New film ‘Chasing the Rain’ wrestles with suffering and other unanswerable questions
RNS It’s not exactly Elf. It isn’t Heaven Is for Real, either. The new film Chasing the Rain may be bookended by Christmas scenes and deal with Christian themes, but theologian and pastor Greg Boyd puts it in the genre of Job, the Biblical book about one man’s unrelenting suffering. Actors Hakeem Kae-Kazim, left, and Matt […]
The COVID-19 books: Pope Francis, John Piper, NT Wright and more
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, canvas some of the books on offer addressing faith in the coronavirus pandemic…
Martin Luther’s pandemic advice goes viral — 500 years later
Chicago, USRNS It has been more than 500 years since German monk Martin Luther’s words went viral, thanks to what was then some cutting-edge technology. In 1517, Luther’s famed 95 Theses helped spark the Protestant Reformation after they were distributed far and wide with the help of the printing press, the 16th century’s version of […]
Podcasts: Scholarly discussions of the first Christians
In the first of our podcast reviews, NILS VON KALM listens to NT Wright and Michael Bird’s ‘The New Testament In Its World’…
NT Wright explains the world of the New Testament in new book
Chicago, USRNS New Testament scholar NT Wright has spent most of his life teaching people how to study the New Testament. And the most important thing, he says, is getting the context right. Without that context, it’s “fatally easy for people to distort bits of Christianity”, Wright said. “If we ignore the context, we can […]
THE INTERVIEW: NT WRIGHT ON THE APOSTLE PAUL’S SUDDEN POPULARITY
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER talks to Bible scholar NT Wright about his new book on the Apostle Paul – and why Paul is experiencing a sudden wave of popularity…
BOOKS: ‘THE DAY THE REVOLUTION BEGAN’ A “MASTERPIECE” ON THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF JESUS CHRIST
NILS VON KALM finds NT Wright’s latest a masterful exploration of the ramifications of Christ’s death and resurrection…