Maybe you remember the words to this little song: “Jesus loves me this I know, because the Bible tells me so.” Did you get a warm and fuzzy feelling when you heard it as a kid? I certainly did. But as I matured my understanding of who Jesus was in my life becamse more and
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Uncovering the Man Behind the Epistles Whether you admire him or find him controversial, there is no denying that Saint Paul is one of the most influential figures in human history. To many, he is the theological architect of Western Christianity; to others, he represents a dramatic shift away from the original teachings of Jesus.
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Yesterday at church, someone reached out to me in genuine curiosity. As a Quaker visiting their congregation, I had been warmly introduced. Afterward, a woman came up to ask me questions about my faith and perspective. Instead of meeting her curiosity with grace, I reacted with defensiveness and anger. I spent the night reflecting on
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In many traditional church settings, John 14:6—“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me”—is often taught as a line of exclusion. It is frequently framed as a dogmatic barrier declaring Jesus as the sole gateway to God, dividing those who are “in” from those
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Thousands of people around the world, from all cultures, religions, age groups, those who believe in God and an afterlife and those who don’t will respond to this question by saying “Yes really, it happened to me.” So what exactly happened? People who are at the brink of death but are brought back to life
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In the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 19, Mark 10, and Luke 18), Jesus makes a startling statement that has challenged believers for two millennia: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Whenever we read this, the immediate
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If you’ve hung around some spiritual geeks and seekers like me, read books or articles about progressive Christianity, or watched a few YouTube interviews with your favorite biblical scholars or theologians, you might have encountered the term Deconstruction. This rather recent phenomenon describes the process of dismantling the inherited religious beliefs, dogma and practices you
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Written as an introduction to a new Spanish edition of the New Testament, Sojourners obtained this original English translation (done by Sister Kathleen England) and is introducing this remarkable study to American readers. Juan Mateos, born in Spain in 1917, was a Jesuit scholar of biblical studies and church liturgy and was teaching at the Oriental
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Lately, much is being written by scholars, historians and spiritual seekers about ways to elevate the idea of the Divine Feminine and move it from the realm of the strictly esoteric to mainstream theological exploration and study. The discovery in 1945 of a treasure-trove of Gnostic gospels in the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper
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Nearly fifty years ago, when I was eighteen, I encountered a study that changed how I understood Jesus, Scripture, and the purpose of faith. Juan Mateos’s “The Message of Jesus” was one of my first introductions to a way of reading the New Testament that was historically informed, spiritually serious, and willing to question inherited
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