In 2000 David Buttrick began a project that focused on the language of Jesus and the ways in which attention to Jesus’ language can inform and shape preaching. Speaking Conflict is the final volume in ...

Probably no film in history has been written about as much before its public debut as Mel Gibson’s new movie about the last days of Jesus. Many of the critics and scholars who have seen it screened in ...

When Mang Sing, a Christian pastor born in Myanmar’s Chin state, first heard the characters of the film “Jesus” speaking in the Zo language of his people, his heart skipped a beat. “I couldn’t imagine ...

David Buttrick, who through his teaching and writing has shaped a generation of Pro­testant preachers, admits he is not "a guild-approved" biblical scholar. But he here puts forward a homiletic method ...