Second Sunday after Christmas (Year 2, NL)

What animates our being? What possesses or consumes us?

The Christian church was born with Simon Peter’s mother-in-law.

True prophets have a different bottom line than false ones, but that doesn’t make them any easier to recognize.

In the days before every district superintendent carried a cell phone, driving the charge conference circuit was a great opportunity to listen to the radio. My favorite station was NPR. More than once I found myself totally enthralled by a broadcast story. Sometimes I would pull into my own driveway but be unable to get out of the car because I was a prisoner of a story. I sat on the edge of my seat, my hand ready to turn the car key, unable to move. Maybe it was the story about the little boy caught in a moral dilemma: he needed to tell his mother the truth about a neighborhood crime, but could not betray a confidence. What would he do?