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The May issue of the Journal of Christian Studies is in the last stages of production and will be shipping soon. The theme of JCS 4.2 is...

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Christ Carrying the Cross, 1737 A few years ago, in preparation for Easter, I preached through the various people surrounding Jesus’ passion, using Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart’s wonderful little book (a collection of sermons), At the Cross: Meditations on People Who Were There as a springboard for imagination and interpretation. One of those homilies was on Simon of Cyrene. I can hear my old homiletics teacher now: “How can you put together

Headstone in San Marcos City Cemetery, San Marcos, Texas * For the past few years, my parents, as they age, have made increasingly robust efforts to—how shall I put this delicately?—get rid of their junk. I must immediately qualify that statement in two important ways. First, I am grateful that they are running it all by their children; we get first dibs. Second, much of it is decidedly not junk: Granddaddy’s (and now Dad’s) 1960 Chevy Impala, his antique pitch pipe, the V