The total eclipse experienced here in northeast Ohio last Monday still has people talking. In the dentist’s waiting room today, a woman joined me after she announced herself to the receptionist, plopped herself across from me and immediately began: “How about that eclipse?” We rattled on about it until I was called to that ominous... Continue Reading →

Clevelanders can hardly breathe with all the excitement of baseball’s opening day and the total solar eclipse occurring at the same time, April 8, 3:13 p.m. And, in between, the Womens’ NCAA Final Four taking place at our own Rocket Mortgage Field House from April 5 through 7. We are awash with anticipation and excitement!... Continue Reading →

(Well, one of the names is spelled with one ‘c’ and the other with two.) Photo credits: Getty Images / The New York Times If you follow the NFL, you are aware that the Cleveland Browns did not renew the contract with Joe Flacco, the quarterback they signed from the Jets last season to replace... Continue Reading →

Adobe Stock This Easter we will hear John’s account of discovering that Jesus has risen. The main character in all four of the Evangelists’ accounts is Mary Magdalene who leads a cadre of other faithful women to the burial site where they hope to anoint the body of Jesus. Let’s picture this scene. We are... Continue Reading →

Photo Credits: Adobe Stock Palm Sunday begins next week’s harrowing account of our Redemption. Over centuries legends have magnified the event to set our dispositions toward a meaningful appreciation of what happened on the coming important days. For instance, we have adopted palm branches as the “leafy branches” one of the evangelists describes in his... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com We humans are a competitive lot, aren’t we? This isn’t bad either. Being competitive makes us strive higher, work harder, uncover competencies we never knew we had. There is a joy in achievement and a contribution in making the world a little better because of our competitive achievement, even in sports! I... Continue Reading →

Photo credit: Pixabay.com In the Gospel for this coming Sunday, March 10, we have what many writers tell us is one of the most poetic and beautiful lines in the Christian Scriptures: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: ajrehn.files.wordpress.com This coming Sunday, March 3, we will hear John’s version of the Cleansing of the Temple which is placed at the beginning of Jesus’s public life, whereas in Matthew and Mark it is placed near the end of his life. John gives the story a fuller treatment going so far as to... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Mary Ann Flannery, S.C. I have a very informative map of the Holy Land which I received as part of the tour I had taken two years ago in September. On one side is an enlarged display of where Jesus traveled during his mission along with an accompanying sidebar legend indicating exactly where... Continue Reading →

Screenshot This is an honest question. And it begs for an answer. Let’s look at a quick history and then how charity fits into the answer. Black History Month began first as Black History Week, an initiative of Carter G. Woodson, a founder of the Association for the Study of African American History. The son... Continue Reading →