I remember my first Lent and just how long 40 days seemed to be. Each day dragged on. Fasting from social media freed my schedule from...

The biblical story begins with God’s act of creation. At the start, God creates humanity in His image: “So God created mankind in his...

I find the thesis that Mark’s Gospel functions primarily as an apology for the cross convincing. Mark’s narrative is marked by...

The pericope of Mark 5:21-43 is a typical “Markan sandwich” in which Mark places one narrative inside another, leading the reader to...

οὐχ οὕτως δέ ἐστιν ἐν ὑμῖν· ἀλλ’ ὃς ἂν θέλῃ μέγας γενέσθαι ἐν ὑμῖν, ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος, καὶ ὃς ἂν θέλῃ ἐν ὑμῖν εἶναι πρῶτος, ἔσται...

Ched Myers reads the Gospel of St. Mark as centered on “the contradiction of the cross-life given, not taken-representing the only power...