As we have reached Palm Sunday I wanted to provide links to previous writings here on The Good Word blog and one found at the Bible Junkies blog Please also go The Word to find the most recent columns for Palm Sunday and Easter The Palm Sunday post is a reflection on how quickly our attention can

One of the most difficult things for Western Christians to grasp is the reality of the miraculous which infuses the whole of the New Testament We labor more than we know under the assumptions of a world that is a closed empirical system from which God is absent Rudolf Bultmann the great 20th-

In the first installment I looked at the ldquo Judases rdquo and ldquo Jameses rdquo in the New Testament There seems only one good option for whom the Judas Jude to whom this letter is attributed could be the Judas Jude who is the brother of Jacob James and Jesus nbsp Modern scholarship h

But we had hoped he was the one to redeem Israel rdquo There it is in a short summary sentence the end of their hope When hope is placed in the past tense it is over You get up share a last word and embrace with your friends dust yourself off and begin to walk home The Greek tense of the v

In January 2012 I began blogging a commentary on the Gospel of Mark available at the Bible Junkies blog and now at America Magazine which I completed just last week My somewhat ambitious goal is to write an online commentary on every New Testament document though I have given myself the equally

Palm Sunday of the Passion of our Lord (C), March 24, 2013

Last year I spent some time reading the powerful book The Night of the Confessor by nbsp the Czech Roman Catholic priest Tomas Halik His readings of the Gospel in light of the Church today moved me to write four blog posts at Bible Junkies I reproduce one of those posts here Church as quot Commu

Fifth Sunday of Lent (C), March 17, 2013

In case you have not heard, Pope Benedict XVI resigned. Nowadays, to choose a successor they gather all of the Cardinals under 80 from around the world and fly them to Rome to choose a new Pope. But how did Peter become the first Bishop of Rome, the man we call "Pope"? Practice, practice, practice

One of the ways in which we interact with the Bible is through film and this is not a new undertaking for filmmakers. As Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), edited by Adele Reinhartz, demonstrates, filmmakers have been making biblical films almost from the