John Everett Millais' "The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow" is almost as intriguing as Jesus' parable on which the image is based: A persistent widow unrelentingly demands justice from an ...

A few times a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The Faith and Values column appears Mondays, and features retired Methodist minister Paul Graves, of Sandpoint; ...

This parable in the Bible Luke 18: 1-7 from highlights the importance of prayer in our lives. “And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, ...

Find today’s readings here. I guess you can’t actually stop me if you’ve heard this story before, but Luke’s parable of the persistent widow is one of my favorites, not only because she is a role ...

Many Jews in Jesus’ day looked forward with hope to the end of the world. The Pharisees and Essenes did so, as did the disciples of John the Baptist and of Jesus. The world all around them was ...

I have to confess at the start that the parable of the persistent widow baffles me. It raises more questions than it answers. Are we really expected to pester God in prayer the way the widow pesters ...

The worship symposium closing service will be led by the Calvin University Capella and Hope College Chapel Choir, directed by Mark Stover and Eric Reyes with organist Rhonda Sider Edgington. Nicole ...