The Greek word sophia appears twenty-six times in the first three chapters of First Corinthians. It was a word widely used to refer to wisdom. In the context of this letter,...

Isaiah’s call was not only to point out the collective sin of corruption but also to show the people that the way forward is through justice. Isaiah described the path of...

Our word religion derives from the Latin word religio, which means “encounter, reverence, or devotion to the divine.” Christian spirituality in turn is defined as “the practices that allow us to...

In a postmodern context in which almost everything is being deconstructed and in which people increasingly lose faith in institutions, there is no better way to evangelize than with the witness...

Integrity can be defined as the congruence between our inner and outer world, between who we are and what we do. Matthew 5 is precisely a call to integrity. In the...

The Beatitudes are both a promise and a demand. They promise God’s action breaking into the affairs of this world. They demand that Christ’s followers manifest kingdom values in their daily...

Too often we read the Beatitudes as passive statements or promises of future rewards, but they are an active proclamation of God’s reign amid human misery, a prophetic reversal of the...

I belong to an indigenous community that inhabits the mountains and hills in the northern part of the Philippines. Our ancestors were labeled as barbaric, demonic, ignorant, and foolish by Spanish...

Paul was writing to a congregation beset with disunity, immorality, infidelity, and other problems. In many ways, the Corinthian church was a microcosm of Corinth itself. Corinth was a major Greek...

When I was a child, my parents farmed land we did not own for a living. Every planting season, we had to take loans from wealthy businessmen so we could buy...