Father Joshua J. Whitfield provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 5, ...

Scripture is clear that both go hand in hand. In seminary, my discipleship courses had a particular focus: passing on what the apostles had taught about doctrines like the Atonement and practices like ...

Reading the Gospel accounts of Good Friday, the first thing that strikes one is the degree to which the Hebrew Scriptures are present in the text. The early Christians were trying to make sense of ...

From where do we draw our images of God? Did you actually try drawing some as a child? Our God image will have a lot to do with our image of ourselves, others and life itself. When Moses talks to his ...

Last Sunday’s Gospel ended with an invitation for someone in a less esteemed seat at a banquet to move up to a more honorable one. This was meant to encourage all disciples to seek humility as a means ...

The primary scriptures, the Vedas and the Upanishads, are ideally learnt from a guru and the oral method of transmission that has prevailed since days of yore is shown to have been efficacious in ...

Between the disciples of Jesus and those whose faith is mostly performative, whose piety is a bit too much for show, there ...