In "The Gospel of Peace," the Rev. John Dear embarks on a kind of spiritual experiment: interpreting the three synoptic ...

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. My goal in this article is to encourage ...

I am one who claims not only to believe in Jesus Christ. I furthermore strive to follow Jesus. (There is a difference between ...

Peter (Simon) is one of the most interesting New Testament characters. He had many good moments but also made some of the ...

I took my usual seat in Sunday school. The teacher had recently begun a series on the Gospel of John. “Turn to chapter two,” ...

The Synoptic Gospels tell of Jesus preaching in the synagogue of his native Nazareth where people first speak highly of him but later reject him for hurting their pride as God’s chosen by mentioning ...

The gospel lectionary reading for the First Sunday of Epiphany/the Baptism of Christ in this Year C is Luke 3.15–17, 21–22. We have recently been exploring Luke 3 during Advent, having read the first ...

Longtime readers of the New York Times know that opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof can be prone to outlandish claims. Years ago he promoted the amusing idea that the biblical Jesus favored big ...

We can mark the Epiphany with Matthew 2.1-12 ... because it is a chunk of theology stuck on the front of a book that otherwise looks like a story. The closest parallels to it in the Synoptic Gospels ...

Says Gibson: “It’s about Mark letting his dark side out in between running his empire and eating lunch with his kids. He is a multi-dimensional performer who has managed to find the essence of ...

Mark Wahlberg plays an unhinged, balding hitman masquerading as a chatty helicopter pilot in a new trailer for Mel Gibson’s upcoming thriller, Flight Risk. The film also stars Michelle Dockery ...

Family, friends and viewers are saying goodbye to Virginia news anchor Mark Spain. Just three weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the ABC-affiliated WSET anchor died Dec.