I used to reassure my students that it was okay to ask questions. "There's no such thing as a dumb question," I

Is this reading from Genesis a charming and wise story, or a pernicious piece of misogyny?

In this story from the Gospel of Mark, something happens that really seems to annoy Jesus ...

People are idiots, and idiocy kills. But, on a more optimistic note ...

We keep thinking of God as less—less forgiving, less loving, less understanding than a person. That's wrong. God is more.

Don't get weary till our work is done.

Henry Ainsworth wrote the psalter that was the only songbook brought to the Plymouth colony in 1620.

I can tell the truth, or I can make sense, but not both at once ...

Everyone likes a good beheading—but the story of the beheading of John isn't in the Gospel of Mark only for shock value.