Sunday, May 19, is Pentecost. Mass readings: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23. Pentecost is a feast about fire, a transformative, refining, ...

In the early 1900s lived a man named Frank Mason North. He was a poet. He expressed ideas that related to his understanding of Christian faith and the ministry and love of Jesus Christ. Frank Mason ...

“Come, everything is now ready” (Luke 14:16). Phil 2:5-11; Luke 14:15-24 “What if they gave a war and nobody came” is a line from a 1936 poem by Carl Sandburg, “The People, Yes,” in which a little ...

"But when the king came in to meet the guests, he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. The king said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?' But he ...

IN CHURCHES THAT follow a set lectionary, as many Christian churches do, pastors don’t get to choose the readings each Sunday. Most of the time that is not a major issue because the Gospel stories of ...

“The Feast of Peleus” by Edward Burne-Jones, 1872-81, Wikipedia. Kansas had its first frost warning last weekend. It was time for me to cull the potted flowers that I had planted outdoors last spring.

When Tudy Fennern said "yes" to the unknown four years ago, she had no way of knowing whether the new ministry she had agreed to coordinate would fall flat or do well. Feeding the community a weekly ...