Read our latest issue or browse back issues. The woman in the Sadducees’ story faces a different but related crisis. While not property like enslaved women, she remains trapped within systems that ...

The Ala is Akure people’s totem. It is formidable in their estimation. Its huge stature is such that a poetry of their pedigree is incomplete without it juggling their memories that, in a single ...

Last of two parts Kudos to newly minted spokesperson Polo Martinez of the Department of Justice (DOJ). While others were ...

An event called "Fields of Faith" was held recently at the Ozark High School football stadium. The mother of a friend of Stella's texted me about it last week, glad it was happening. "We haven't had ...

God is not interested in outward conformity alone without real salvation, transformation and the work of grace perfected in ...

The Sunday's lectionary reading for the Third before Advent in Year C is Luke 20.27–38. Once more, the lectionary makes an odd choice; it would be more natural to read on to verse 40 and complete the ...

The Gospel of Luke is the first volume of Luke-Acts, which was composed by "Luke the beloved physician," a traveling companion of St. Paul (Col 4:14). The Gentile St. Luke wrote his work for ...

This is the introduction from noted scholar Hershel Shanks' book (Random House April 1998), an illuminating and readable background summary on the scrolls. Introduction Half a century has now passed ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ravines, ...