It may be the most famous shot in Hollywood history. Reggie Callow, an assistant director of “Gone with the Wind,” credits it to the film’s production designer, William Menzies. “He devised and ...

I once heard a story that used to make me laugh. "Computers are so powerful that pretty soon the country will be run by one computer, one man, and a dog," the teller says. "Really?" says the hearer.

In fact, a good deal of the Bible can easily be dismissed as foreign to the modern world. So much of every book of the Bible is in need of interpretation in a world of digital icons and multiple ...

When I was a graduate student at Duke, my professors David Steinmetz and Roland Murphy were blazing a new trail into the history of the interpretation of scripture, hacking away at the conceit that ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of columns by James Keenan, S.J., on contemporary issues in moral theology. I have argued in my last three columns that grief, vulnerability and ...

I’m reading Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship along with our Lenten Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount. I’m not sure when I last spent any time with this Christian classic (25 years, 35 years?).

As we search for meaning in the “blessings,” we must let them transform us. The yellowing notebook for my college philosophy of religion class contains this plaintive inscription: Sunday school was ...

A few years ago my friend, Pastor Adam Magnuson, brought these words to life with his church: Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take ...

One of the most familiar and important passages in all of scripture is the famous Sermon on the Mount in St. Matthew’s Gospel, which begins with the Beatitudes. But that’s not what we just heard today ...