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By Sonja Corbitt   In all of history, there has never been a book like the Scriptures. God, absolute Being, yearns there for your consideration. “The word of God is living and active” (Heb [...]

By Melanie Rigney Sandy and I were in the smart kids’ math and English classes for seventh and eighth grade, and in the same Y-Teens group. We hung out almost every day the summer between eighth [...]

By Kara Johnson “Brothers and sisters: You heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it…” ~ Galatians 1: 13-24 By this [...]

By Kathleen Billings My family and I recently moved from our home of fifteen years in Illinois to a mini-farm in South Carolina. We left behind our small established family vineyard of 53 vines, [...]

By Maria Morera Johnson     In today’s Gospel, Luke recounts that Jesus summoned the Twelve Apostles, gave them authority to cast out demons and heal the sick, and instructed them to go [...]

by Lindsay Schlegel   The first section of today’s first reading is kind of a gut punch for me. At the end of each day, I’m accustomed to considering what I did and what I didn’t do. But [...]

by Danielle Bean   In today’s Gospel, Jesus shares a pretty challenging teaching: “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil [...]

By Sherry Antonetti     “What is Apollos, after all, and what is Paul? Ministers through whom you became believers, just as the Lord assigned each one. I planted, Apollos watered, [...]

By Kelly Wahlquist In preparation for a WINE & Shrine Women’s Pilgrimage through Italy, our pilgrims receive the usual traveling tips—what to pack, temperatures to expect, where to get [...]

By Katie Taylor     Reflecting on today’s Gospel from Matthew 20:1-16, I am reminded of how we are all called to work in His vineyard. WINE brings together women in the New [...]