Week 1 (Year 2, NL)

Stephen Greenblatt weaves an impressive—but incomplete—tapestry of interpretations of the story of the Fall.

This week’s readings challenge us to adopt a particular posture.

Jesus wasn't popular.

Like the first humans, I am far from divine. 

Princeton Theological Seminary's farm grows food. But this isn't the main point.

Did Jesus mean that all the things we mean by accomplishment, and maturity, and reason, and progress, are actually small niggling things that we must finally shuck and lay aside, in order to again be like children, spiritually open and emotionally naked and constantly liable to giggling?

In John's prologue, the incarnate Word is the God of creative address.

Like Adam, we may end up treating God as if God were at the periphery. But where there is no center—or where we become the center—the circumference of life disappears.

Karl Giberson offers a cultural history of the Bible's first human. It's an intriguing and unsettling story.

A recent Templeton Foundation program sought to cultivate local conversation on science and faith. We asked some pastors to describe their experience.

My Presbyterian granddaughter hasn’t heard about 500 years of conflict over “the real presence.” At her cousins' Catholic church, she washed down the wafer with a large gulp from the cup—and then another.

Is there any chance that people will not sin?