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“Taking care of an old house feels like a calling and a responsibility,” Katherine DeGroot said, “like we would to anything given to us from God.”

Today, more than ever, we need inspiring stories about women and men, young and old, who have lived out heroic virtue.

Normally Dec. 9 is not a holy day of obligation, but it is this year in the United States due to a quirk of the calendar.

Food can serve as a powerful force for forging deeper connections. Through the rituals of cooking and eating, we feed our friendships, creating lasting memories one bite at a time.

Responsible citizenship does not end at the voting booth — it is a moral obligation.

The gift of Advent is time to prepare ourselves to embrace all things new, for it reminds us that we continually begin again.

There’s a certain apprehension lying over the nation right now, a fear, an uneasiness, a sense of walking in the dark.

It doesn’t matter how you voted in the recent election. There are things you are worried about.

Service is about willingness, not worthiness; the church needs to be willing to actually sit down and create a plan for the creation of formal lay ministries, and then do it.