EPriest.com offers “Best Practices” resources to help parishes learn from the success of other parishes. One highlights the “Welcome Back” program at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Indialantic, Fla.

Robert Ingersoll, the famous atheist of a century ago, after delivering one of his addresses, pulled his watch from his pocket and said, "According to the Bible, God has struck men dead for blasphemy.

We live in a very twisted world, as you know, a world where everything is reversed. Dark has been substituted for light. Evil has been substituted for good. Bitterness has been substituted for ...

Patience is said to be a virtue. Said, at least, by parents to demanding children. But where does resigned passivity end and active patience begin? Samuel Beckett’s 1955 play Waiting for Godot offers ...

About six months ago I took it upon myself to organize and host a women’s Bible study in my home. I emailed a large group of women whom I thought might be interested and received a very positive ...

James 5:7-8 says “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the Earth and hath long patience for it, until he receive the ...

A famous study in the 1970s presented young children with a single, clear instruction: You can eat the marshmallow in front of you now or wait and receive a second one later. While the Stanford ...

How is your patience today? Pastor Warren Keating tells of a Sunday morning when he had a bad cold. He was coughing, sneezing, blowing his nose, and as he readily admits, “I should have stayed home ...