Having been raised in the church, I am quite familiar with the custom of washing feet. From what I’ve been taught and what I’ve read about it in my alone time, it’s a gesture that is popular within ...

“Master, are you going to wash my feet?” (John 13:6). Exod 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 116; 1 Cor 11:23-26; John 13:1-15 Social distancing will deprive us of the communal dimensions of our Holy Week services in ...

We gathered one afternoon at the Stewpot homeless kitchen in downtown Dallas where we welcomed 12 homeless women and men into a darkened, candle-lit room. We put on an acapella recording of the hymn ...

There’s nothing quite like a sunny day on the beach. The warm sun on your skin, breeze in your hair and a shoe containing human remains next to you in the sand. Yes, you read that right. According to ...

Pope Francis has made a change to the Roman Missal officially permitting the washing of women's feet in the Holy Thursday ritual. This is in many ways not a big deal. Many parishes in the United ...

Perhaps predictably, in an age which does not understand why the priestly fraternity is male, a controversy has erupted in the Diocese of Venice, Fla. There, Bishop Frank Dewane, to the consternation ...

Next week I’ll have my feet washed. And I’ll wash someone’s feet. The Ekklesia Project will gather to explore the theme of The Church As Politics, addressing issues such as “the rise of nationalism ...