February 28

If any one wants to be first, they must be the very last—imagine what an uproar that would cause in Hollywood.

Mark 9:35-37  NP AL1-7

February 26

Fr. Webb, a Jesuit priest chooses to live in a cramped utilitarian apartment in Toronto, among the poor. It's like leaving some of the grapes on the path during harvest.


Leviticus 19:9-10  NP A11

February 25

Sometimes I just want to close my eyes and ears and plotz to all of the violence and unrest. Jesus healed many people.

Mark 7:33-35  NP A3

February 24

Psalm 40 is a metaphor for the quake in New Zealand. Lord, please comfort those who are mourning.

Psalm 40  NP A3

February 23

In middle of incredible worldly turmoil and upheaval, Jesus walks on water and quiets the storms.

Mark 6: 47-52  NP A3

February 22

We are mere phantoms as we go through this life, although some phantoms leave an incredible path of destruction. Oh Lord have mercy upon us.

Psalm 39:4-6  NP A2,3

February 21

Margaret Burroughs, an artist, printmaker, author and educator founded the South Side Community Art Center (1940's) and DuSable Museum in 1961. I often equate art with healing.

Mark 5:1-43   Chicago Sun Times 14

February 19

Will words get lost without the Dewey Decimal Library system?

Mark 4:1-24  Chicago Tribune 1

February 18

We will all wither like the grass, but when we trust God, he will make our righteousness shine like the noon day sun even when the runaway Dems put Wisconsin politics on ice.

Psalm 37  Chicago Tribune 1, 14

February

The righteous Pharisees giving Jesus a hard time, for giving someone their hand back, made me think of the bigotry of the CAUT charge against faith based schools.

Mark 3:1-6   NP A21

Febraury 16

The people who opened up the roof to let down a paralytic in order for Jesus to heal him, had few words to say. Actions speak louder than words.

Mark 2:1-5  NP AL8

February 15

You rescue the poor from those too strong from them. We don't though. According to Ezzat Fattah, one of Canada's pioneers in victim studies, we are very prejudiced against particular victims, like prostitutes for example. Forgive us.

Psalm 55:9-13  NP A8

February 14

Psychologists Arthur and Elaine Aron use brain imaging and photos to learn more about love. Jesus' friends saw him and loved him.

Matthew 28:8-10  Globe & Mail A3

February 12

Mubarak escapes to a resort — in a way Barabbas escaped also...

Matthew 27:21  NP A9

February 11

There are signs of a power struggle behind the coup that wasn't.

Exodus 32:22-24  NP A1,2

February 10

A 71-yearold woman in Britain stopped some thugs, who were guilty, from getting away by hitting them with her purse. Jesus, who is guiltless stopped the violence in the garden and surrendered.

Matthew 26: 50-51   NP A3

February 9

Jasper National Park in Alberta may be "selling out" to commercialism, which will have environmental consequences. Judas sold out with deadly consequences.

Matthew 26:14-16  NP A4

February 8

Two brothers, Sean Caulfield, a printmaking professor, and Tim Caulfield, a research director have collaborated in an art exhibition exploring stem cell research. It's not the first time that art and beauty have been debated.

Matthew 26: 6-13   NP AL8

February 7

Frank Gehry, Canadian born architect has been ordered to stop production on a $134 million glass complex in Paris. Apparently, he is outraged. God's instructions were quite explicit when he ordered the Israelites to build the ark. I don't think He would have been stopped.

Exodus 26, 27  NP A14

February 5

Mike Harcourt sees the problem in Vancouver's Eastside as one of housing, not drug abuse. He wants to solve it. Maybe he needs to look at the model on compassion, described in Exodus.

Exodus 22: 26, 27  NP A6

February 4

Jesus rebuking and chastising the Pharisees sounded like the world reprimanding Egypt.

Matthew 23: 24,25  NP A2

February 3

The control of a country or people should be by the majority of its members.


Exodus 18:17-24  NP A2

February 2

I know that grumbling about never getting a snow day, and then getting so much snow, that it felt like I was parting the Red Sea is nothing like the hungry Israelites complaining about no food and then getting food that looked like frost but...

Exodus 16: 4-15  NP A2

February 1

Clement's cartoon says it all "Let my people stay... you go.

Exodus 13:17  NP A14