As we search for meaning in the “blessings,” we must let them transform us. The yellowing notebook for my college philosophy of religion class contains this plaintive inscription: Sunday school was ...

I once heard a story that used to make me laugh. "Computers are so powerful that pretty soon the country will be run by one computer, one man, and a dog," the teller says. "Really?" says the hearer.

When I was a graduate student at Duke, my professors David Steinmetz and Roland Murphy were blazing a new trail into the history of the interpretation of scripture, hacking away at the conceit that ...

In fact, a good deal of the Bible can easily be dismissed as foreign to the modern world. So much of every book of the Bible is in need of interpretation in a world of digital icons and multiple ...

Father Jacques Philippe has authored yet another insightful book on faith and the interior life — this time addressing the mystery of the beatitudes. The Eight Doors of the Kingdom: Meditations on the ...

A few years ago my friend, Pastor Adam Magnuson, brought these words to life with his church: Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take ...