have real difficulty clearing their minds and quieting their inner voices enough for prayers like the Jesus

You have probably heard that the Bible says not to use curse words. The actual text quoted to make this point is actually quite different in meaning. It

Last week, I had a conversation with my daughter, and it went something like this: “Have you seen all those hackberry trees growing along that fence line over

It’s Eastertide, and something I learned from NT Wright is that if we give up something for the forty days of Lent, it’s a good idea to add

Love is patient, love is kind, but I am loving and kind only part of the time. Love does not envy, it does not boast, but I saw

“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” This are the words spoken over those of us who receive the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday,