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 ...

A while ago I had given my former boss, Ralph, a copy of Scupoli’s “Unseen Warfare,” a devotional classic of the Christian Orthodox world. He and I were talking about it this week. I had been ...

At 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17, La Cañada United Methodist Church continues its series of sermons about “The Kingdom of Heaven is Like...” Chad Loucks, the church’s director of Youth Ministry and a ...