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Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill is an author, lecturer and biblical scholar. For our Lenten reflection series she offers her own translation of many of the Psalms. She is also the co-author, with Joseph Papp, of Shakespeare Alive!
FaithAdvent Reflections
If I had ever managed to find time to take the divinity school course on “Troubling New Testament Texts,” I would have lobbied to include today’s Gospel passage on the syllabus.
FaithAdvent Reflections
I like to think of Elizabeth’s unborn baby, the future prophet John the Baptist, dancing with delight in today’s Gospel of the Visitation.
FaithAdvent Reflections
How can we spare the time to let others know of our care and concern?
FaithAdvent Reflections
The paralytic’s friends might have told him in dismay, “Let’s come back another day when it is less of a hassle.” But that is not what they said.
FaithAdvent Reflections
There is scarcely a parent alive who has not at some point uttered the words, “You’re not wearing that, are you?”
FaithAdvent Reflections
The three questions God asks Adam and Eve lay bare the threefold nature of their wrongdoing.
FaithAdvent Reflections
We are called to place ourselves intentionally within the physical and temporal structures in which God may speak to us.
FaithAdvent Reflections
Buoyed by that love and mercy, we find wholeness — peace — through acts of kindness, healing and justice.
FaithAdvent Reflections
All of us occasionally have “last straw” moments in our lives, when we feel we simply cannot bear the weight of one more demand.
FaithAdvent Reflections
The person who fears the Lord will follow his or her conscience.