A good Lenten exercise is to take one of the Commandments and see how you live it. For example: keeping holy the sabbath.

WHAT’S RELIGION ABOUT, to you? Is it about being good, getting to heaven? Or at least not going to hell in a handbasket?

WE DON'T often hear talk of the angry Jesus who drove the money changers from the temple, but journalist Bill Moyers reminds us of this Jesus in a speech he gave a few years back.

THERE ARE people who would like to see the Ten Commandments posted in public places like courthouses and state capitals.

We know the ways of God. We ask forgiveness for when we do not follow them.

"What sign can you show us for doing this?" Signs abound in the lectionary readings for this Sunday, no more so than in a typically multilayered passage from the Gospel of John.

The story of the cleansing of the Jerusalem Temple is one of the few included in all four gospels.

The Temple resembled a citadel, and had its own walls, which were more laboriously constructed than the others.  --Tacitus (c. A.D. 56-c. 120), The Histories