By the time of March Madness, entries were pouring in for the Foley poetry contest, with its $1,000 prize. We heard from Ljubljana, Slovenia; Alicante, Spain; Lagos, Nigeria; and Vatican City; plus Dijon, Edmonton, Queensland and Kerala State.Forty entries came to us from the seventh grade at Lakesi
The prophet Elijah ldquo went to Zarephath of Sidon to the house of a widow rdquo While Elijah was at the widow rsquo s home her son died Already bereft of a husband which itself often led women into poverty in the ancient world she has now lost her son the remaining source of her emotional
Jesus rsquo love for the weak and marginalized is made manifest in a powerful account in Luke rsquo s Gospel as is the human willingness to label and disenfranchise people we consider less worthy In today rsquo s narrative Jesus suggests that we start to identify who we truly are in relationship
In 2010 the film critic Roger Ebert told Esquire: “All is well. I am as I should be.”