Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."   What was the walk out of the Garden of Eden like? Try to imagine...

Jesus liked to use landowners in His parables. In those days, it would be easy for the listeners to see the similarities between this world and the kingdom of heaven. It seems that a landowner needed a lot of workers to bring in his grape harvest.

“Extra! Extra! It doesn’t matter what any of us look like!” Short or tall; skinny or fat (excuse me, “slender,” or “gravitationally challenged”); black, white, brown, or magenta. Whatever! The exterior appearance of our corporal tent has absolutely no bearing on who we are in God’s eyes.

~ Psalms 1:1-2 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of...

As I sifted through the blurry and often hard-to-read World War II draft records, I discovered where my grandfather Antonino was actually born. It turns out it wasn't Cinisi, like my dad always said. Instead, he was from Balestrate, a town in the province of Palermo, Sicily. I quickly realized that online tools in the U.S. have their limits. To dig into my family history, I had to take some risks and explore this "branch" of my family tree. (Sorry, that pun was too tempting!)

Psalm 149: ​5  "Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon their beds." Praise the Lord with something fresh, a unique...