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The unfaithful shepherd sniffs out and stirs up fear, fragmenting communities.

Books, printed pages, lines of calligraphy, and single letters are raw materials for Massachusetts artist Sandra Bowden. Her fascination with the visual aspects of language comes out of her experience as an artist growing up in a conservative Protestant faith community where words took primacy over images and was deepened by her study of biblical Hebrew and the Dead Sea Scrolls. This collagraph print, created from a plate with textured materials on the surface, includes passages from two foundational Hebrew and Christian “in the beginning” narratives about the origins of the universe.

This Reformation Day, I'm preaching the Gospel text from the lectionary.

Jesus’ hearers are well-acquainted with calamity and crisis.

The poetry of Genesis 1 invites us into a sort of palliative care for the earth.

Resurrection is where God is—across generations, across circumstances.

Matthew 5

Recent books that are shaping discussions in New Testament studies

Jesus mourns a human existence unconcerned with the needs of the whole.

How early Christians thought about bodies and how we do