The Life of the Land: A Cautionary Tale

By Mark Clavier Once upon a time… …there was a palace of incomparable splendor, more resplendent than any palace that had been seen before. In the palace lived all the kingdom’s nobility: a prosperous peo... Read More...

Parables, Power, and Perseverance

Mark 4:1-6:29 By Jonathan Turtle In chapters four through six of Mark’s Gospel, the reader is introduced to the purpose of Christ’s parables, the nature of Christ’s power, and the perseverance required of C... Read More...

Reconsidering the Parables of a “Marginal Jew”

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables By John P. Meier  Yale University Press xiii + 441 pp $65  Review by Garwood P. Anderson When contemporary theologians and “churchmen” disparage the “... Read More...

Who is my neighbor?

The point of the parable is that the person who shows mercy to me is my neighbor.