I've been meaning to get to this one for days: A lot of people didn't like Tony Perkins' CNN Belief Blog post last week, and rightly so. Jesus was a free marketer, long before the concept was ...
Not “Go and think likewise.” Not “Agree with the moral of this story” or “Find stories like this inspiring.” The parable of the Good Samaritan is one of Jesus’ best-known, most beloved parables. We ...
“Hear the parable of the sower” (Matt 13:18). The familiar parable of the sower is the first parable Jesus tells in Matthew’s Gospel. This makes sense because it is a parable about parables, how to ...
"The Return of the Prodigal Son", by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, c. 1669 This Sunday’s Gospel evokes deep human emotions, which Rembrandt famously depicted in his painting The Return of the ...
I remember as a kid in Sunday school being introduced to the parables of Jesus via the flannel graph images used by my teacher. (To those of you unfamiliar with a flannel graph, it was the VCR of its ...