Who could forget this prayer? If this isn’t the opposite of The Lord’s Prayer, I don’t what is.
Racing legend Ricky Bobby gathers his family—plus his father-in-law and best friend, Carl—around a table and says grace for the food. “Dear Lord Baby Jesus,” he begins, “or as our brothers to the south call you, Hey-Zeus, we [...]

I’ve been teaching Luke-Acts for four years now at Rochester College. The first three years I co-taught with my good friend (twice my boss–he’s an elder at Rochester Church and V.P. of Academics at RC) John Barton. His missionary/global experience was a great match for my pastoral/local interests. To say it plain: we made a [...]

Without doing research, I’m wondering if any of you can guess the historical and theological significance of this piece of graffiti from the ancient world? Hint: it is a political and religious drawing.

This is from Tony Hendra’s memoir, Father Joe (4).
“Saint” does not mean merely dedication, or selflessness, or generosity, though it subsumes all those. Nor does it mean the apogee of religious devotion, though it can subsume that too–sometimes. There are many pious people who believe themselves to be saints who are not, and many people [...]

I find myself resting in this commentary by James Francis and his depiction of Jesus as the successful “nobody.”

“Jesus was born in an obscure village. . . .He never wrote a book. He never held an office. . . . [Yet] all the armies that have ever marched, all the navies that were ever built, [...]

In, Brian D. McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy, written a few years back, he sketches the “seven different depictions of Jesus in his faith journey.” On page 64, he includes this summary:
1. Conservative Protestant: The human race is guilty of sin therefore Jesus’ death pays the full penalty for human sin.
2. Pentecostal: The human [...]