This Sunday's lectionary reading for Year A, Epiphany 3, is Matt 4.12–23. The epistle is 1 Cor 1.10–18, where Paul gets into ...

Something very strange happens in John’s Gospel. Unlike any of the other Gospels, it indicates — directly — who its author is. And yet it also doesn’t tell us who he is. At the very end of the Gospel, ...

The Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the first disciple of Christ and the patron saint of Russia, remains a symbol of missionary work, spiritual service and continuity of the Orthodox tradition. His ...

When the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean met in 2007 in Aparecida, Brazil, they proclaimed, "The church is called to a deep and profound rethinking of its mission … confirming, renewing, ...