I've been defriended twice on Facebook since joining last fall. Both times over Jesus - more or less. The first defriending came as no surprise, except that it was my first. The first is always a ...

One of my favorite stories in the Gospels is about a storm. Jesus had just finished feeding thousands of people near the Sea of Galilee by multiplying five loaves of bread and two fish. He told his ...

It’s the central question of the Gospel for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time. It’s the central question of the Gospel, period. If you look at the Gospel of Mark, it’s right there in Chapter 8, smack ...

Churches are taking shortcuts with Jesus, when they should be taking the road less traveled. Mainstream Christianity, and their conservative evangelical brethren, have lost a grip on the language and ...

Yes, Bernie Sanders is Jewish. But he has shown about as much devotion to organized religion as he has to the political establishment. In the unfolding drama of the battle for the White House, he is ...

Greetings, everyone. Easter weekend is here and billions of Christians from around the world are taking time to reflect on the death and to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Recently, a friend of ...

(UNDATED) I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen such an explosion of public interest in Jesus _ from a variety of angles old and new (some would say odd). Whether this fascination simply means that Dan Brown ...

Our neighbor George recently attended an Advent/Christmas workshop sponsored by a local congregation. He said it was interesting because the first thing they discussed was “what does the term ...

Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After going to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to pray at the 11th and 12th ...

If you’ve never seen Olympic athletes compete in gymnastics, here’s the next best thing: watching preachers twist and turn around the words of Jesus to make it sound like the poor carpenter’s son ...