Life, for all its sweetness and wonder, still strikes us with unbearable
pain from time to time. Tragedies that are so far out of the normal order of
…
The Gospel of John is dramatically different from the gospels of Mark,
Matthew and Luke. It begins by identifying Jesus with the “Word of God”
spoken in creation. …
While on a lecture tour of Europe this winter, we had one stop in
Grebenstein, Germany, that was unique in many ways. No lecture, press
conference or even …
During the early winter of this year, my wife and I went to
Scandinavia for 16 lectures, 5 press interviews and extensive conversations.
I returned with a deeper sense of …
The year 2006 began with an unresolved war in Iraq. It ended with that war
not just unresolved, but obviously deteriorating into the unmanageable chaos
of civil war and tribal …
This year I watched Christmas dawn in Europe. It provided me
with new insights into this holy day and an understanding of the state of
Christianity on the …
If I were to mention the name of Frederik Herman Kaan, I doubt
if the faces of more than one or two of my readers would reveal even a
…
In this continuing examination of the miracle stories found in
the gospels, I turn this week to the second “sight to the blind” narrative
in Mark (10: 46-52), the …
In the fourth installment of my fall series on the miracles of the New Testament, I suggested that the healing miracles attributed to Jesus in the gospels might have …
Marcus Borg did it. John Dominic Crossan did it. The clear
implication of the person issuing this invitation was that I should do it
too. He wanted me to …