n many cases we seem to be embarrassed by the ideas that spirits are real, that angels and demons exist, and that exorcisms are not an ancient misunderstanding of neurological problems.

Whatever new challenges you undertake during this season, may you find they give you strength, clarity of purpose or whatever you are seeking on your faith journey. 

Death puts an end to the time the individual has been granted for embracing God’s grace or rejecting it.

I love thinking of God’s love in that way, how he loves us simply as we are, with no expectation for what we might achieve.

The remains of some of the first people born in colonial Maryland were brought home during a solemn ceremony on Sept. 20 in Historic St. Mary’s City.