All of us possess something like this, a hidden spot where we can feel the deep push and pull of God’s Spirit. We might even call it that inner compass.

Now a citizen of two worlds, each one operating from different instincts and expectations, he was pulled.

To convey the irresistibility of his Father’s Kingdom, Jesus images the hidden seed sprouting under the ground.

St. Paul proclaims he came upon this “Way” through personal encounter with the light and the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

A key theme in a recent workshop on intercultural living was stretching – the oftentimes painful effort needed to expand our perspectives and widen our view of what true and valuable.

That double action of the light, landing and then sinking in, provides an underlying clue to the whole direction of Jesus’ ministry.

Those years between Jesus’ adolescence and public ministry there’s only silence, only the anonymity of what writers have termed The Hidden Life.

The Christmas truth is that God’s light suffuses the dimness of those times and in the end beats back the encroaching darkness.

Advent (Ad: toward; Vent: coming), lays out the direction of the season. It doesn’t just celebrate the future but what of that future is being poured into the present.

The Kingdom Interpretation (Mk 12:44-48) To profess myself a Christian is to profess a desire – and that desire is to follow behind the Lord, Jesus Christ. Perhaps “follow behind” doesn’t quite get to the heart of it. It’s more accurately a “stepping into his...