Valentine’s Day Treat: Love, from Odes of Solomon
Throughout the Odes of Solomon, the writer praises the source of love that wells up and overflows into love for everything and everyone.
The Power of Self-Control in Early Christian Community
Dr. Deborah Saxon, teacher of religion at Butler University in Indianapolis, explains in this interview why the practice of self-control was so important to early Jesus followers.
Finding God in the Secret Revelation of John
This was the God I learned in Jesus. Someone in the second century knew something very important about this God that encourages me even now.
It Takes Courage to Cross Religious Boundaries
We simply relate to God and God’s role on earth differently, even though we read the same scriptures and worship what we think of as the same God.
The Big Questions about Jesus, God, Christians, and the Rest of Us
These ancient books and gospels, written by people who wanted to understand and follow Jesus after he was gone, fill in many of the gaps from what we find in the New Testament writings and church teachings.