While waiting at the airport for her plane to begin boarding, a woman sat reading her newspaper. Earlier, she had purchased a package of cookies at the kiosk to eat after she got on the plane. Out of ...

Many prayers are associated with St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast day is July 31. (While churches and other apostolates under the care of the Jesuits, for whom Ignatius is the patron, celebrate his ...

In today’s Gospel, we read the parable of the generous landowner, which builds on themes of mercy using images of economic and social disparities. This parable has several interpretive possibilities.

Most of us are familiar with the Good Samaritan. He was a character that Jesus used in a parable he told a religious leader of his day. Jesus told this story to describe what true religion is supposed ...

Enter the term generosity into your theological dictionary. It is not yet there, at least not in the dictionaries on my shelf. Most reference books ungenerously skip from “Generation, Eternal” to ...

In life, Christians face the choice of either being open to encountering God's generosity or closed in on their own interests, Pope Francis said. The banquet that Jesus often refers to in his parables ...

In the Parable of the Rich Man, Jesus tells the story of a man whose land had produced more crops than he could store. His solution was to tear down his existing buildings so that he could build ...

If we hear a story too many times, we may stop listening to it. Familiarity doesn’t necessarily breed contempt, but it can give rise to a weary been-there-heard-that deafness. The parable of the Good ...

Motivational writer Ken Blanchard teams up with Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy for The Generosity Factor: The Power in Holding Things with Open Hands, a contemporary allegory about the importance ...