Mark 10

Why does the crowd demand that Bartimaeus be silent?

Bumbling along in the footsteps of Melchizedek

What if Jesus is talking about humility rather than possessions?

Is there any good news in Jesus' teaching on divorce?

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.

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?

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.

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

For there to be a heresy about the cross, there would have to be an orthodoxy about it. Michael Gorman argues that contentions over how Jesus saves lead to an inadequate grasp of what the Passion means and does.

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

Academics may find no theological breakthrough in Brian McLaren's latest book, but the ones who care about church life may still do a double take.

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."

At first, Mandy was hesitant to come to the children's moment. Before long, some people thought she had become too comfortable in worship.

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

I once saw children's ministry as a steppingstone to something else. This attitude put me in league with the hindering kind of disciples.

On a recent afternoon, I skimmed from page to page in the newspaper, glancing at headlines about environmental deregulation, an increase in the state murder rate, schools that aren’t educating their students, massacres in Syria and other grim realities. My reaction? I’m embarrassed to confess: “Not my problem, not my problem, not my problem, and not my problem.” Then I turned to the sports section.