As far as beginnings go, we’d have to look far and wide to find something more dramatic than the one portrayed in chapter 9 of the Acts of the Apostles: Paul knocked over and blinded on that Damascus road.

“Handing on the tradition” is a phrase often connected with matters of faith.

Where are the assurances that these claims about Jesus rising to new life have any substance?

All of us have heard the phrase, “living in the past.” Usually it has a negative ring – – somebody missing out on the good things happening now because he or she lives on memories of a bygone day. 

“Dense” is a one-word description for people who have trouble seeing beneath the surface of things.

How is that the glory of God supplies motivation, gives the impetus for getting up and doing something?

Job has the well-deserved reputation as a complainer. Throwing up his hands, he whines to God, “How long is this misery going to lasts, this drudgery, these troubled nights.” (Job 7:1-7)

God’s Call is a theme that runs all through the Scriptures. Where does God’s call occur and to what does it summon us?

There’s a phrase which often enough appears in stories having to do with someone coming up against his or her limits.

The Christmas gospel from St. Luke starts out on a theme of power, the political power of an absolute ruler, Caesar Augustus.