A Life of Service
When reading Scripture, I always have to remind myself that we have the entire picture of what is happening but that the Apostles, and those around them, did no...
Author: Fr. Peter
Ben Franklin’s World Podcast, Well Worth a Listen
My office is the front seat of my vehicle as I travel from facility to facility visiting hospice patients. As such, I spend an enormous amount of time on the r...
The world is coming to an end, Again
This morning, while checking my feed on Facebook, I came across another article claiming the world is coming to an end. In the article, Christian group predicts...
I am the Bread of Life
I love to bake bread; I’m not very good at it, but I do like to make it. There is something about getting your hands in the dough and working it, and getting i...
The Ladder of Virtue
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these, he ha...
We’ve Always Done it This Way
I can just see the exasperation on the face of Jesus as he is having this dialogue with his friends. He wants to go out fishing with them, but they have been o...
Faith communities urge U.S. to resettle more Syrian refugees
Church World Service (CWS), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and other faith communities are urging the U.S. government to resettle 100,000 Syrian refu...
Civil War Reconstruction @ 150
A new blog has been launched that will chronicle the effects of the period after the Civil War known as Reconstruction. The authors purpose for writing this bl...
The Pope is Coming
Any discussion of the United States being founded as a Christian nation needs to include the definition of what a Christian actually was. How we, Christians in...
Eldership in the Church
To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds o...