Week 2 (Year 2, NL)

Hans Boersma sees scripture as more open to imaginative reading than our modern methods permit. The key is faith in Christ.

The prayers of the people call us. When we answer, we invite the possibility that it is we who will be poor, hungry, sick, and in prison.

God’s experience of hospitality—in the mysterious travelers and in the person of Jesus—inspires us to think beyond an Abraham-vs.-Sarah or Martha-vs.-Mary divide.

The wrenching dislocations of World War II were often pitilessly ignored by the world. What story will be told of our time, and of us?

By the third century, the gesture of giving became miniaturized.

The New Testament offers two compelling models for our relationship with money. When translated into a vision for a whole society, each is flawed.

Who is this leader who issues this warning? Do we even begin to believe that he's the Christ?

"It is by being in solidarity with sinners that Jesus brings about reconciliation. This is not a picture of Jesus that churches often emphasize."

Peter Brown considers the fourth-century church's radicality concerning wealth—and its readiness to adapt as circumstances seemed to require.

Why caricature the rich man as smug and self-righteous when Mark shows him humbly asking an existential question?

People who are satisfied and content do not seek Jesus—only those who know there is something missing from their lives.