Wow! Did you ever feel like that was happening? Maybe you didn't think you would die, but did you ever feel paralyzed, unable to reply or think of a way to deal with something? Then there's the ...
Everyone waits for something. Maybe it’s a job or a promotion. Maybe you’re waiting to meet the right man or woman. Maybe you’re waiting for God to reveal some clear direction or vocation in your life ...
If anyone were to ask about the state of Christian belief in a culture increasingly determined on disbelief, take a look at what has happened to Advent, a season whose original meaning has more and ...
Michael Aitkens wrote five series of Waiting For God between 1990 and 1994. More than 20 years later he has returned to the hit retirement home comedy for a new play based on the same characters who ...
“Be prepared for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come” (Luke 12:39). Among Pope Francis’ favorite words are “encounter” and “dialogue,” and we can add “surprise” to these. Truth is ...
According to Leo Tolstoy, “Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait” – a view that is consistent with tomorrow’s epistle reading from the Second Letter of Peter: “Therefore, beloved, ...
The great sign of power, wrote sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in his stellar Pascalian Meditations, is making people wait. Think of the medical specialist's ante-rooms, or the entertainment reporter ...
When I tell her I am 32 years old, she insists it is not possible. “You are my grandpa; you cannot be younger than my daddy.” But the truth of the matter is that I am only 32. I was born again 32 ...
Only once have I seen an audience walk out on a dramatic performance. In the second act of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (written 1952), there weren’t enough people in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre ...