“What does it mean to be a prophet?” This is the challenge preachers must wrestle with and present to their congregations over and over, says Luke Timothy Johnson, a renowned Scripture scholar, ...

I’m taking a class on the Gospel of Luke this semester, and one of my assignments is to engage in an ongoing spiritual practice related to that particular Gospel. So for the entire semester I am ...

We’re in Year C of the liturgical cycle, and that means the Gospel of Luke is the one we’ll hear most often at Sunday Masses this year. Luke’s vision of Jesus is deeply attuned to God’s compassion, ...

I remember well the joy of learning about the four Evangelists for the first time. I was a boy in Catholic school in Brooklyn and, from attending Mass, knew that there were different names that were ...

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, ...

Justo González explores underappreciated themes in the books of Luke and Acts. How does a church historian end up writing on Luke? I’m interested in Luke because he is the closest thing in the New ...

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 ...