They cannot say the words “in the original Greek” without groaning, apologizing, adding layers of irony to the phrase. They ...

Look here,” he showed me, “all these buds. I’ll be cutting off what could be flowers.”It was January in western Pennsylvania, windy, cold with freezing temperatures prepared to stay.   But the man who ...

A group representing the leaders of the United States’s largest Jewish organizations has written a letter to Pope Francis ...

“This is not a Bible just for Mennonites,” says Anabaptism at 500 project director John Roth.

The women who would be war heroes For many Americans, the tears never stopped. While the 1973 Paris Peace Accords stilled the ...

After his 1980 defeat, Carter devoted himself to the causes of a progressive evangelicalism that has all but disappeared from ...

Sometimes the harm caused by breaking a promise is less than the harm caused by keeping it.

Cobb envisioned theology as a force for transformation. He believed theology was not about abstract speculation or ...

David Livingstone explores the dubious history of overclaiming or distorting the role of climate.

Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be ...

Early the next morning we walk the ruins of the Temple. Mortals win the kind of eternity for which their lives prepare them, I told Jesus, quoting, I think, Socrates. Someone once said to me, But ...

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