Week 1 (Year 4, NL)

The universe is filled with light that we cannot see.

If corporations are people, can they be redeemed?

It all starts with poetry.

Most religions acknowledge the contingencies and paradoxes of human life. Not this one.

2 Corinthians 13:11–13; Genesis 1:1–2:4a; Matthew 28:16–20

When this woman heard what she thought to be true about the movement of God among us, she testified.

We don't need to explain logos theology; we need to bear witness to Jesus coming into our world.

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

When I was baptized at 12, I refused what Baptists call “the right hand of fellowship.” I wanted the water but not the fellowship.

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

Modern cosmology indicates that the universe cannot have been created without any constraints. So where do we find the elusive nihilo?

Fireworks this Friday will celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence almost 250 years ago. The founders' assurance "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" was authorized by "the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God." But the meaning of that phrase has been the subject of heated debate for some time.

The story of Jesus, at least the way John tells it, begins unspectacularly. “There was a man sent by God, and his name was John.” What does John do for a living? He is a preacher. We can’t get to Jesus without going through a witness, no epiphany without preaching.