The Sunday lectionary reading for the Second Sunday before Advent in Year B is Mark 13.1–8. This feels a little odd, in that ...
For we have grown into ... Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for He has been raised just as He said." (Matthew 28: 5b-6a). Reflection: On the first day of the week, at the dawning of the new ...
For an archaeologist turned journalist ... When Jesus was about 30 years old, he waded into the Jordan River with the Jewish firebrand John the Baptist and, according to New Testament accounts ...
The Gospel of Matthew recounts how the king orders the death of all baby boys following the birth of Jesus ... into the greatest kingdom in the east. A key part of his plan was the transformation ...
One of the questions that runs like a leitmotif in modern New Testament ... Pilate into obliging them and executing Jesus, I prefer a simpler hypothesis. To think that he was turned over to ...
Is Jesus God? One could turn to many places in Scripture to discover that the Bible answers this question in the affirmative.
What did Jesus imagine his role as being in this new order? What did Jesus imagine ... Jesus has played an important role in the world history in the creation of Christianity.
‘The Virgin Mary and her rosary saved my life,” writes Father Donald Calloway, a priest with the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, in his new ... transformed into a rosary. Jesus ...
In 1975, Annie Dillard won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a poetic chronicling of her creek-side ...
composer Paul Hindemith’s controversial creation is being performed in Stuttgart, Germany for the first time. In the shocking modernized version, Machaz plays Jesus as a homeless drug addict.
He turned more political, airing worries about liberal policies becoming too extreme. “A new ... see Creation?” After taking ...