In Mark 11:3, Jesus tells his disciples to answer anyone who had an objection to untying a colt, “The Lord has need of it.” The word lord in Greek is kurios and can simply mean “master.” If you were to add a “the” in front of it, (ho kurios) and…

My experience in New York tonight was like seeing an old love who had not changed a bit, and yet, that was the problem — I had. (At least, I imagine that’s what it was like. New York is the closest thing to an old love that I have.) New…

I have the feeling that an embarrassingly small number of us in Western Christianity are anywhere close to understanding the profound implication of Jesus washing his disciples’ feet. Servant leadership…

The following thoughts started churning after reading a chapter in Richard Hays’s Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of Israel’s Scripture. Hays was one of the first theologians who made studying the Bible fun for me. My working hypothesis is that much of Paul’s understanding of how a church…