Peter had put all his hope in his beloved friend, Jesus, only to see him cruelly crucified. Jesus had healed the sick, fed the hungry, comforted the desperate, and preached good...

Mary supposes Jesus to be the gardener. A few days earlier, in another garden, Jesus’ trusted friends could not stay awake and pray, and another betrayed him. Jesus begged, “Let this...

Make it as secure as you can,” Pilate says and assigns a guard of soldiers to work with the chief priests and the Pharisees. Matthew is the only Gospel writer to...

If you don’t know the name of Rollen Stewart, I bet you know who he is. In the 1970s and ‘80s, Stewart appeared at major sporting events wearing a rainbow wig...

One evening in December of 2015, Zaevion Dobson was walking home with friends after playing basketball at a neighborhood recreation center. The four stopped on the front porch of an apartment...

This is the third of four “servant songs” in chapters 40–55 of Isaiah. Who is this servant? We can only speculate. Some claim it is Isaiah himself; others say it is...

Imagine the first-century followers of the Way. In the two decades following Jesus’ death, the fledgling church has struggled, knowing that a confession of Jesus Christ as Lord was politically subversive...

Waste not, want not,” Ben Franklin warns. Those of us who are children of the Depression or children of children of the Depression have learned how to squeeze the life out...

Who is this?” This question seems to be on everyone’s lips as Jesus processes into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey. Is this the question on the minds of the...

Why did Jesus have to die? Who was responsible? Was it Judas, who chose to betray him for thirty pieces of silver? Or maybe we could blame Jesus’ disciples as a...