“Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.” The Lord said to her in reply, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things.

“You are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing” (Luke 10:41). Hospitality appears at first to be the lesson in both the story of Abraham and his guests (Gen 18:1-10) ...

"Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.

This Sunday’s Gospel tells us about Jesus and his visit with two very different women. Mary and Martha are sisters, siblings of Lazarus. They lived in Bethany, which we might say today is on the ...

The Rev. Michael Heath, of Fayetteville, is a licensed mental health counselor and a United Church of Christ minister. Holiday gatherings can be difficult. The biblical story of Mary and Martha (Luke ...

Sunday, July 17, is the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Genesis 18:1-10a; Psalm 15:2-3, 3-4, 5; Colossians 1:24-28; and Luke 10:38-42. Some people, in reading this Gospel about Martha and ...

Martha, Mary and Lazarus are some of my favorite people in the Gospels. As someone who’s always kept a tight circle of friends with very distinct personalities, I love that Jesus has a similar circle, ...

“As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he ...

In this brief and engaging work on Jesus' interactions with Mary and Martha of Bethany, Olson shows her chops as a professor of biblical studies (she teaches at Brigham Young University), paying very ...

The Gospel of John and medieval legend show Mary’s sister to value theology and hospitality. The summer before my senior year of high school, a new book came out called Having a Mary Heart in a Martha ...

July 29 is the feast day of Sts. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. It’s a relatively new feast day, having been implemented fewer than three years ago. You may remember these siblings — especially since they ...