This Sunday’s Gospel tells us about Jesus and his visit with two very different women. Mary and Martha are sisters, siblings of Lazarus. They lived in Bethany, which we might say today is on the ...

"Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.

Sunday, July 17, is the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Genesis 18:1-10a; Psalm 15:2-3, 3-4, 5; Colossians 1:24-28; and Luke 10:38-42. Some people, in reading this Gospel about Martha and ...

The Rev. Michael Heath, of Fayetteville, is a licensed mental health counselor and a United Church of Christ minister. Holiday gatherings can be difficult. The biblical story of Mary and Martha (Luke ...

One of my father's favorite sayings was, "If all else fails, read the instructions." That humorous advice is insightful in its analysis of human behavior, and its subtle underlying message is ...

The Bible does not specify the birth order of siblings Martha, Mary and Lazarus, but I just feel in my bones that Martha was the oldest sister. (It takes one to know one.) Today’s Gospel reading is a ...

Find today’s readings here. “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her” (Lk ...

“You are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing” (Luke 10:41). Hospitality appears at first to be the lesson in both the story of Abraham and his guests (Gen 18:1-10) ...

Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992. Carnegie Institute, Museum ...