The people who wrote the New Testament (NT) were not, in their day, like those of us living today. They lived and wrote in the latter half o...

I was chatting with a friend about someone I knew who was at the extremity of life and described him/her as a person of devout religious fai...

In a recent article, published shortly after his death, Roy Hoover 1 linked (human) insight and (divine) revelation: What Paul regarded as ...

Parables are not straight forward. They only tell you imprecise stories. At times, a parable is simply ambiguous, always polyvalent, or appe...

The earliest references to the ekklēsia , an expression usually translated as "church," are better thought of as "gatherings,...