Weekly sermon summaries for local and area churches.

By Aliya Deshotel These lifestyle articles seem to be a hit, so I’ll continue writing them whenever I can. I learn so much ...

Meet Jill Thompson, a blind Benedictine oblate who serves as a lector at St. Scholastica Monastery. She shares sacred texts with devotion and grace.

At the end of August 2024, my wife Cheryl suffered a stroke that turned our world upside down. She was left unable to use her left arm and leg, and could not fully care for herself. We spent the first ...

Do you remember what it felt like to be a child? Back then, everything seemed possible. We trusted the words of our parents and other “grown-ups” without second-guessing. The world was wide and full ...

Don’t insult my grandma’s hermeneutics. Her theology may not have come from seminary, but it came from suffering and trust. When the world is in chaos, well-meaning people look to console those they ...

Anxiety is an ever-present struggle — one that can grip us in uncertainty, fear and exhaustion. But in Psalm 27, King David offers a different approach to fear, one that transcends mere positive ...

Psalm 1 opens with a profound declaration: “Blessed is the one.” But who is this blessed individual? The Bible pictures the blessed person as the person many of us desire to be — joy-filled, content, ...

Psalm 10 cries out to God, "Why do you stand afar and pay no heed in times of trouble? Arrogant scoundrels pursue the poor ... The wicked boast of their greed ... their affairs always succeed!" How ...