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The Imperative Betrayal October 24, 2022
Why did Judas do it? The betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth by Judas Iscariot, one of his 12 disciples, has become the paradigmatic act of treachery in Western culture. Modern historians are sceptical of many and even most details of Jesus’ life and death...
Should Pastors Be Political? August 26, 2022
As is obvious from even a glance at the New Testament, the Church's institutional mission is not the management of the state (that is, the practice of politics). In reading about the apostle Paul’s ministry, for example, it is clear that the minutiae...
God in Translation December 20, 2021
Not long after Jesus ascended into heaven, his bewildered friends huddled in a room together and wondered what would come next. Then it happened: “[S]uddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the whole hous...
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Fierce New Testament November 22, 2021
“Never in the modern age,” Bernard-Henri Lévy writes in his new book, The Will to See, “has humanity been so separated from itself, so divided. And never has the unity of the human race, a fragile but sacred principle since the origins of the Judeo-C...
Is Hell Christian? July 03, 2020
I realized when I was around eight that the very concept of hell is insane and evil, and never looked back. I don’t regard this as an especially precocious perception—many other Christians I have known report a similar experience.I wrote the above se...
