Can You See God?
It’s God’s love for us that gives us the understanding of God, so that we, too, can see and talk with God. This is no more complicated than claiming “I see what you mean!”
Healing in Antiquity: Medicine, Magic, Ritual, Demons, and Gnosis
There's so much more out there in early Christianity, I would like to see the movement beyond the Bible read as important early Christian texts because it's all part of a common discourse in the ancient world. An interview with Dr. Andrew Crislip
Jesus’s Words on Quieting the Anxiety and Fear Within
Jesus did have things to say to people who felt oppressed by unjust forms of power. First, anger can’t win. Second, people are not to be feared, because they are not the real enemies.
Inconsistencies in the Gospel of John
The tradition of the Fourth Gospel sought to preserve and pass on a unique insight about Jesus. The extensive father/son language, unique to the Fourth Gospel, is at the center of this insight.
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.