In Scripture, a vocation to serve God is rarely a smooth path forward. Today’s readings reflect the frustrations that sometimes come with answering God’s call. Jeremiah, in this Sunday’s first reading ...

Ajith Fernando lays out the essentials of cross-cultural discipleship. The challenge of cross-cultural discipleship belongs not only to missionaries but to all who call themselves Christians. Between ...

Pastors have a lot of thoughts about discipleship, but they aren’t sure it’s happening in their churches. In the first part of the State of Discipleship study from Lifeway Research, U.S. Protestant ...

When the Gospel of John contrasts walking in the day to walking at night, we know it refers to more than getting home before curfew. What may surprise us in today’s readings is that the story of the ...

Are you living as a believer or a disciple? Many profess faith but miss the fullness of a life that reflects Jesus. The parable of the soils reveals how neglecting to apply Scripture leaves us ...

In 1999, Oblate Fr. Ronald Rolheiser published The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality. It was an author's dream, selling some 250,000 copies and establishing Rolheiser as a beloved ...

who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’? Would he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat. Put on your ...