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Ultimately, the reign of God is God’s government set up in the human heart.

What if we put children at the center of our policies and decisions?

He had been a stranger,
so took in strangers,
today three, and
in the heat of the day.
He interrupts my spinning
wool for his new cloak,
orders me to make a fire,
use my best meal
to make cakes
for heaven’s sake,
tells the servant boy
to slaughter that calf
I’ve had my eye on.
Of course I listened
behind our tent’s flap.
How else do we women
learn anything important?
How peculiar of them
to speak of a son
to such as we are,
such as I am who

Bruce Chilton moves Herod the Great and Herod Antipas from backdrop to center stage.

The prophet Isaiah sings an eschatological melody.

Five new books about Luke and Acts

The story of two grieving and economically insecure women is the hinge of the entire covenant history.