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Mutant ministry: Jonah 3:1-5, 10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Psalm 62:5-12
Jonah is prophetic minimalism gone amok.
Plain old sloth: A case of soul-weariness
I’ve had plenty of chances to laugh at myself in the last year....
Let’s argue
Despite the size and historic importance of mainline churches, say sociologists Robert W...
Which ecumenism?
Christians seek the unity for which Christ prayed by looking together to the "faith of the church through the ages." This gospel truth embodied in the scripture and Christian history is what is mea...
Divine Hiddenness, by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul K. Moser
If God exists, then why hasn't he made his existence sufficiently clear? The philosopher J. L....
Heart and Head, by Dwight N. Hopkins
Black theology has matured and assumed greater clarity and analytical depth since its origins in the 1960s. Dwight N....
Nourishing Faith Through Fiction, by John R. May
Faith is a meaning-seeking venture, and believers are simply those who sense the grace-full Mystery afoot in this world, says John May....
The Case Against Q, by Mark Goodacre
The theoretical source of many Jesus sayings in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke has long been considered a sure thing in New Testament studies....
The weight of the ring
Even those who fell in love with last year's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring may find themselves staggered by the sequel, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. ...
Tools of terror: Weapons of destruction at home
During the most recent political campaign, two snipers were on the loose near the nation’s capital, ultimately killing ten and wounding another three persons....
In the year 2002: Catholic sex abuse and cover-up tops headlines
The biggest religion news story of 2002 was a January-to-December drama of distressing proportions....
A vision of justice: John Rawls, 1921-2002
As liberal democracy spreads across more and more of the globe, the influence of John Rawls seems likely to spread....
Resurrection faith: N. T. Wright talks about history and belief
New Testament scholar N. T. Wright, who has taught at Cambridge, Oxford and Montreal, recently became the canon theologian at Westminster Abbey in London....
Breaking ranks: Glenn Loury's change of heart—and mind
Glenn C. Loury had a lot going for him in the 1980s. The first black to be tenured in economics at Harvard, Loury was a famed black neoconservative and opponent of affirmative action....
Faith and doubt at Ground Zero: Interfaith conversation
On the morning of All Saints Day 1755, while the faithful citizens of Lisbon were attending mass, the city of 250,000 was crushed by a catastrophic earthquake, fire and flood....
Making merry: The world of the organ
"The rising of the sun / And the running of the deer, / The playing of the merry organ / Sweet singing in the choir” rings the chorus of “The Holly and the Ivy,” a favored carol of the season....
A watery solution: Mark 1:4-11; Genesis 1:1-5
From the first instant of creation, water has played midwife to God’s creation story. After the flood, God set a rainbow in the clouds. God saw your people as slaves in Egypt, and led them to freedom through the sea. God brought their children through the Jordan to a promised land. And in the fullness of time, God sent Jesus, nurtured in the water of a womb.
Course correction: Jeremiah 31:7-14
I agree with Bill Moyers, who says that poetry is the most honest language he hears today. Poetry is the instrument of the prophet. If you want to discover the real news of the day, turn off the cable news networks and take a trip to your bookshelf or the local library and read some poetry. Poetry exposes truth and stays anchored to it.
Jesus climbs the charts: The business of contemporary Christian music
"We weren’t really sure what to do,” Daniel Davison said, after his entire rap-metal band Luti-Kriss got “saved” at an Assemblies of God revival service....
Noah's Curse, by Stephen R. Haynes
Few biblical tales are more confounding than the legend of Noah and his sons....