Author: Diana Shellenberger   “They will know we are Christians by our love.” Traditional hymn based on John 13:35   Some people who call themselves Christians have substituted the love the hymn praises for love...

Author: Larry Dansky Praise God the construction worker, who builds up the city.                Praise God the social worker, who heals the brokenhearted.                Praise God the nurse, who...

Author: Nancy Wade   When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts...

Author: Carolyn Gard Two weeks ago, we remembered the assassination of President Kennedy. Like many people my age, I remember where I was when I heard the news (teaching first grade) and the next few days being tied to the television....

Author: Larry Dansky “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”  ― Epicurus “If the only prayer you said was thank you, that...

Author: Nancy Wade Every year for the past dozen or so years, on Thanksgiving Day, after we have toasted each other with glasses of mellow wine, tasted spicy appetizers, and carved the turkey; after we have eaten more than our share of...

Author: John Bisceglia   In Torah, the book of Genesis, chapter 11 verse 6, we learn that God knows that if we are of one mind, we can accomplish anything.   In the gospel of John, in the garden of Gethsemane, in the...

Author: Karen Hoover   And God said, “let there be light” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness God called Night....

Author: Larry Dansky The more you trust the loving presence within you as the truth of who you are, the more fully you will call it forth in yourself, and in all those you touch. No matter how wrong or lacking we may feel, or how...

Author: John Bisceglia   "The greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and your neighbor as yourself."   In our Bible study a few weeks ago, there was a passage about doing the...