Voices
John W. Martens is a professor of theology and director of the Centre for Christian Engagement at St. Mark’s College at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
The Word
All the Gospels recall that on the second morning after Jesus was laid in the tomb Mary Magdalene and other women were the first to arrive at the tomb to care for Jesus rsquo body but his body was not in the tomb It would be a strange account to concoct Why James Dunn says in Jesus Remembered
The Word
If the Gospel accounts stopped just after Jesus rsquo entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday how would you imagine the next few days playing out The Gospel of John quotes Zec 9 9 ndash 10 as Jesus enters the city ldquo Look your king is coming sitting on a donkey rsquo s colt rdquo The people
The Good Word
This is the fourteenth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles This post examines the third summary of the communal life of the disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem For previous entries please now go to the Complete Acts of the Apostle Commentary where you can find lin
The Word
When we hear of the martyrdom of Christians like the 21 Coptic Christians killed in Libya recently we identify with them immediately as disciples of Jesus and as our brothers and sisters in Christ However little we might know about the history of the Coptic Christians in their suffering witness
The Good Word
This is the thirteenth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles The first entrycovered some of the major critical technical and background issues that will concern us as we read through and comment on the Acts The second post found here considered the prologue to
The Word
One of the darkest times in the life of the Jewish people was the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Babylonians and the subsequent exile of the people of God According to the Chronicler this was not an action God wanted ldquo but they kept mocking the messengers of God despising hi
The Good Word
This is the twelfth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles The first entrycovered some of the major critical technical and background issues that will concern us as we read through and comment on the Acts The second post found here considered the prologue to th
The Word
There is no question about the centrality of the Ten Commandments to Judaism and subsequently to Christianity The Ten Words as the Old Testament itself calls them Ex 34 28 Dt 4 13 or Decalogue which God spoke to Moses resonate down through the centuries into our lives The Catechism of the C
The Word
The first thing Abraham had to do was listen to God but Abraham also had to be willing to hear God no matter the word spoken And the word Abraham first heard from God the command to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac remains even now at some level inconceivable and incomprehensible Why would God
The Good Word
This is the eleventh entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles The first entry nbsp covered some of the major critical technical and background issues that will concern us as we read through and comment on the Acts The second post found here considered the prologu