Introducing the magazine’s new five-year teaching venture. Ongoing controversies over the nature of the Atonement (substitutionary or Christus Victor?), the historical Adam (creation or evolution?), ...

Disciples are people who, like Jesus, have been captivated by God's love. In today's Gospel we hear Jesus describe three ...

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 ...

Many pastors in the United States say discipleship is essential in their churches, but most lack clear ways to measure it, ...

Reading the Gospel accounts of Good Friday, the first thing that strikes one is the degree to which the Hebrew Scriptures are present in the text. The early Christians were trying to make sense of ...

The primary scriptures, the Vedas and the Upanishads, are ideally learnt from a guru and the oral method of transmission that has prevailed since days of yore is shown to have been efficacious in ...

As the Church settles into an extended period of “Ordinary Time,” stretching until Nov. 26, we meet Jesus sending out his disciples (“others”) two by two. Note the words Luke uses: Jesus sends “also” ...

This Sunday’s Gospel reading presents a much more difficult challenge to anyone who wished to follow after Jesus. A disciple must hate “father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and ...