(RNS) — Of the four Gospel writers, Mark is the one you would not want to invite to dinner. But he is the one who will challenge you to listen more carefully and to think more deeply about Jesus. (RNS ...
If you’ve ever sat down and read through the Gospel of Mark in one sitting, one word stands out like a flashing light: ...
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear: “The KJV actually sang quite well.” When composer Christopher Tyler Nickel set out to create an oratorio of Mark’s gospel, he made an ambitious decision to ...
Readings: Mark 11:1-10 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark 14:1-15:47 If the Passion of St. Mark’s Gospel were a murder mystery, the colt would be the key. Seems odd, doesn’t it, that Jesus, for the ...
On the first day of New Testament classes, I alert my students: the scriptures emerged in complex circumstances. When they were written, nobody knew how things would turn out. Every­thing is fluid.