In 2000 David Buttrick began a project that focused on the language of Jesus and the ways in which attention to Jesus’ language can inform and shape preaching. Speaking Conflict is the final volume in ...

It took Aramaic speakers 1,500 years to agree on Christology, now their main debate is over Assyrian identity. Could Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq encourage unity? Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Iraq ...

How can we say thank you Lord for all you have done for us? Simply, say "thank you Father and Lord Jesus." We have homes up there in the wide yonder and an eternity with God. Can we ask God to keep us ...

Some words take on expanded meanings over time. It wasn’t long ago, for example, that only birds tweeted. Other words develop narrower meanings. Consider the word business, for example, which today ...

She should be stoned to death, her accusers say. In John 8:2-12, Jesus' opponents bring to him a woman they claim was caught in adultery, cite legal justification for executing adulterers, and ask ...

Editor’s note: Columns such as this are solely the opinion of the author. Send comments on this column to [email protected]. I was just shy of my third birthday when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot.

There are many forms and expressions of prayer. The human heart is diverse and the ways in which it approaches and speaks to God is also diverse. The variations of prayer show us the great mystery ...

It’s been some time ago but I heard one of the most powerful sayings a friend of mine used to say often right before he was about to be installed as the new pastor of his own church. “When Satan ...

Probably no film in history has been written about as much before its public debut as Mel Gibson’s new movie about the last days of Jesus. Many of the critics and scholars who have seen it screened in ...