temptation

On Damn, the hip-hop artist draws connections between guns, gangs, Wall Street corruption, and the 2016 election. It's a bold indictment of collective sin.

Who tests Abraham, or Jacob, or Jesus—and why?

Matthew 4:1–11

There are many people with whom I have not had an affair. Billions. There is also one man in particular.

I have lived in the U.S. for nearly three years now, and there is so much to love: the beauty and the grandeur of the landscape, the welcome and hospitality I’ve found in one city after another, and so many new friends.

But there is one thing I don’t love so much.

If temptation were all about blatant wrongdoing, it would be far easier to avoid.

David Petraeus's failings aren't the same as his biblical namesake's. No one went to die so he could bed Paula Broadwell. Still, we expected more.

In an account in which only Satan, wild animals, and angels are with Jesus, the reader is also present.