Fifty years of the Lectionary cycle; transforming your tools.

"A church that looks like a church" vs. a church built upon martyrdom.

The Berlin Wall and scaling the wall of mortality.

Climbing trees and finding mercy.

It's time to examine the "interior monologue" that each of us carries on with ourselves.

Jesus' parable is hilarious. For one thing, it is almost as if the unjust judge can overhear the narration about his turpitude.

The homilist was off last weekend. -- The Naaman incident gives us a picture of the evolution of the idea of God, who is supreme and not a "local god." Naaman still requests two mule-loads of earth from Israel, so he can have a "local connection."

This was our "Mass in the Grass." You may remember from last year that my homily was interrupted by a football game and the national anthem. This year it didn't happen. I did not say to the congregation, though I was sorely tempted to do so: "Well, they didn't do civic religion, but they did have whistleblowers."

Cats have nine lives. People re-invent themselves. But our God wills that we be simply a person, not a persona.

Note the calf in the Old Testament reading and the Gospel.