Wilderness Preacher

Any casual reader of the Gospels will know that Jesus had a great deal to say about wealth and possessions and our proper response to th...

In  a  recent post I wrote about the importance of Jesus’ own faith in God. The question that might follow up this  post  concerns the orig...

Jesus consistently engaged in debate with Israel’s two main religious-political parties: the Pharisees and the Sadducees. These two groups,...

The narrative structure of Mark’s Gospel has fascinated me for years. Unlike Matthew and Luke, the two Gospels most similar to Mark, Ma...

Over the years that I have spent reading the Gospels, I have come to the conclusion that Jesus was not simply a teacher of spirituality...

Twenty-first century America is more pluralistic and religiously diverse than any previous time. Although some studies indicate that reli...