by Mathew Swora | Jan 8, 2015
…after the terrorist attack yesterday (January 7, 2015) on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, the weekly French language satirical magazine. The gunmen, who claimed to be allied with Al Quaeda of Yemen, were enforcing their vigilante version of Sharia law and avenging...
by Mathew Swora | Jan 6, 2015
The inspiration for the drama that follows came 25 years ago, when a woman slapped a perfect stranger in the face in a convenience store one day in Detroit. Becky and I and our daughters were living in that area then, when American soldiers were being sent to the...
by Mathew Swora | Dec 21, 2014
Here, below, is the message for December 21, 2014, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, that I was unable to deliver due to being home with the flu: Luke 1: 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed...
by Mathew Swora | Dec 10, 2014
The Gospel passage for this coming Third Sunday of Advent (December 14, 2014) is Mary’s song, or The Magnificat, so called for the word with which it begins in Latin: (Magnificat anima mea Dominum) Luke 1: 46 And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord 47 and my...
