Reading through the Gospel of Mark for Lent, a priest led me to enter more deeply into the scene in which Jesus calls Levi (Mark 2:13-17). The priest encouraged his listeners to not only think from the perspective of being one of the sinners Jesus dined...
The Maccabees Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): A wicked Greek man named Antiochus Epiphanes came to power and tried to undo all the hard work of...