How To Hate Your Family By Clinton Wilson Whether we are speaking of our families, or any relationships in which we find ourselves, we must learn to hate them in the right way, so we don’t learn to hate them — or they don’t learn t... Read More...
Jacob’s Ladder for Christians: A Meditation Upon the Seven Sacraments By Jean McCurdy Meade The founders of the monastic movements of the Middle Ages often used the metaphor of a monastery or convent as an enclosure from the world in which God could reveal a ladder to and from... Read More...
God or Wealth? By Bryan Owen "When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.” Those words are attributed to John Wesley, the 18th-century Anglican priest and founder of Methodism. And ther... Read More...
The Unsettling God of Abraham By Tyler Been "'God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob,’ not of philosophers and scholars.” After Blaise Pascal’s death, a piece of parchment with these words was found sewn into his clothing. It is now ... Read More...
A Survey of Historic Romans Commentaries By John Mason Lock While it’s not the earliest nor the longest book in the New Testament, there is a strong case to be made that Paul’s Letter to the Romans is the most important document in the New Testamen... Read More...
Defamiliarizing Biblical Narrative: Or, On Keeping Scripture Weird By Joseph L. Mangina The etymology of the word weird is, if not actually weird, then at least complicated and interesting. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it started out life as a noun, meaning “... Read More...
A Centurion Named Julius By Jean McCurdy Meade Many Christians, including those who are very familiar with the New Testament, might say, “Who is Julius?” We know about some Roman centurions. Cornelius, the centurion whom Peter was c... Read More...
Powerless Christianity By Eugene R. Schlesinger I gave my back to those who struck me and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting. —Isaiah 50:6 Let the same mind be ... Read More...
