“Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so.” Like most children raised by Christian parents in the South, I learned that song before I learned to sing my ABCs. It’s true that the Bible ...
356 pp., $26.00. According to Walter Wink, Christian orthodoxy has portrayed Jesus as the omnipotent God in a man-suit. Though this image of a perfect, almost inhuman Christ has dominated two ...
Today’s Gospel story always causes controversy. At the very least, it still has the power to surprise. Matthew’s Gospel has Jesus initially turning down a woman who has asked for healing for her ...
THE ordinary reader of this book will be divided between boredom and bewilderment. The student of the life of Jesus will find it not only provocative but provoking. The author evidently knows ...
Theologian, scholar, and peace activist Wink (Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way), who died in 2012, chronicles his lifetime faith journey in his last book. The reader accompanies him as he expounds ...
From the standpoint of world history, Jesus Christ looms as the most incredible and significant person who's ever lived. Yale historian Jaraslav Pelikan said in his book, Jesus Through the Centuries: ...
Source: Adobe stock image by lukbar, licensed by Ravi Chandra As the legend and Gospel of Matthew have it, sometime soon after baby Jesus was born in Bethlehem, three wise men of the East came bearing ...