Jesus called his followers to be fishers of men. We can understand this better if we consider what it takes to be a fisher of fish.

“Wheat and Weeds” is the parable Christ gave us to bite down on when we feel that we do not belong. Christ and his compassion have not abandoned us.

We listen to the sacred Scriptures week after week, year after year. Why does it take a diagnosis, a divorce, a death, a setback or a struggle for us to hear them?

Our fidelity to Christ and his body the church should have less to do with becoming an aggrieved church of fire damage than becoming a compassionate church of kinship with the broken.

Though liberation is often won through violence, love can never conquer through compulsion. Love must always be meek.

Two recently published books from Oxford University Press address the variegated and multifaced character of sin in the New Testament.