As the theologian Gerhard Lohfink puts it in Jesus of Nazareth, “In the East one praises someone by praising his or her mother and abuses someone by slandering her or his mother.” (The same is true ...

By Dunford Cole After church, people often stop and say, “Preacher, that was a good sermon!” I enjoy hearing that because it ...

“After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, ‘Come up here, and I will show you what must take place ...