This past week, we began the period of Ordinary Time, the counted (i.e., ordinal) weeks in the liturgical calendar. Today’s readings inspire us to think about our calling from God. As on the feast of ...

Like many of you, I do not appreciate all the telephone calls I receive. I really do not appreciate unwanted calls on my cell phone. Even with caller I.D., we are never quite sure if the call is a ...

I listened attentively while cooking dinner at my parents’ house to my mother reading Bible stories to my 3-year-old son. They were at the part of the story of the sons of Jacob, when Joseph’s ...

How community helps us discern our callings. When the Emmy Awards honored Fred Rogers with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, he did something that took everyone in the room off guard. The beloved ...

Our view of God, and our understanding of the story in which we find ourselves, shapes how we “be“ and ”do“ church together. It seems that, in the wider church, there are two opposing narratives to ...

Sometimes the church that seems the perfect fit doesn’t want to try us on. And sometimes the church that seems wrong turns out to be ever so right. A call to a specific church can be as mysterious as ...

Some people believe that one of our candidates for president has been called by God to save the country. As someone who believes that God has called her to public ministry, I respect the notion of ...