A dozen years ago, when encountering the Gospel of John while planning Holy Week liturgies, I remembered that class. We ended up dividing John's text among four readers, rehearsed it, and offered it ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels ... John begins with a poetic prologue (1:1-18) that many have dubbed the "overture" to the whole work.

John's gospel is forcing us, dramatically at least, through the storytelling mode, to think of Jesus as a passover lamb. ... November 18, 2015 / 5:27 pm In Fight Against ISIS, ...

Emery goes on to write, “As a young person, the Gospel of John was my least favorite due to its perceived complexity. However, a class on the Gospel of John at seminary transformed my perspective.

For John, the cosmos has shifted over this fateful weekend. Significantly, in John’s gospel, when Mary Magdalene encounters the risen Jesus early on that Easter morning, she mistakes him for ...

John's gospel is witness to a Christianity that's moving farther and father away from Jewish tradition. And in fact it's seeing Jewish tradition often as actually hostile to the Christian movement.