Rose Marie Berger The 'gospel' of Judas and The Da Vinci Code make Christianity unrecognizable. It’s ...

Glen H. Stassen The Sermon on the Mount is one of the gems of the New Testament, comprised as it is of the spare beauty of the Beatitudes ...

James Ferguson Bring the Biblical Garden by DuneCraft into your home and have weeding chores just like Jesus! ...

Steve Thorngate I was visiting a church at which pentecostal practices were gaining traction, bringing no small controversy with them. ...

Jeshua Erickson Bob Ekblad has been reading the Bible with people who live on the margins—Chicano gang members, prison inmates, and undocu ...

Jim Forest I wonder if there are not many Sojourners readers who were dismayed with Brian McLaren’s essay in the March 2006 issue (“Found ...

Cathy C. Campbell “Give us this day our daily bread.” The simplicity of the prayer that Jesus gave us can distract us from its wisdom and ...

David Rensberger Brian McLaren’s article “Found in Translation” offers some delightfully thought-provoking new images for God’s way and ou ...

(circa 515 BCE) and the time of Nehemiah (circa 444 BCE). There were many issues facing those trying ...

Rose Marie Berger •Dish it Up. The employees of Windows on the World restaurant, which was destroyed in the Sept. ...

James Ferguson Rite Lite Ltd., purveyor of “quality Judaica since 1949,” is helping children get comfortable with the mystery of a creator God who destroys. How? Rite Lite offers ...

Lindsay Moseley Having witnessed the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, it may be hard to imagine anything comforting about a whi ...

James Ferguson In these high-tech days, anyone could just copy the Bible onto any old USB memory stick, but that would be wrong wouldn’t ...

Robert Roth In Kashmir, Niger, Honduras, and parts of every U.S. city, the situation is urgent. Thankfully, so is God’s persistent love. ...

Robert Roth Whenever you helped the needy - or ignored the poor - Jesus said, "you did it to me." ...

Ryan Beiler Dim visions of a redeemed military It only took a few days of international critic ...

Paula Gooder The story of the Bible is one of increasing inclusion. In our current idiom, faith has become ...

Nancy M. Malone A spirituality of reading. I suspect that lots of people who love reading have ...

Jason Byassee Three pop theology books to leave behind. Jesus wants you to be much happier tha ...

Michaela Bruzzese "We must re-vision Christian faith as a combative, argumentative, and emancipatory" practice that seeks " ...

Michaela Bruzzese We are reminded that the commitment to the gospel is an absolute one. Reflections on the revised common lectionary, Cycl ...

Kari Jo Verhulst When Jesus met the Samaritan woman, he was talking to us. When we were children, my sister a ...

Michaela Bruzzese Our churches have attempted to corner the market on grace, to act as society's sole dispensers of salvation. ...

Michaela Bruzzese Only when we know ourselves as broken yet fiercely loved can we share the gift of new life. ...

Michaela Bruzzese We commit to proclaiming and living the good news, even when doing so seems absurd. Martin B ...

Julie Polter Artist Barry Moser's new illustrated Bible shows that the people of scripture---and books themselves---are very much ali ...

Michael Joseph Brown People in the ancient world were very careful about how they approached their gods. Peopl ...

Jonathon Keats Pocket Canons are the most radical approach to the Bible since Gutenberg. Or at least Ginsberg. ...

Arthur Waskow Honorable work and restful renewal are both aspects of responsibility. Our religious traditions ...

Duane Shank True or false: The Bible has no place in school. 1) True or false: Given a homework assignment to ...

Ched Myers Reading the Bible in the new millennium. I will tell you something about stories... They aren&# ...

Katrina Poetker Issues of honor and shame permeate Paul's letters. The Corinthian letters open a tinted ...

William O'Brien Mark's gospel offers an antidote to domesticated, superficial Christianity. Christ ...

Ronald J. Sider Generous Christians and other people of good will can end the scandal of poverty. But will we? ...

Ched Myers The poor are always with us. The questions is what we do about it. The 1996 dismantling of the welf ...

Perry Yoder Beginnings and endings are important. Beginnings and endings are important. We are familiar with t ...

Arthur Waskow From almost the beginning to the very end of the Book of Genesis, one theme whirls through many variations: war and peace be ...

A. Katherine Grieb The book that later church writers named The Acts of the Apostles might just as well have been described as Luke's ...

Wes Howard-Brook It's all too easy to make fun of the extreme examples of prophecy belief that we encounter on bumper stickers and be ...

Robert Jewett A biblical reflection on public lies. President Clinton’s sordid behavior in the Lewinsky scanda ...

Bill Wylie-Kellermann Why the church and the labor movement belong together. Biblically, theologically, ethi ...

Perry Bush For a century and a half, workers and church people have organized together. "Religion," ...

Ched Myers The biblical vision of Sabbath economics. The Hebrew Bible's vision of Sabbath economics cont ...

Jim Rice Genuine faith is never a private matter, something hidden away in one’s mind and spirit. Genuine fait ...

Joyce Hollyday The parallel stories of biblical and contemporary women. Following are two meditations from ...

Joyce Hollyday We started at the beginning, with Eve. We started at the beginning, with Eve. As the music of ...