“What does it mean to be a prophet?” This is the challenge preachers must wrestle with and present to their congregations over and over, says Luke Timothy Johnson, a renowned Scripture scholar, ...

Every year, we suddenly realize that the season of Lent is just around the corner and every year, we sincerely promise: "This year I'm going to do better." In the past, our usual efforts at prayer, ...

The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to convey a ...

If the Gospel of Luke were performed as musical theater, the melodies accompanying the Emmaus journey would sound hauntingly familiar because they would reprise the entire Gospel. We would hear the ...