A severe mercy? On April 29, 2015 I wrote briefly in a social media post after reading one of my favorite daily meditations written by Jill Carattini, a portion of which is here: “Practically speaking, disillusionment is the loss of illusion. In terms of...
Miracles of Healing Ministry CBB 4-15-20 “As a very young child, perhaps 3 ½ or 4, I recall my Father taking me to see a relative of his in Barbour County, AL. My recollection is that it was his maternal grandfather’s second wife, whom family members called...
As fervently and broadly as prayers by Christians have been being raised for the last month or so since this menacing contagion came to our attention, the fact that our leaders have shifted into a more sober, cooperative, urgent, and broader-based spirit of seriously...
I received a message recently from a Facebook friend who asked this: “Cathy, you had a post awhile back regarding a young man, I think, with addiction problems that had died and how God sometimes calls people home, releasing them from their misery – does that...
A heretical bishop in the United Methodist Church had written that this story, told in Matthew 15:21-28 and in Mark 7:24-30, is an example of Jesus’ bigotry and misogyny, that he would ignore a Gentile woman’s pleading for help. But as I wrote then, after...
