The first part of the parable draws attention to the sower and to the seed, a reality in rural Palestine familiar to Jesus’ original audience composed mostly of peasant farmers. If the sower ...

In today’s Gospel reading from Mark, Jesus tasks the apostles with beginning their ministry. This is the first instance of ...

It is winter, and especially last week when the Polar Vortex came, there is more time spent inside, offering the opportunity for extra reading, for those not already inclined. For the last 20 years or ...

Vice President JD Vance is getting schooled by theologians over his inverted theology expressed in a Jan. 29 interview on Fox ...

It started when VP J.D. Vance told Fox News, “You love your family, and then you love your neighbour, and then you love your ...

When Jesus gave that command, he then described it in the famous parable of the Good Samaritan. Last year I had the opportunity to see part of the Jericho road which Jesus often walked and where the ...

Vice President JD Vance often puts a Christian spin on the America First idea that undergirds much of MAGA, Trumpism, and the ambitions of the new Trump administration. Speaking this week on Fox News ...

Up in an Upside-Down World,” considering the power of parables as a teaching method by Jesus for his followers. Parables spoke a reality ...

Even with the angry crowd and His disciples leaving Him, Jesus did not change His teaching nor say that He was merely speaking figuratively or in parables. His response to the Apostles was ...

The parable of the good Samaritan ends differently without the innkeeper. Arguably, without the innkeeper, the parable falls apart and the good deed falls short. The Samaritan, after all, is no ...

Vice President Vance, and the policies he is defending, does not start with grace and gratitude. He is not just ethically ...

I will be doubling down on storytelling. It cannot be overemphasised how much stories shape our understanding of events.