The Christian Century

John is thinking about Jesus arriving as an adult, not a baby.

In the midst of anxiety, it can sound like an attractive option for a swift end to come.

We may see him as fully human. Scripture resounds with his cosmic nature.

At this point we’re all into whatever is our way of being together as endemic church.

What do you want Jesus to do or say?

There’s a hard truth about existence in 2 Thessalonians 1 that social science bears out.

It is so tender that God would say God owes us one.

Why read the Bible?

There is nothing wrong with the nine. There is something extraordinary about the one.

Jesus doesn’t seem to think so.

The rich man’s approach to Lazarus could have been different.

The inability to make sense of the parable of the unjust manager allows us to experience confusion similar to those first students of Jesus.

Jeremiah’s ministry bleeds into his humanity.

One form of ancient instruction was paraenesis, which lists various rules without a clear outline or progression of thought.

For Luke, sickness is the devil’s work, which Jesus came to combat.