Jesus vs. zombies: Explaining the risen Lord to a first communicant
My Table is Spread: If we believe Jesus rose from the dead, then we must believe in zombies. Right?
My Table Is Spread
Americans' skin color does not tell you who they are
My Table is Spread: The Tsarnaev brothers accused of the Boston bombings do not represent a certain type of people.
While some whip up fear, hold the middle
My Table is Spread: If we do not hold the middle, we are headed for a moral conclusion that could be tragic.
An example of love and faith to follow in these uncertain times
My Table is Spread: Erma Gorwoda taught her friends and family how to live; now she is teaching them how to die after a life full of love.
No gift of children's innocence for baby Jesus
My Table is Spread: Jesus' birth was followed by the deaths of infant boys, deaths Jesus had to have known about.
Slimming through wasting diseases
My Table is Spread: If you want to know what it's like to be an American woman, try having surgery and parasites, then watch the envious expressions on other female faces.
Religious protections are worth keeping
My Table is Spread: Religious freedom does not mean the freedom to think, a power, one presumes, even oppressive regimes cannot hold over citizens.
Balance of need is met in true community
My Table is Spread: Church is where we hear Lazarus’ story and its moral, that a person who can’t see those in need are not to be able to see God, either.
The too-much-information age
A man walks into a bar is the opening line of a joke. A man walks into a movie theater is the opening line of a homicide investigation.
This is the hottest summer in recorded Colorado history. There are forest fires in the mountains. There is gunfire in the city.
Messages in air and architecture
Our next-door neighbors built their house in 1951. Now, Bob is dead and Mildred has moved to a retirement home and the house is for sale.
Architect Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed the house. The low wooden structure opens onto a lush, walled garden, shaded and sheltered by a large linden tree. Apricot trees are espaliered along the western bricks separating our houses.
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In This Issue
May 10-23, 2013
- Illinois parish's ESL program welcomes all
- A different Mary assumes the stage
- A question few seem to consider when the US wages war afar
- [Print Edition Only] Special Section: Summer Listings
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