Sermons

When in the late 1990’s Sara Jessica Parker strutted onto the set of Sex and the City as the fictional Carrie Bradshaw, fans aplenty lusted after her wardrobe, in particular the shoes...

What strikes me about this pseudo-autobiographical passage is that the author believes an appeal to Paul’s sinful past and his subsequent “saving” by Christ would lend credibility. Though the author of 1 Timothy could have appealed to others parts of Paul’s life...

Homily preached by the Rev. James La Macchia: After hearing our successive readings from the Gospel According to Luke Sunday after Sunday this summer, I’m beginning to understand...

Really, does Luke expect us, “When we give a luncheon or a dinner,” not to “invite our friends or our brothers or our relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite us in return, and we would be repaid”?

Maybe it’s because they were guys: what Ambrose et al. fail to notice about the “woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years" is the woman...