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As fires rage in Los Angeles, I've been praying disaster prayers with rare authenticity.

Jesus, the penniless Messiah, is our sustenance.

Christ's resurrection determines the meaning of Easter. But what is the significance of that resurrection?

The multitude of angels wasn't a choir. It was an army.

What are we (Advent) waiting for?

A healthy work ethic requires a healthy rest ethic. But what exactly is rest, and what makes it good?

Five problematic New Testament passages tell slaves to obey masters but also contain surprising glimmers of justice.

Bible readers rightly worry over Paul's view of slavery. However, the emancipatory passages in his writings complicate the story.

What circumstance gave rise to the New Testament letter to Philemon? Was Onesimus a fugitive slave? Find answers here.

Jesus's ministry of liberation is critical context for interpreting five problem passages on slavery in the New Testament.

In recent posts (e.g., here and here), I’ve been writing about the authorship of the Gospels, and the degree to which Gospel content may...

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what, exactly, the message of the gospel is. Of course, the term ‘gospel’ means “good news.” The puzzle...

Do the four Gospels of the New Testament accurately represent the historical ministry of Jesus? The case that they do would seem more...

According to the traditional view, the four Gospels in the New Testament—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (the “canonical” Gospels)—were...

In Chapter 3 of How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman begins with a story from his days as a student at Moody Bible Institute in the 1970s....

Why did Paul send Onesimus back to Philemon? He didn't support slavery. Instead, he wanted Onesimus freed and the two brothers reconciled.

Like the rest of the New Testament, the Lord’s Prayer was originally written in Koine Greek (though Jesus likely spoke it in Aramaic)....

The book of Proverbs tells us, “Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice” (1:20). She cries out that people...

Today I begin a series of posts on Thomas Aquinas’s view of the virtues. Most of my focus in this series will be on what are often called...

At the beginning of last school year my daughter made a friend who has had an especially hard childhood. As the year wore on, she learned...