Writing

A Teacher's Wherefore

A Poem by Bill Cravotta

In an age where teachers are oft maligned, a reason for their existance

Love -- Why It Is Important

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

The reason why it is so important to love others is that there are a lot of people out there who have never learned how to love themselves -- and they..

Pain

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, the Enterprise crew encounters an emotional Vulcan who has the power to take away peoples' pain. The catch was tha..

False Prophets and the Face in the Mirror

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

Watch out for false prophets! They’re hungry wolves disguised as harmless sheep. You’ll be able to tell them from real prophets by the sor..

Religion is Not an Opiate

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

I think my point is that religion is not an opiate. We do not use it to deny real life and real pain. Death is real and death is powerful, but so too ..

Hurting in the Name of Jesus

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

As the time of his death was getting closer, he looked long and hard toward Jerusalem and set off in that direction. He sent messengers ahead of ..

MATTHEW 25:45

A Poem by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

A Christian died in the streets of Boston,He had no home to rest his weary head.Being more like Christ than all the lost onesWho securely dwell in sta..

Which Is Harder -- Compassion or Blame?

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

So Jesus got back in the boat and sailed back across the Sea of Galilee. He returned home. And check it out! A bunch of people brought a man on a str..

Spiritual Tax-Collectors -- The Sick Leading the S..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

As Jesus left from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting in a tax-collecting office. Jesus said to him, “Be my student!” And Matthew g..

Chastity

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

For Saint Ignatius, chastity is more than simply refraining from sex. The step of embracing chastity coincides with that of abandoning the world and g..

Tasting the New Wine -- Being Religious Rather Tha..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

Then John the Baptist’s students went to Jesus and asked him, “Why do we and the lay-ministers fast so much, but your students never do?&r..

Who Is Unclean?

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

Check it out! While he was still saying these things, a prominent figure about town came to Jesus and fell down on his knees in front of him, saying, ..

When You Love Somebody

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

When we love someone, those who are important to the person we love become important to us. If we love God, then those who are important to God beco..

Prayer

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

The issue for me is not whether God answers prayer or not; the issue is that we have reduced prayer to being something that requires an answer. ..

Nobody Comes to the Father Except... or Should It ..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

When Jesus says "No one comes to the Father except by me" and "I am the way, the truth, and the life," and when it is claimed that through Jesus, all ..

The Great Commission

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

The Great Commission at the end of Matthew's Gospel is not a command to "Go out and make disciples of all nations," it is a statement of being: "Where..

Finding Yourself on the Wrong Side of God

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

In the Bible, the people who often find themselves on the wrong side of God aren't necessarily BAD people, they just usually resent the fact that God'..

Show, Don't Tell

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles

Maybe at Confirmation, or at Conversion, or at sometime in Sunday School or Youth Group, experienced Christians should be giving all new or budding Ch..