Walter Brueggemann
Believing again
Marcus Borg has emerged as the Jesus Seminar scholar with the keenest theological sensibility and the most accurate read ...
Inventing the poor
Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, former president Jimmy Carter remarked that the “growing gap between the rich and poor” is ...
Classroom encounters: The voices behind the text
In the safe, posh setting of the seminary, the Bible can seem straightforward enough....
Off by nine miles: Isaiah 60:1-7; Matthew 2:1-12
Herod tells the Eastern intellectuals the truth, and the rest is history.
Canon fire
Since the publication of his Biblical Theology in Crisis in 1970, Brevard Childs (recently retired from Yale Divinity School) has pursued ...
Biblical authority: A personal reflection
The authority of the Bible is a perennial and urgent issue for those of us who stake our lives on its testimony....
Listening to the text
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel, by Robert Alter
...The liturgy of abundance, the myth of scarcity
The majority of the world's resources pour into the United States. And as we Americans grow more and more wealthy, money is becoming a kind of narcotic for us....