Thomas Johnson shares a heartfelt devotional guiding readers to encounter God personally through waiting, faith, and ...

I needed to hear it. Father Mike Schmitz’s talk, that is. “Wrestling With God in Scripture” was part of The Bible in a Year Retreat held over the weekend. I keep thinking about what the host of The ...

It's been posited that God speaks to us through circumstances: blocked pathways, dreams, feelings, inspirations, music, nature, symbols, tender mercies, thoughts and visions. Some say he communicates ...

Find today’s readings here. Both the first reading and the Gospel today give us examples of some tortured reasoning. In the first reading, from Wisdom, the “wicked” take aim at the “just one,” and ...

I'm a worrier. I worry and stress and agonize over too many things. I have fears and paranoia. When these thoughts enter my mind, I have to take a step back and decide if this is inspiration from God ...

Well, here it is, a Sunday morning in the lazy heat of summer, and you could be sleeping in, working on your golf game, biking on the Prairie Path, or reading the Tribune. But you're here, in church.

Before we do the rite of enrollment for our candidates for confirmation, it's important for them, and for all of us, to reflect at least briefly on the Scriptures today. I think it's important (and I ...