A few years ago I wrote an entry on St. Kateri Tekakwitha for the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States. She is important...

One of my favorite Gospel passages, the story of the demon-possessed boy with the despairing father, is the Gospel reading for today....

"The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the...

Mark 13 is a well-constructed intercalation in which Jesus teaches four of his disciples privately about the destruction of the Temple...

We come now to the grand conclusion of Jesus’s public controversy in the Temple. Mark sets the scribe and the widow in contrast,...

In closing the discipleship section, Mark presents Bartimaeus as the most powerful paradigm of discipleship on offer. The discipleship...

The discipleship section comes toward a close with the third Passion prediction, after which the disciples, far from acting like...

In Mark's preceding material, Jesus has taught the Twelve—celibates, the first clergy—about the radical demands of discipleship as he...

Jesus remains in Gentile territory. The route outlined in Mark 7:31 (from Tyre through Sidon and then, presumably, around the north and...

The relating of John the Baptist’s death is the B section of a sandwich, the main panel of this iconic triptych. The sandwich means...

The Transfiguration in Mark’s Gospel is many things. It fulfills and explains Jesus’s cryptic words in Mark 9:1, it reveals Jesus as the...