Is discipleship about personal sanctification or social reform? There's a rift among Christians on a question central to our identity: what does it mean to follow Jesus? For centuries, imitating…

AFTER THE ARK, Luke Johnson’s remarkable first collection of poetry, chronicles the author’s upbringing as the son of two ministers. A seasonal triptych, the poems root themselves in the landscapes…

Though there is much interest among biblical literalists in the historical figure of James, Johnson (New Testament and Christian origins, Emory U., Georgia) focuses on the letter attributed to him…

Miracles are not confined to the stories of Scripture; these signs of God’s presence and power in creation are experienced throughout our daily existence. Yet cultural challenges and modernity’s skepticism…

Focusing on the Gospel as it appears and not on its source or origin, this commentary explores just what Luke is saying and how he says it.

A selection of sermons or homilies preached over a fifty-year period explicitly linked to the church’s liturgical year–thus, In Season. The sermons exemplify how engagement with lectionary texts, the church’s…

The letters of Paul to Timothy, one of his favorite delegates, often make for difficult reading. This book provides a commentary that will help lay readers navigate the letters and…

Johnson, a New Testament scholar and Catholic theologian, clarifies the history of the Creed, discussing its evolution from the first decades of the Christian Church to the present day.