Postmodernism, with its critique of modern assumptions about knowledge, language, authority and narrative, presents new challenges for preachers. Postmodernity is generally seen as entailing a ...

For I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him as crucified (1 Cor. 2:2). The ancients built the tower of Babel to scale the parapets of heaven. Athens erected her altars to gods ...

The Passion narrative of St. Matthew begins in the 26th chapter. It starts with a subordinate clause linking our Lord’s suffering and death to his prior preaching. When Jesus finished all these words, ...

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. I am debtor ...

At the entrance to Jerusalem’s Church of All Nations, next to the Garden of Gethsemane, there is a sign warning every visitor: NO EXPLANATIONS INSIDE THE CHURCH. This was intended to discourage ...

The conversion of St. Paul is important not only for our understanding of Paul but also for an understanding of our own Christian discipleship. Paul’s encounter with the crucified and risen Jesus ...

Some social conflicts seem so deep and pervasive that they cannot be easily defined. During World War II, General De Gaulle described the confrontation between French Liberty and German National ...