John

How might the church’s history have been different if foot washing had caught on more widely?

This is a fearful time, especially for those who are being targeted by some of the currents of our cultural wars.

There is no greater evidence of how much Letha Dawson Scanzoni valued relationships than her letters.

“If you really want to live you’ve gotta die” is a puzzle that could leave you off kilter your whole life long.

What has always interested me about the John 3:16 signs is the singular focus.

When John 3 came up I used to preach on the dangers of fixating on one verse. Now I cringe at that memory.

Churches often live in an uneasy relationship with their property.

Christians have an opportunity to eschew euphemisms and talk honestly about mortality.

Christians have an opportunity to eschew euphemisms and talk honestly about mortality.

Whatever Jesus is attacking, it isn’t the practices of the people coming to the temple to worship.

Jesus’ word of insight to Nathanael seems a lot like a carnival grift.

John the Baptist had no chance at being ordinary—but he takes his outlier status to new heights all on his own.

Vida Dutton Scudder, an early 20th-century radical, points Christians to solidarity and martyrdom.

In the wilderness, trying to find joy can be like trying to make a fire with wet matches.

His followers realized there was no quick exit from the discomfort of his words.

“If John’s christological confessor is also the first person the risen Jesus appears to,” says biblical scholar Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, “that could make her a competitor to Peter’s authority.”

“If John’s christological confessor is also the first person the risen Jesus appears to,” says biblical scholar Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, “that could make her a competitor to Peter’s authority.”