It’s the central question of the Gospel for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time. It’s the central question of the Gospel, period. If you look at the Gospel of Mark, it’s right there in Chapter 8, smack ...

Saint Teresa of Ávila, one of the greatest of Christian mystics, understood clearly that the height of mystical spirituality, at least for Christians, must be grounded in the humble humanity of Jesus ...

Jesus asked his audiences many questions. What if we stop with Jesus’ questions and let them interrogate us? What if we ponder and pray over Jesus’ questions? Which is exactly what Matthew Croasmun ...

Growing up in the evangelical Church, I was taught that Jesus provided the answers to all of life’s questions. But, it turns out that Jesus provided hardly any answers. In fact, in the Bible, Jesus ...

I stood in front of the framed picture in the center of the mall, my husband’s left shoulder brushing against my right, our twelve-year-old daughter standing at my left. “And you can’t see it?” he ...

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I grew up in the era of evangelistic T-shirts. I was too shy to wear any myself, but I had friends who did. “WWJD?” “Cross-trained.” “Made to worship.” “Be still and know.” One of the T-shirt slogans ...

There are, if you want to be super simplistic about it, maybe only two types of questions that we ask each other. The first type of question is based on the need for information. It is asked in order ...

One of the quiet assumptions shaping much of modern Christian theology is that Israel has been spiritually eclipsed. The Church, we are told, sometimes subtly, sometimes explicitly, has replaced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned ...