UCA News Podcast

With the practical and indeed rustic common sense so characteristic of Jesus in his story telling, where he tells stories in simple terms that the people of his time and all times will grasp the mean…

One of the most arresting effects of finding fault with other people’s views or behavior is that we become completely blinded to our own shortcomings and limitations while we focus on where others ar…

Today is the feast of St. Peter Claver to whom I have a special devotion. He spent his life serving African slaves in a city to the north of Latin America. They were left out and neglected to a point…

The justly very famous Lutheran theologian Karl Barth made a very helpful distinction that applies to today’s feast of Mary’s nativity: there is a profound difference between the miracle happening by…

Something that has people glued to Jesus is his capacity to heal them of the possession by evil spirits who torment and destroy them. One of the things he empowers his followers to do is share that h…

It’s hard to exaggerate how mind numbingly self-destructive we humans can be. So it’s comforting to know that Jesus saw just how self-defeating we can be and offers a way that can see such futility r…

The way to make God's love present in this creation is to groan with Christ. Anyone who has tried to share God's love with the world comes to know that.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a …

The story in today’s Gospel recounts the reversals which have come one man’s way. Jesus enters that life to reverse the fortunes of the man afflicted with the reversals and lead him to a fuller, rich…

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The prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award has honored the role of individuals in transforming lives and societies across As…

Common sense and recognizing the priority attending to actual needs rather than simply standing on his dignity to see that the rules are kept is a hallmark of the way Jesus operates. Throughout the G…

In today’s Gospel story, Jesus faces the recurrent question of what is needed to bring lasting change - How deep and complete does the change need to go? To the roots? Case by case and a bit here and…

Today’s Gospel is as powerful a story as we find in the New Testament about God’s determination to see his will done and to the limits ways in which we can block or impede God accomplishing the very …

Today, we see a focus on two of the key features of Luke’s Gospel - Jesus contest with dark spirits that bring confusion, division and death with his Spirit, which brings joy, peace life and love. Cu…

Today’s Gospel is taken from early in Luke’s account. The Synoptic Gospels all share presentation and portrayal of Jesus as then leading God’s fight against the spirits of death and darkness and offe…

Here at this stage in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus receives the clearest outline of his prophetic mission, as Luke recalls what that mission is as described as being by the Prophet Isaiah. Then Jesus goes on…

Do my devotions, practices and thoughts deepen my understanding of real Christianity, or am I in danger of wandering from the truth? Have the customs I learned from my family, from my community and f…

Jesus makes it very clear that what he calls his disciples to is not a religion of empty formalism but one that lives from and is nourished by a conversion of heart that aims to transform the lives o…

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes.

Asia is reeling from the fallout of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the lethal spread of Covid-19 while vulnera…

To follow up the Gospel story we heard yesterday, this Gospel today directly addresses the matter of our response to Jesus’ generous call to us. God gives all the good gifts we receive not for the to…

The love of God and the call of Jesus in the Gospel can be talked about in a way that completely ignores that the call of Jesus invites a response. Jesus doesn’t simply present a call that that works…