In many ways, nations resemble people. Just like human beings, nations go through mood swings. Sometimes their populations are ecstatic, and at other times a psychological malaise hovers over the land ...

“Go! Marry a prostitute and beget children of prostitution! For the land is guilty of the most hideous kind of prostitution for forsaking YHWH.” — Hosea 1:2 The Inclusive Bible The prophet Hosea was ...

“Brothers and sisters, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Let us therefore join our hearts together in prayer. . . .” With these words, I invite my ...

Pursued: God’s Divine Obsession With You by Jud Wilhite (FaithWords, Feb.) takes on the messy biblical tale of Hosea and Gomer. God tells the prophet Hosea to marry the prostitute Gomer, whose ...

The first reading for Mass on July 6, from Hosea, seemed tailor-made for what was arguably the most bizarre and constitutionally perilous 36 hours in U.K. political history. The previous day, two of ...

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