Throughout the Bible God graciously blesses us so we can richly bless others. Nancy and I had gotten married and were celebrating our first Christmas together. I was in grad school. We had no money at ...

On Sunday, the Gospel reading is the Beatitudes, one of the most loved and well-known passages of the New Testament. This marks the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. The Beatitudes are found in ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. In the second beatitude, Jesus says, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Like the first beatitude, ...

My best answer was that the scriptures had nothing to say on same-gender relationships. The Bible couldn’t speak on queer people in the same way that we could not ask it about best practices for ...