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As Trump's second term deepens America's political divides, experts warn of a new wave of far-left militancy playing out ...
The phrase “Jesus is Lord” should not be used in American politics because rather than validating any party platform, it actually runs counter to the entire political process. It doesn’t point to any ...
But Jesus’ ministry was deeply political — not in the partisan sense, but in its radical challenge to power structures. He preached good news to the poor, lifted up the marginalized ...
But understood in his socio-historical context, Jesus is coaching his followers in nonviolent political resistance. As theologian Mary Hinkle Shore explains, “Jesus offers his ethic as a way for ...
Political activists, pastors and media personalities alike seem eager to enlist Jesus as a kind of spiritual mascot for their side. He becomes a champion for climate justice, a defender of ...
In two newly published books, British Scholar S.G.F. Brandon offers another interpretation: he proposes that in Roman eyes Jesus was a dangerous political rebel who was executed by Pilate on the ...
Its primary objective is to convince conservative Christians they are too political. “Jesus was neither a Republican nor a Democrat,” we’re told. “Partisan politics is divisive and only ...
The he is Jesus Christ. And the ads say things like ... where every single personal choice you make gets grafted onto the political spectrum, and people use it to make inferences about where ...
[T]he plaque that was nailed to the cross which identified him as Jesus, King of the Jews. This piece of evidence suggests that he was executed by the Roman authorities on some charge of political ...
How “Jesus and the Powers,” cowritten with Michael F. Bird, calls Christians into the political sphere. “We both had the sense that most Christians today have not really been taught very ...
And that was the world into which Jesus was born. I have sketched the political and social meltdown that Palestine suffered in the terrible year of 4 BCE. Wars and insurrections were by no means ...