"In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’ ...

The resurrection is an event addressed to hope and love, and only in that way can it be a challenge to agnosticism or the denial of God. When Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mount Everest with Tenzin ...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means that Jesus says, “My yoke is easy and my burden light.” Although today’s readings do not include that line, they resonate with it: The first reading ...

John Dickson is Founding Scholar of the Centre for Public Christianity, and visiting lecturer in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. When Sir Edmund ...

The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...

I made a new friend recently: Dr. Kari Konkola. He has a doctoral degree in history and has spent a long time examining what are called Confessors' Manuals, which are medieval Latin texts by Christian ...

The Bible is, as Wilson’s title has it, the book of the people. We build our meanings together. By Frank Cottrell-Boyce The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible A N Wilson Atlantic Books, 213pp, ...