My father and mother met in the winter of 1976. I’ve seen photos. There they are, looking as young and untroubled as any two high-school students on a Friday-night date. Not yet parents, not yet ...

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Father Marcel Taillon, vocations director at the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, is settling into his new territory in our nation’s capital. Although many miss him in the halls of St.

RELATIONSHIP teaching has never been given its rightful place on many of our pulpits. We have never thought of ourselves as the very sons and daughters of God. In many instances, we’re coming from ...

I remember a scene from a book I once read where a father places his child on a high cabinet, then tells the child to jump into his arms. As the child trustingly launches himself into the air, the ...

“Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father/There is no shadow of turning with Thee/Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not/As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be.” You probably recognize ...

Our therapy culture has made us too comfortable with God. When theologian David H. Kelsey asked in 1993 what happened to the traditional doctrine of sin, his concern was not that it had disappeared.