Matthew

“Welcoming the ‘Whelps’: A Queer-Allied Reading of Matthew 15:21-28,” by Catie Scudera

Posted on July 14, 2013July 12, 2013 by Claremont Journal of Religion

Matthew 15:21-28 and its corollary text Mark 7:24-30 take place within a historical context of great turmoil and tragedy for the Jewish people.[1] During Jesus’s time, Pax Romana was in effect, wher... Read More

How to Stop Being Such a Wretched Sinner: The Lutheran Case for Humility

Posted on June 24, 2011June 24, 2011 by Nate Kratzer

Recently a good friend asked me if people could sin without knowing it. I’m inclined to not only say yes, but to argue that we are perpetually sinning without knowing it. In fact, part of the reason... Read More

Where is God in Goodbye?

Posted on March 22, 2011March 22, 2011 by Jenn Lindsay

A while back I found out that my partner was a sex addict who had been leading a boozy secret life full of violence fetishes, endangerment of women, unprotected sex, compulsive pornographic email exch... Read More

Interreligious Encounter: Magi, Mary, and Jesus

Posted on December 24, 2010December 26, 2010 by Paul Joseph Greene

What Scriptural model of dialogue might we choose? Let us live out the model of interreligious dialogue taught to us by the Magi and Mary—so that maybe (maybe) the Moseses and Pharaohs of our world... Read More