The Jesus of Luke is an enormously powerful figure. I mean he comes on the scene as a prophet straight out of the Hebrew Bible. At his first appearance in his hometown synagogue he quotes the ...

The Bible underscores the necessity of works enabled by grace, affirming that faith alone does not complete our salvation.

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 ...

The Bible, in particular ... are almost entirely taken from the third chapter of Ecclesiastes (3:1-8) in the Old Testament.

Written by scholars who love the text and love teaching it, this volume introduces students to the multiple ways people around the globe interpret the Bible, with special focus on the parable of the ...

Opinion: The Bible advises welcoming strangers, feeding the hungry and loving enemies ... will that be the Johnson agenda?

Jesus was passing through Jericho. There was a chief tax collector there named Zacchaeus, who was rich. Zacchaeus was a little man, and wanted to see Jesus, so he climbed a sycamore tree. Jesus lo ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

As a careful historian, Luke sets the scene of Jesus' birth in its political context by mentioning various rulers and places at the time (2:1-4 ... Samaritan (10:25-37). He alone tells us ...