News of Raymond Brown’s death on August 8, 1998, swept through the scholarly community like a global blackout. A renowned scholar, teacher, churchman, mentor and friend was gone. A source of popular ...
Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), Antonio Ciseri's depiction of Pilate presenting a scourged Jesus to the people of Jerusalem. (Wikimedia) Over the weekend, I saw a number of comments from Jewish Twitter ...
The method of Philip Saville's The Gospel of John defies ordinary film criticism and indeed ordinary movie viewing. Dialogue and narration have been taken, verbatim and without omission or ...
A few weeks ago, a parish in Missoula, Mont., participated in a Lenten retreat. The theme for their reflection was taken from the first chapter of John: “What are you looking for?” (1:38). One person ...
A recurring challenge for preachers, teachers and readers of the Gospel of John is making sense of its references to “the Jews.” At Jesus’ sentencing Pilate goes “out to the Jews” to tell them that he ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texans will get the chance to feast their eyes upon an ancient piece of scroll that’s over 1,600 years old. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin acquired a ...
Christian students at Western Kentucky University (WKU) shared their faith in an unconventional way during the final week before their spring break. Around 70 students huddled over the campus sidewalk ...
John’s gospel is depicted, complete with Aramaic narration, highlighting Christ’s life including birth, baptism, first miracle, healing the blind man, walking on water, feeding the multitude, raising ...