What do we know if anything about Luke? Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone learned in Hellenistic literary and scientific culture. All of those are ...

One of the readings which can be used for the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola is Luke 14,26-33. In these words to a crowd Jesus speaks of what in the first century was called ‘hatred’. In his teaching, ...

Of all the books in the New Testament, Luke’s Gospel is the longest. The life of Jesus is chronicled similarly to Matthew’s and Mark’s portrayal. He devotes more ink to Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem, ...

Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Wither­ington III have written a unique commentary on Luke—the one I’ll turn to first for the foreseeable future. The first major commentary cowritten by a Jew and a Christian, ...

In 2007 the Sunday Gospel reading is almost always from Luke. The first part of today’s text (Luke 1:1-4) is the Evangelist’s preface, in which he explains how and why he wrote this Gospel. Luke ...

I feel like I've heard a lot about tax collectors lately. This Sunday we will read about Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector and wee little man who climbed a tree to see Jesus in Luke 19:1–10. Last ...

Judges 6:1-24 recounts the call of Gideon. The chapter opens by recounting a familiar story: God’s people have sinned and ...