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Daniel 7, an apocalyptic vision of the end of human history, is a challenging text for both the preacher and the person in the pew. The Bible’s apocalyptic texts, whether in Daniel or Revelation, have (...)

Jesús continúa enseñando a sus discípulos a través de parábolas en las que describe a Dios como un constante promotor de la justicia. Las descripciones de Jesús son simples y directas al grano y les (...)

Wrestling is the most honest, most profound metaphor for the life of faith. Wrestling is how we are invited to encounter scripture. And it is how we are invited to encounter God. The storyline build (...)

¡Tranquila, humanidad! Los tropiezos son inevitables (Lc 17:1). ¿O se refiere mejor a un escándalo, como se traduce en algunas versiones bíblicas? Pero ¿qué significa aquí esto de hacer tropezar o de ser la persona (...)

I had a seminary professor who insisted that when we wrote about someone else’s point of view, even someone whose words and actions we found problematic, reprehensible, or “wicked” (verse 1), we should write in (...)

The book of Lamentations emerges from the disorienting aftermath of a pivotal moment in ancient Israelite history: namely, the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 587 BCE. Over a decade, the Judahites’ entire world fell apart. (...)

“Ver y no tocar” es la amonestación que quizás escuchamos cuando éramos niños, sobre todo si entrábamos en un lugar en el que se encontraban objetos frágiles o preciosos. En la parábola de este día, (...)

An enormous and growing wealth gap separates a few—both individuals and nations—from the many who live in poverty. Sound familiar? First-century life within the Roman Empire was much like the reality we know, in this (...)

In 1 Timothy 2:1–7, the author shifts into the specific “instructions” (tēn paraggelian, see also 1:3–4) that he first mentions in 1:18. The goal of such instruction is “faith and a good conscience” (New Revised (...)

The parable at the heart of this passage is a head-scratcher, one of the most puzzling texts in the New Testament. A business manager (steward, oikonomos) engages in questionable conduct that damages his boss financially, (...)