“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus covered in sores, who would gladly have eaten his ...

It was a sermon remnant, an odd outlier that required attention. I was reflecting on the book of Amos, one of the fiercest prophets of justice in the Hebrew scriptures. Most of the message worked with ...

Today’s dismal jobs report shows yet again that help is not on the way for the 8 million U.S. workers who lost their jobs since the start of the Great Recession. In many parts of the country more than ...

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Scott Vowell recently suggested in a ruling that part of Alabama's new immigration law may be unconstitutional based on a section of the state constitution that ...

Sitting in a pew at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Michael Thomas Kutka took the words of eighth-century B.C.E. prophet Amos — for the corrupt and greedy powerful to remember the neglected poor — ...

What can we learn from a prophet who spoke God’s word to his generation almost 3,000 years ago? Amos has a lot to teach us, consistent with what God told Moses about holiness and the heart of Jesus’s ...

In today’s first reading, we are introduced to one of the great characters of the Old Testament, a layman called Amos, farmer turned prophet. Amos came from a small village in the hill country of ...

During the eighth century B. C. there were four great prophets ministering unto the people of God. Two of these, Micah and Isaiah, conducted their ministry in the south, preaching to Judah, and two, ...

In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. quoted the prophet Amos, saying, “Justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” King returned to these words ...