Jesus only loses his cool a handful of times in the New Testament (just ask the moneychangers in the Temple), but he ...

Evangelical Republicans today are like certain characters in the Bible in Jesus’ day — the very spiritual, very educated, ...

We know instead about other groups or schools or movements or parties.... The most conspicuous of these parties or schools will be the Pharisees. The Pharisees are known to everybody from the New ...

These communities were led by Pharisees, rabbis who assumed leadership of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the destruction of Jerusalem. Matthew is at pains to place his community squarely ...