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.

Jesus did not speak of great prophets, who would follow him. No, he told us to expect humble souls, “little ones,” people we might not even notice if we do not keep our eyes open and our hearts receptive.