Last Sunday, we heard the earlier part of Matthew's Gospel where Matthew describes how John the Baptist is the one coming to prepare the way of the Lord. Remember, John began to teach in the desert of ...

On the first day of our introductory preaching course, my colleague presents a continuum. At one end is the view that the preacher has sole responsibility to make the gospel heard, to get Jesus to ...

If Jesus walked into your church this Sunday and preached, what would he say? That’s a question pastor Jim Martin has asked on his blog, A Place for the God-Hungry. Jim is pastor of Crestview Church ...

Amy-Jill Levine, who teaches New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt, is the author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus and coeditor of The Jewish Annotated ...

The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of ...

Sunday, May 16, is the Seventh Sunday of Easter. Mass Readings: Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 47:2-3, 6-9; Ephesians 4:1-13; Mark 16:15-20. It’s the Seventh Sunday of Easter, but most readers of this will be ...

Probably we noticed, as we listened to the gospel, that Jesus really does not answer the person's question, the one who cried out from the crowd, "Will only a few be saved?" Obviously the person ...

Frascati (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday morning, July 15, the Holy Father Benedict XVI paid a pastoral visit to the suburbicarian diocese of Frascati, where he presided at a concelebrated Mass at the ...

Prepare yourselves for the onslaught. Scot McKnight is venturing into the “What Is the Gospel?” war that’s been waging between the Neo-Calvinists and…well, everyone else. McKnight’s new book, due out ...