It’s no secret that Jesus’ closest male collaborators were a bunch of ragtag individuals. The gospel writers don’t try to hide the limitations and at times incompetence of “the twelve.” Today we read ...

Mature disciples are those for whom the liberation of their fellow human beings is enough. We can know that Christ is alive and at work among us every time we see someone else regain their freedom, ...

In those days all kinds of people had disciples, and two of the Greek words that were in common use at that time were didaskalos, which means teacher, and mathetes, which means pupil or disciple. Now ...