According to Josephus, Herod Antipas desperately wanted to be called “king.”
Season after Pentecost | 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
Amos 7:7-15 (Psalm 85:8-13); Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:14-29 | Semi-continuous first reading: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 (Psalm 24)
Put your ear to the ground. You will not detect a single note of good news in the story of Herod, Herodias, and John.
What makes a family?
We tend to think biology matters, and matters very much—except when we don’t.
The Dakota Access pipeline poses a threat to indigenous people. Their resistance poses tough questions for all of us.
2 Samuel by Robert Barron
Robert Barron’s grasp of the complex development of David’s character in 2 Samuel is unsurpassed. And his references to history and literature are more than adornment.
Christians didn’t baptize Aldo Leopold’s land ethic after the fact. They got there years before his work.