One of my favorite parables of Jesus is found in Matthew 13:24-43 ... the Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds. It is a great reminder to all of us, in the church and outside the church, to not be so ...

Last week, the Sunday Gospel began reading Matthew 13, a chapter that contains multiple parables about the Kingdom of Heaven. We began with the Parable of the Sower and Seed, discussing the fate of ...

You can't fix the mortgage mess if you don't understand what caused it. That's not finger-pointing. That's common-sense. A Biblical parable offers insight into why bad mortgage loans now threaten ...

The Rev. Jan Mahle, a campus minister at D'Youville College, is interim co-pastor of Cleveland Heights Christian Church, Cheektowaga. A graduate of Methodist Theological School in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

Elder Donald D. Deshler of the Seventy, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: We learn in this parable that God permits both wheat (the good crop) and tares (the weeds) to grow together ...

In my commentary for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, I called for us to move society out of the painful birth pangs of racism to deliver justice for all people. The readings from last week and ...

Sunday, July 23, is the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Wisdom 12:13, 16-19; Psalm 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16; Romans 8:26-27; Matthew 13:24-43 or Matthew 13:24-30. Today’s Gospel featuring the ...

This grain’s genome echoes of the strength found in the diversity of God’s people. Like many kids, I grew up picking wild grasses believing that they were wheat. I would pick one from the yard of my ...