by Joe Phelps | Apr 25, 2011 | Opinion
The other day we buried Mary O’Connor, a woman who lived her faith every day by living out the central teaching of the Bible: to love God and neighbor seamlessly. She lived with her eyes wide open and noticed every person. She spanned west and east Louisville,...
by Joe Phelps | Mar 9, 2011 | Opinion
A columnist for the Courier-Journal, John David Dyche, challenged whether religious persons and organizations should bring their faith-shaped values to political matters and, more specifically, whether doing so is abdicating their responsibility to tend to the poor...
by Joe Phelps | Jan 19, 2011 | Opinion
Last week a man walked hesitantly into the church office asking for help to get to Cincinnati. He was just released from University Hospital and showed the plastic ID bracelet on his wrist. He’d been shot a few weeks earlier while working as a bouncer at a local...
by Joe Phelps | Dec 9, 2010 | Opinion
It is a gift to be reminded that our routine and faithful actions can be a source of God’s healing love breaking forth. After 14 Advents, Sunday’s placing of crosses on our lawn in memory of this year’s violence victims has become as much a part of...
by Joe Phelps | Nov 30, 2010 | Opinion
“Wow,” I said as I took another bite of Terri’s delectable chocolate birthday cake, “that is so satisfying I could stop right now and have my sweet fix met.” “Why don’t you then?” asked my son. I didn’t look up to...
