Why do we have godparents in the first place? What does it mean to be a godparent? How might one live out that role as the child grows up?
Each culture has its own customs of greeting.
Grieving is a progressive emotional process that in its normal form is time-limited, purposive, goal-directed and restoratively healing.
All Christians need and desire guidance. It is implicit in the existence of a personal God who cares, leads and enters into personal relationships with his creatures so they will accomplish his purpose...
A habit is primarily an action, an acquired pattern of behavior, that is done often and therefore easily.
This attitude was well known in Scripture, mostly in a negative sense and closely related to anger.
Healing involves a process of bringing or restoring wholeness and sound functioning to every aspect of human life, which includes bodily integrity, emotional balance, mental well-being and spiritual aliveness
All agree that health is one of the most precious assets a person can possess, yet there is no consensus as to what health is.
Whatever definitions we use, our experiences of home, both past and present, are deeply formative.
Homemaking as a vocation has had very bad publicity in recent years.
Unless a family consciously tries to keep alive the oral stories of nonrecorded events, the video memories will eclipse the recollection of them.
Homework is ubiquitous at every level of schooling today because parents, teachers and students all believe that it increases academic achievement.
Within the churches there is need for clear teaching about sexuality and its expression in all its forms, combined with a strong pastoral response to those who have emotional, interpersonal and spiritual as...
Scripture is the testimonial of God’s relentless hospitality toward his creatures.
Humor is the ability to perceive and enjoy the absurdities and incongruities of life.
Why should we settle for uninformed, unaware or automatic imaginative living? Why should we not practice our imagination as fully as we are able?
Being a Christian is being an immigrant in the steps of our incarnate, crucified and risen Lord and looking for his return.
Being or becoming an individual is a goal to which most people aspire. It means that we are not like everyone else, that we are different from the mass.
As with all advances in technology this one is a mixed blessing, facilitating our communication and exchange and at the same time extending some present imbalances.
