April is the cruellest month, breeding  Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring  Dull roots with spring rain.  (T...

And so our lengthy series of reflections based on Jesus' parable of the Good Shepherd and his sheep in John 10 comes to its inevitable c...

In John 10, (implicitly) during the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus famously tells a parable ( paroimia ) of a shepherd and his flock of sheep i...

  Three years ago, as I was driving through Southwest Philadelphia on my way back from Bartram's Garden to the old homestead in Haverfor...

For all of John's "high" Christology―about which more will be discussed in a later post in this series―and his stated purpose ...

"He was delivered over to death for our sins  and was raised to life for our justification." ~Paul the Apostle, Romans 4:25 In the...

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.  He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who nei...