As a boy, Robert Louis Stevenson was intrigued by the work of the old lamplighter who went about with a ladder and a torch, setting the street lights ablaze for the night. One evening in Edinburgh, ...

I have a friend who served as a missionary in the mountainous areas of Mexico for many years. We were talking one day, and I asked how he was able to walk the narrow, jagged cliffs into the villages, ...

It’s easy to forget how strange the story of Jesus’s resurrection is, or how it might sound to someone hearing it for the first time. The broad strokes — God became human, taught and healed, was ...

An Advent reading for December 13. Scripture uses the motif of darkness and light to describe the Promised One—and Jesus identified himself as this prophesied light. In him, we experience salvation ...

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus cautions his disciples to “take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them … (Matthew 6:1). We’ll hear that teaching on Feb. 22, Ash ...

2020 has drawn us closer to our human frailty. May it also draw us to the Incarnation. Christmas promises to be more than memorable this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Worshipers will find ...