Previously on this blog I have written about the Common English Bible translation and the Conservative Bible Project though I have not connected the two in nbsp any way At the Better Bibles Blog which is dedicated to improving Bible translations Wayne Leman has written about claims that the Comm

Jesus told his disciples this parable ldquo The Kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage he sent them into his vineyard Going out about nine o rsquo clock he saw others standing idle in the m

There was an interesting post at Scot McNight rsquo s Jesus Creed blog on September 14 2011 dealing with ldquo universalism rdquo in the New Testament nbsp Basically McNight wanted to know why the texts speaking of ldquo all rdquo finding salvation in Christ were not taken as seriously as tho

What will you do when the rapture comes If you aren rsquo t a fundamentalist Christian one who reads the Bible literally you rsquo re probably not preparing to be seized by Christ and taken up into heaven before closing tribulations fall upon the world Of course if the novelist Tom Perotta is

The fundamental paradox of Christianity is the Cross A reading for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Philippians 2 6-11 reveals the outlines of this paradox This passage known as ldquo the Hymn to Christ rdquo is thought by many scholars to be a ldquo pre-Pauline rdquo hymn su

The USA is often portrayed as the ldquo Greatest Country in the World rdquo or conversely nbsp the ldquo Great Satan rdquo the place to fulfill the American Dream or the Boulevard of Broken Dreams On September 11 2001 the reality of both of those categorizations met when planes were flown i