What do we live for? For the bulk of my adulthood, the answer to that question was my reputation and my validation. In practical terms, that amounted to my work and...

Production lines have a standard that helps determine when a product is fit to move to the next stage. When it meets the criteria, the item is compliant. If it doesn’t...

There are experiences that mark a transition from what has been to something new. These shifts alter the very fabric of who we are and how we live moving forward. It...

I am Canadian through the gift of immigration. My husband and I became immigrants in midlife, emigrating from Venezuela to Canada with enough years of lived experience to remember the past...

Walking through the hall of an intensive care unit, where life is often measured in heartbeats, I can easily identify the guardians, parents, or spouses: When the hands of the clock...

It can be tempting to breeze through the parting of the Red Sea. We might miss the essence behind this fantastically familiar Sunday school story. The treasure lies in the “why”...

Our passage from Matthew concerning sin and forgiveness concludes with the promise of Christ’s presence among us. The wonder of Christ’s presence is that it is not metaphorical, not an “as...

The clear message Jesus gives and Paul reiterates, to love your neighbor as yourself, is apparently not enough. Still we sin against one another, enough that Jesus and Paul must speak...

In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus is approached by a Pharisee, one who has studied the law. This Pharisee wants to know which commandment is the greatest, or most important. Matthew’s Gospel says...

Paul’s letter to the Romans is a personal correspondence to a specific Christian community. He has not yet met these Roman Christians, but, in Christ, he sees them as neighbors whom...