“Imagine that your new pastor shows up disguised as a homeless man with a ‘Duck Dynasty’ kind of beard and a matching T-shirt…wearing old shorts that have holes in them, and if you got too...

After several painful meetings in which the new leadership at the monastery where I was living gave me long lists of why I would never be a good priest, I asked the newest leader the...

“If you knew there was a Bible story about a woman and Jesus and some perfume, but you couldn’t quite remember who the woman was or when in Jesus’ ministry she went to him or...

On this first Sunday of Lent, Father Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, asks a thought-provoking question. He tells of watching a panel of political analysts discussing candidates. Renninger asks,...

“Don’t you dare leave! Sometimes love looks like this!” Michael Renninger’s grandmother told him, as his paralyzed grandfather lay in bed covered in “green goop” from his feeding tube. This scene taught Renninger a lesson...