Mark 8
We begin with another loaves-and-fishes story. It's similar to the one in Mark 6, but this time Jesus provides a...

Batter my heart, three-person'd God!
When I blogged Mark 7 I purposely hadn't looked at GG's posts on it yet. He points out some further...

Mark 7
This is a very vexing chapter, if you're trying to figure the relationship between Jesus and the God of the...

Naked is a state of mind
The other day I was talking to my mother about the subject of her dissertation, adolescents' reading. One point she...

Tongues of flame
Gossip is one sin that I never gave much thought to before. I was never especially attracted to it --...

The cold became a flu...
... and I'm still recovering from it, but I'm feeling a lot more alive. (Thanks for asking, Allen.) One plan...

Please stand by
Have come down with a nasty cold, hence my rude disappearance. I will be back once my brain has returned...

Carrot and stick
Jennifer, in a post she has now taken down, linked back to this lecture on abortion by Stanley Hauerwas. I...

Stuff I didn't realize was controversial
Every time my church does communion, the pastor delivers a recap of the Last Supper. When he gets to the...

Atonement and victory
Peter writes that the Passion movie reminds him of the discussion he had with me about a year ago about...

Think outside the box!
Although I've been writing about the theology of sex a lot lately, I haven't commented on the whole gay-marriage debate...

Hooray for Hollywood
Speaking of That Movie, in this week's New Yorker Steve Martin imagines what the studio script notes looked like: Dear...

Just wondering...
Ever since I did that post about Christ descending into hell I've had visitors now and then who were Googling...

Upon whose authority
Sorry I kind of blew up in the previous thread. As you might have surmised, I have personal issues connected...