Such attention to the story allows the parables to become genuinely subversive. “Perhaps,” Bodner notes, “we’re all ...

The rich man is damned not for what he did, but for what he didn't do. He continually saw Lazarus suffering and did nothing.

The Sunday lectionary gospel for Trinity 13 in Year C is the first two of the three 'parables of the lost' in Luke 15, the ...

Riding into church with our grandchildren, we play a game we’ve dubbed “Green Go, Red Stop.” As you might guess, it is a game ...

Father Joshua Whitfield provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 21, 2025 ...

We can make all the excuses we want for our lack of charity, but Jesus just calls it what it is -- idolatry. "You cannot serve God and mammon," Jesus says.

In other words, people can form communities and adopt rituals without religion, and “nonreligious people have worldviews,” ...

He sits with tax collectors and sinners." This is a common attack Jesus receives in the New Testament. For instance, in Luke 15, a crowd gathers to hear Jesus teach. The crowd is divided. On one side, ...

In his “Second Homily on Lazarus,” St. John Chrysostom said that the “rich man is a kind of steward of the money which is ...

It was at church camp back in my early teens when I learned the verses, “Beloved, let us love one another for love is from ...

Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go ...