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 ...

Well acquainted with suffering, Guthrie offers Jesus’ words of comfort in her most recent work. I hope this book is not a “grief” book. It speaks to people who are grieving, but I hope people see it ...

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 ...

We're very much aware, I'm sure, that the season of Advent is a time of waiting. It's a time when we're preparing, in a special way, for the coming of Jesus. We do that looking for Jesus to come in ...

One of the odder moments of Pope Francis’ recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land was an exchange with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The subject was what language Jesus spoke. According to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In preparation for Good Friday's Way of the Cross: A Walk for Justice, I offer this reflection on Station VIII, Jesus speaks to the weeping women: The news out of Jerusalem today is not good. And the ...