In 2000 David Buttrick began a project that focused on the language of Jesus and the ways in which attention to Jesus’ language can inform and shape preaching. Speaking Conflict is the final volume in ...
When Mang Sing, a Christian pastor born in Myanmar’s Chin state, first heard the characters of the film “Jesus” speaking in the Zo language of his people, his heart skipped a beat. “I couldn’t imagine ...
Probably no film in history has been written about as much before its public debut as Mel Gibson’s new movie about the last days of Jesus. Many of the critics and scholars who have seen it screened in ...
David Buttrick, who through his teaching and writing has shaped a generation of Protestant preachers, admits he is not "a guild-approved" biblical scholar. But he here puts forward a homiletic method ...
In preparation for Good Friday's Way of the Cross: A Walk for Justice, I offer this reflection on Station VIII, Jesus speaks to the weeping women: The news out of Jerusalem today is not good. And the ...
It’s been some time ago but I heard one of the most powerful sayings a friend of mine used to say often right before he was about to be installed as the new pastor of his own church. “When Satan ...
Some words take on expanded meanings over time. It wasn’t long ago, for example, that only birds tweeted. Other words develop narrower meanings. Consider the word business, for example, which today ...
Editor’s note: Columns such as this are solely the opinion of the author. Send comments on this column to [email protected]. I was just shy of my third birthday when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot.
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