I think it’s a question of “first fervor” and its eventual diminishment, when the initial enthusiasm for any project that ...

REFLECTIONS TODAYJust as Jesus is about to close his discourse at the Last Supper, he leaves the best gift to his beloved disciples, his gift of peace. He ...

The choice to cultivate healthy habits is ours. And that’s true, spiritually, as well.  I recently attended a class covering ...

6:15).” In New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity: Volume 15: Ancyra, Pessinous, Pisidian Antioch and Iconium, ed. James R. Harrison and Clint Burnett. Atlanta: SBL Press. Forthcoming. “‘They ...

In Acts 13:14, 43-52 Paul and Barnabas passed on from Perga and came to Antioch of Pisidia ... dust from their feet against them, and went to Iconium. And the disciples were filled with joy ...

the regions of PISIDIA & LYCAONIA Antioch, Lystra, Derbe, Iconium - cities visited by Barnabas & Paul in Southern Galatia (Acts 13:13-14:24; 16:1); note that this "Pisidian Antioch" is different ...

Here in this simple truth is what shaking the dust off our feet also means, handing over what we cannot do, but recognising this is also done in joy, for after Paul and Barnabas had left Antioch for ...