The Prophet Jeremiah wrote these words of God: "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel." (Jeremiah 18:6) Just how are we like clay, and what does God desire to ...

God uses many images to describe His relationship to His people. He speaks of the shepherd and sheep relationship, the husband and wife relationship, a Father and His children, just to name a few. All ...

God is an artisan, molding men in formation for the priesthood like potter’s clay, if the seminarian will allow the Lord to shape him. This was Pope Francis’s message October 7 to a Vatican conference ...

When the West was still wild and Oklahoma was not yet a state, a songwriter penned the prophetic words to the hymn “Have Thine Own Way, Lord”: “Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way/Thou art ...

The church’s hymnody too readily assumes that the potter-clay imagery in scripture is only about God exerting unilateral power and God’s people being passive. Consider “Have Thine Own Way Lord” (p.

“I have loved art since elementary school,” says Laurel Nalepa, a potter who lives in Manchester. When she was 14, Nalepa was hired to work with the farm animals at Shiloh Pottery in Hampstead. She ...