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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

Waiting for a letter. Waiting for laughter. Waiting for love. Waiting for a phone call. Waiting for a pain pause. Waiting for peace. Waiting for good news. Waiting for good health. Waiting for good ...

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 ...

I am lying in a hospital bed. This year I have spent nearly two months in the hospital, recovering from massive abdominal surgery and learning to live, practically and spiritually, with intestinal ...