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Our Jewish problem: Genesis 32:22-30; Romans 9:1-5
The first covenant holds forever.
Global gospel: Christianity is alive and well in the Southern Hemisphere
Christians throughout history may be justly accused of many failures, but it appears neglecting evangelism is not one of them....
Leap of love: Kierkegaard on regard for enemies
There are serious obstacles to making the spiritual adjustment required to presuppose love.
Leap of love: Kierkegaard on regard for enemies
There are serious obstacles to making the spiritual adjustment required to presuppose love.
Telling the whole story
As historians have become aware of Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon, the traditional divisi...
Reading from the margins
Reading the Bible from the margins means giving precedence to the experience and interpretive voices of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans, of the nonelite, of women, of popular and indigenous re...
A Woman of Salt, by Mary Potter Engel
Midrash refers to the rabbinic tradition of interpretation that explores scripture beyond its literal meanings....
Good Eating, by Stephen H. Webb
During the past three decades, moral concern about how animals are treated has proliferated in Western societies....
Finding a Voice, by Marlin VanElderen
Until his untimely death two years ago, Marlin VanElderen was the executive editor of the publications of the World Council of Churches....
Boys will be men
Think of a conflict between father and son, and chances are good you'll find it buried somewhere within Road to Perdition, director Sam Mendes's first film since the hugely successful, if ...
Sex and Love in the Home and A Daring Promise
The true superiority of sexual intercourse in marriage is that it does not have to mean very much," says David Matzko McCarthy. Equally provocative is Richard R....
Innate value: Utility is not an adequate ethical foundation
I have a dim recollection of Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy from a course in college....
Small carrot, no stick: A road map to nowhere
A senior Israeli official, listening to President Bush’s June 24 speech outlining U.S. policy on the Middle East, kept waiting to hear what pressure the U.S. was going to apply to Israel....
Gender and theBible: Evangelicals wrangle over new translations
A new translation of the Bible has created a tug of words between camps in the evangelical world....
Authentic replica: My Holy Land experience
On a crisp January morning when most people were struggling with New Year’s resolutions or debating whether the Patriots would get to the Super Bowl, I was snapping my fingers to the tunes of the C...
Help, St.Anthony: Another shipwreck averted
As I write, it is morning on the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of poor people and shipwreck victims and the finder of lost objects. It is June, the month of the Sacred Heart....
Quotidian acts: What local churches are doing
Forty years ago, when my kind and I were still young enough to be licensed to write crabby books (they got reviewed as “prophetic”) about American religion, the focus often fell on the public face ...
Up for adoption: Romans 8:12-25
One is not born a Christian; one becomes a Christian. This reminds me of my three-year-old friend Grace.
The joke is on us: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
"Have you understood all this?" They said yes. God must still be laughing.