Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGod Has Spoken
Karl Barth said, "The central claim of Christianity is that God has spoken." The uniqueness of this claim has lead Christians to refer to God as a Tr…
15 years, 11 months ago
The Guidance of the Holy Spirit
The first reading for this Sunday, taken from the fifteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, is about the Council of Jerusalem that allowed Genti…
16 years ago
A New Heaven and a New Earth
The second reading for this Sunday, taken from the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelation, completes the Biblical story. The Bible tells us t…
16 years ago
The Lordship of Jesus
The first reading for this Sunday, taken from the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, recounts the expulsion of Paul and Barnabas from An…
16 years ago
The Structure of Discipleship
Our Gospel for today, taken from the wonderful 21st chapter of St. John's Gospel, is filled with mystical and symbolic allusions. The disciples in th…
16 years ago
My Lord and My God
Despite the locked doors, the risen Jesus stands in the midst of the disciples. This is a beautiful icon of the Church, the community gathered around…
16 years, 1 month ago
The Impossibly Good News of Easter
The Church's Easter proclamation is the strangest message ever delivered: Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. His resurrection is not merely a symbo…
16 years, 1 month ago
Which King? Whose Kingdom?
Today the Church proclaims the Passion of Christ. The story of the Lord's suffering and death haunted the minds of the first Christians. All the Gosp…
16 years, 1 month ago
All Is Loss
In our second reading for this Sunday, St. Paul lays out his resumé. In terms of the Judaism of his time, Paul was about as accomplished as one could…
16 years, 1 month ago
The Father and the Sons
The parable of the prodigal son is a portrait of God's gracious love and two negative responses to that love. Both sons, in their own ways, indicate …
16 years, 2 months ago