Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Christmas

Christmas: A Woman Without Family

The prophet Anna is often missing from the Christmas story, which focuses on Jesus's birth, the wonder of the shepherds and the worship of the wise men.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Christmas, Thanksgiving

“Happy Holidays”

Tomorrow many of us will be sitting at a table laden with traditional Thanksgiving foods and offering up ways we are grateful. Perhaps it is only one thing we can be thankful for, perhaps many. But, some of us will not have a place to go, or a table spread for us.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Saturday Devotion

Shame

Learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Isaiah 1:17 (NRSV)

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: Zechariah, An Unexpected Answer

Instead of spending a lot of energy on religious rituals and ceremonies, the Lord wanted God’s people to put their love into action.