Tag: Jesus Christ

The Quest for the Historical Jesus

By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees teaches Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union and the University of California Berkeley. He has just completed a play on Emerson and his circle and is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon. He can be reached at bobrees2@gmail.com.     Pilate asked the …

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Salvator Mundi

By Robert A. Rees Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He is compiling a collection of his essays on the Book of Mormon, and can be reached at bobrees2@gmail.com.     On October 2017, I got a call from my son-in-law Paul Clark informing me that Salvator …

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Pentecost

By Robert A. Rees   On a recent trip to Peru for the Liahona Children’s Foundation, I was asked to address the Peruvian Congress on the subject of children’s malnutrition. Although I don’t speak Spanish, my colleague from the Foundation, Alberto Puertas, is Peruvian and beautifully bilingual, and so the members of the Congress heard …

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Finding Christ at St. Paul the Apostle Church

By Robert A. Rees “To be in a holy place where love is found, where all are named and where hearts are freed to change the world.” —Motto of St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Hollywood, California     ONE SUNDAY, MY friend David Ballantine invited me to attend church with him. I have known David since …

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Jesus in the Modern World

By Robert A. Rees Jesus is like a Rorschach test. He is like the doubloon Captain Ahab nails to the mast in Moby Dick, a mirror in which we see our own reflection staring back at us. As a Christian who teaches religion at both Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley (as …

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His Eye Is on the Sparrow

By Dana Haight Cattani I HEAR THE telltale thump. Walking to the window, I confirm what I already suspect. In spite of our decals and shiny reflector tape, another sparrow has flown into one of the panes along the back side of our house and fallen to the deck below. In vain, I watch the …

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How Much Does Jesus Care about Doctrinal Purity?

In this regular column, Michael Vinson, a master’s graduate of the Divinity School of the University of Cambridge and a frequent devotional speaker at Sunstone symposiums, delves into personal and scholarly aspects of scripture . . . And I shall bring to light the true points of my doctrine, yea, and the only doctrine which …

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