The gospel read for Trinity 4 in Year A of Matt 10.40–42 is perhaps the strangest choice in the whole lectionary—at only ...

On Friday, we walked to Calvary with Hans Küng as our guide on the passion and death of Jesus, his reflections in On Being a Christian pointing us to the critical, yet often scuttled, fact: Jesus died ...

As we listen to today's gospel lesson, we might be excused if we think, 'Those disciples had to be very dense. They just could not understand what Jesus was telling them.' This is not the first time ...

and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.” I won’t embarrass the priest who underlined this point to great effect during ...

DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I know Jesus had 12 disciples around Him when He was on earth, but what happened to them later on? I don't remember reading anything in the Bible about how they died, but maybe I just ...

Does he really mean that, or are we misunderstanding this final effort in his missionary discourse as he urges the disciples ...

When you think of Jesus’ disciples, who comes to mind? Impulsive Peter and doubting Thomas? Surely. James and John, the Zebedee boys? Of course. Mary Magdalene and some of the other women mentioned in ...