The Gospel teaching on asking with its embedded parable seems to set the tone Though I am sympathetic with the sleepy householder Ask sooner friend Ask more quietly more politely Bake your own bread I hear something quite different Ask for anything Ask importunately Ask for basics As

Some New Testament scholars use the model of a sage a novel dispenser of wisdom to explain how Jesus might have looked to his contemporaries Though the idea of Jesus as sage does not do justice to the entirety of the gospel stories it certainly fits Luke 11 9-13 On the heels of the Lord s Pra

Of the many criticisms of the work of biblical scholars the one I have most recently been attacked with is that we are not theological enough so it was with some eagerness that I agreed to review a theological commentary on 1 2 Kings My eagerness was diminished somewhat when I discovered that

Gen 18 1-10a Col 24-28 Luke 10 38-42 Mary spends time listening to Jesus because he opens up a whole world to her Paul calls it the mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones Many people are totally closed off from this mystery it is a world they find t

Sixteenth Sunday of the Year C Luke 10 38-42 In 1999 I met an elderly Dominican at the Sainte Baume the holy cave in Provence the beautiful Cezanne region in the south of France where tradition has it that Mary Magdalene having labored for the evangelization of the region retired into solitu

Over the years the biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has written extensively on various Old Testament topics Among his favorite subjects is the prophet Jeremiah Fifteen of his articles on the subject have been collected in Like Fire in the Bones Listening to the Prophetic Word in Jeremiah P