Alabama’s legislature passed the meanest anti-immigration law in the nation. I wrote a letter protesting the spiteful law. An immigration activist asked, “But what are you going to do? Your letter...

Have you ever tried to be humble? A person who brags about having achieved humility probably hasn’t. Maybe that’s why Jesus doesn’t say to his disciples in his criticism of religious...

I teach a seminary course on “Ordained Leadership.” Among my maxims for aspiring church leaders: “Leadership is necessary for any organization that needs to move from maintenance to vitality.” “Leaders ask...

John gives us a vision of the triumph of God’s will for humankind. What is our end, the destination toward which we are headed? Revelation sings of a well-populated, joyfully crowded...

Halloween,” the psychologist explained, “is a creative way of dealing with our deepest fears by putting on a scary mask, a costume, and making fun of our fear that something horrible...

I will be with you as I was with Moses,” God says to Moses’ successor, Joshua. The Exodus from Egypt is ending. But now Israel faces the challenge of living in...

In one of their last attempts to defeat Jesus in the marketplace, the Pharisees get together to challenge him with a controversial question that will divide his followers and weaken his...

It’s not a good idea to argue with Jesus. Throughout the Gospels, many people question and challenge Jesus. Leaders of his day felt threatened by what they perceived as unorthodox teachings...

Paul approaches every group with a variety of arguments, believing that if one doesn’t work he will try another. Paul reminds the Thessalonians of his experience and of their own. He...

This may be the oldest letter in the New Testament, written before the Gospels and yet long enough after the death and resurrection of Jesus that people are starting to doubt...