When I was a child, my mother and aunt would go Christmas shopping together. At the end of the day, I would beg them to take me to the park near the shopping district....
How are Christians to understand this promise in the 21st century? We asked Gary Anderson to write an essay, and Walter Brueggeman, Marlin Jeschke and Donald E. Wagner to respond.Walter Brueggemann's responseMarlin Jeschke's responseDonald E. Wagner's responseGary Anderson's reply
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire is an exhilarating, un predictable coming-of-age story that moves with the speed of a freight train and springs as many visual surprises as an Adven...
The prevailing topic of conversation at my mother's retirement home is the food: the menu, the cooks and—not least—the order in which people are served....
"Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you were baptized?" Paul asks the believers in Ephesus.
"Uh, what's the Holy Spirit?" they reply.
If you are Paul, what do you ask now?...
Countless times over the past two decades, when this magazine had an especially important theological book to review or topic to explore, we contacted William C....
In early December the security situation had improved enough in Bethlehem for busloads of tourists to come back to visit the birthplace of Jesus and other holy sights in Israel and the West Bank....
Voices of 2008“I have come to the conclusion after two years of debate on immigration without success that it’s going to take the love of Jesus Christ to bring people together.”—Senator Chuck Grassley (R., La.), speaking on the contentious subject of immigration reform
God is “eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, holy, just, faithful, benevolent, merciful and gracious.” I can still rattle off those divine attributes learned in catechism class....
A leading Roman Catholic cleric in England has accused the Walt Disney Company of corrupting children, encouraging greed and turning its make-believe world into a latter-day pilgrimage site....