Rachel Held Evans talks to us this week about her new book, “Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again.”
Scripture
Posted inFaith, The Word
If we listen to the voice of the Spirit, God will open our eyes.
The feeling Jesus experiences is similar to that of a mother responding to an infant’s hunger or to her child’s cry.
Posted inFaith, The Word
With Christ, you can liberate others from “unclean spirits.”
We recognize unclean spirits today not through the illnesses they cause, but through the minds they enrapture.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: How reading the bible as storybook can change the way we live
Inspired represents Held Evans’s attempt to return not to the “handbook” Bible of her adolescence but to the “storybook” Bible of her childhood.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
To prevent suicides we need more community, not less.
We must learn again that communities exist to create, sustain and protect life.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Would Jesus eat with Sarah Sanders?
The way Jesus used table fellowship in the Gospels was morally transformative—but by inclusion, not by exclusion.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What the prodigal son can teach us about mindfulness
How can we integrate the lesson from this popular parable into our contemplative prayer lives?
Posted inEspañol, La Palabra
Con el testamento hecho
Juan el Bautista hizo de su vida pública un “testamento ambulante”.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Father James Martin: Blindly following the law is not ‘biblical.’
The Bible should not be used to justify sin.
Posted inEspañol, La Palabra
Anidar a su sombra
¿Se ha fijado que, aunque la predicación del Reino fue el eje central del mensaje de Jesucristo, la palabra no aparece en el Credo?