The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings ...
Jesus’ parables – short stories with moral lessons – were likewise designed to afflict, to draw us in but leave us uncomfortable. These teachings can be read as being about divine love and salvation, ...
What Chris Hoke’s memoir of ministry to outcasts can teach us about seeing reality in Christ-shaped ways. To children, the world is charged with magic. One thing means another: Rain looks like tears, ...
I've been meaning to get to this one for days: A lot of people didn't like Tony Perkins' CNN Belief Blog post last week, and rightly so. Jesus was a free marketer, long before the concept was ...
Author's note: Context plays an important role in how the term "queer" is employed here. This word has a history of being used as a slur and could offend some people. However, as language evolves, ...
I imagine I am a shepherd in Judea at the time of Jesus. My cousin Reuben agrees to watch the sheep, so I can go listen to Jesus speak. Jesus asks a strange question that I answer under my breath, ...
In every epoch of the history of literature there are some books that become “classics”, something like “books of the century”, offering their times a paradigmatic image, thus having a major impact ...
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