The Ten Commandments set the stage for the specific, detailed laws of the Hebrew Torah. The first of these laws addresses a...
A Jesuit seminarian walks into J.P. Morgan. . . . If that sounds like the start of a joke, in the case...
If you’ve ever traveled to a foreign country, you know the feeling of being out of place in a different world. All around you are signs in a language you don’t understand. The...
After the Lord finished delivering the Ten Commandments to the Israelites, they were appropriately impressed. In fact, they were afraid because of the awesome spectacle associated with God’s...
Sam here. We’re reading The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde. Chapter 4 is about the bonds created through gift exchange and I can’t help thinking about...
The basic meaning of the eighth commandment is clear. It forbids taking something that doesn’t belong to you without the owner’s permission...
Adultery plagues our society today. It seems that not a day goes by that we don’t hear of some government official caught...
A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, "If you choose, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and...
When we read the sixth commandment in the New Living Translation, “You must not murder,” we wonder whatever happened to the “Thou...
Several months ago, I was offered a very exciting CEO position with a fast-growth company in a glamorous industry. At least it seemed so at the time, compared to my current job. We...
"I can't believe I have to patch rust spots on the truck again." "Didn't you just do them?" asked Julie, remembering my complaining from last time."Yeah, like six months ago." I began pacing...
"Now where has my painter gone?" the man wondered as he looked out the window. He'd hired a college student to paint...
Today, many families are facing the challenges of financial uncertainty. Much of the current population has not lived through a widespread financial...
My high school friends were a microcosm of school society. Eric was a photographer and yearbook editor. Ann was a leader in the marching band. Bill was the lead actor in theatre productions. Laura...
Before I reflect upon the substance of the fifth commandment, I want to note a directional change in the Ten Commandments. The...
Read Acts 17:16–34.Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and...
My friend and I were meeting at church for a time of personal accountability. So we sat in some chairs in one of the large "milling around" spaces.He said, "I love to sit...
A few weeks ago our family spent the weekend watching some old videos from when the kids were little. I had filmed...
Sam here, with Chapter 3 of Lewis Hyde's The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. Let me begin with a fairy tale. The Shoemaker and the Elves Have you ever...
If you have a sense of déjà vu when reading Psalm 53, it’s because this psalm is virtually identical to Psalm 14...
