What is the underlying cultural script or metanarrative that guides the values and lives of 21st-century North Americans? And in what ways does the Bible offer an alternative and opposing cultural ...

Recently I browsed the front end of the religion section in my neighborhood bookstore, and I found dozens of Bibles: teen Bibles, “practical” Bibles, a travel Bible, a “businessman’s” Bible, Bibles ...

As we approach the end of the liturgical year, the focus of our Sunday readings turns to the end times and to what is expected of those who claim to be faithful disciples of the living God. As ...

Scripture is clear that both go hand in hand. In seminary, my discipleship courses had a particular focus: passing on what the apostles had taught about doctrines like the Atonement and practices like ...

In 1999, Oblate Fr. Ronald Rolheiser published The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality. It was an author's dream, selling some 250,000 copies and establishing Rolheiser as a beloved ...

What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? In honor of World Marriage Day on Sunday, Feb. 9, our pastor read an excerpt from the “Exhortation Before Marriage” from the ...

Richard Wilke, a bishop of The United Methodist Church who, along with his wife, helped develop the popular Disciple Bible Study series, has died at the age of 94. The Richard and Julia Wilke ...