13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, RCL)

What makes kindness a distinctive mark of the new creation?

Fred Gaiser offers a sober, accessible review of the biblical materials pertinent to our thinking about healing.

Why does Elijah try to spare Elisha? Does he simply prefer to die alone?

Most people think of politics as a regrettable but necessary business. Necessary, because we live in a world of scarce resources, there are many of us, and our needs, interests and desires conflict. We need agreements as to the fair distribution of these limited goods, and an established authority to ensure the policing of those agreements.In the fight over these scarce resources, each of us fears being revealed as greedy, insecure, envious and deceitful. But imagine a different kind of politics—a politics of love.