First Sunday in Lent (Year A, RCL)

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

Who tests Abraham, or Jacob, or Jesus—and why?

Like the first humans, I am far from divine. 

Matthew 4:1–11

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

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.

Is there any chance that people will not sin?

When you grow up with a grandmother who insists that you thank the hens every time you gather their eggs, gratitude becomes second nature.

I have lived in the U.S. for nearly three years now, and there is so much to love: the beauty and the grandeur of the landscape, the welcome and hospitality I’ve found in one city after another, and so many new friends.

But there is one thing I don’t love so much.

If temptation were all about blatant wrongdoing, it would be far easier to avoid.