The gospel is meant to acquire a local expression - incarnate in people's lives and social ways - at the same time it should spur cultural change.

by FR. JOSÉ REBELO, MCCJ

Accepting the historical Jesus means that we will not be tempted to reduce Jesus to His divine nature alone; we must accept His full humanity along with His full divinity. Knowing the historical Jesus means that we cannot reduce Him to our image, making Him into either a comfortable bourgeois figure or a political-social reformer. Jesus refuses to be contained in the boxes we create for Him.

by Fr. JAMES H. KROEGER, M.M.
Professor of Theology

What modern historical investigation can recover about Jesus is only part of the full portrait of "the Jesus of history"; there are many things that Jesus said and did to which modern historical research has no access. Within these limits, a common consensus can be drawn, a portrait to which most scholars would agree.

by FR. JAMES H. KROEGER, M.M.
Professor of Theology

Soon the Christian churches in the Philippines and around the world will be packed-out on Christmas night celebrating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, Savior of the world. Christians believe that Jesus came to save us from sin, not only from our personal sin by calling us to repent and believe the Good News, but saves us from being crushed and downtrodden by the "sins of the world," or from the sinners in the world. The phrase "sins of the world" sums up every evil created by corrupt, depraved and sinful human beings.

by FR. SHAY CULLEN
Columban Missionary

Does it even make sense to speak of fundamentalist Christianity? If a Church practices intolerance, discrimination, violence and alienation, it betrays the teaching of Jesus and cannot be a Christian Church.

by FR. RENATO KIZITO SESANA
Comboni Missionary

Imported from the U.S., where pastors lead luxury lives, Pentecostalism is winning herds of followers in Uganda. Not only due to false miracles and witchcraft practices, but because they preach the gospel of prosperity: for the faithful, poverty is a sin.

by JAEN-MARIE NSAMBU
Editor of Leadership - Uganda 

Without training or knowledge of indigenous cultures, Korean missionaries are spreading anger and frustration in Mindoro. Known for their fierce proselytism and their abundant funding, the Protestant denominations they represent are building fancy churches in the middle of the forest and even "converting" people who were already Christians. The catch: promises of land, water buffalo, motorbikes, generators and salaries.

by MICHAEL GIBB
Deputy Editor, JoongAng Daily, Seoul

Father Bob McCahill's diary entries are snapshots of his simple daily life, people's culture and untiring endeavors to help the poor of Bangladesh. In spite of his age, the 72-year-old unpretentious, semi-itinerant Maryknoll Missionary is not looking for retirement; on the contrary, he is prospecting new places for his next move, after three years of work in Narail, a town seven hours away, by bus, from the capital Dhaka

by FR. BOB McCAHILL, M.M.
Missionary in Bangladesh

Where is My place of rest in which I can eat the Passover with My disciples? (Read Mark 14:12-16)

by FR. SILVANO FAUSTI, S.J.
Biblist & Writer