JOHN THE EVANGELIST, according to ancient Christian tradition one of the Twelve chosen by Jesus; the son of Zebedee, brother of James, and author of the Fourth Gospel, the Johannine letters, and the Book of Revelation. Called by Jesus from his vocation...

Saint John the Evangelist (d. ca. 110; יוחנן "The LORD is merciful", Standard Hebrew Yoḥanan, Tiberian Hebrew Yôḥānān), or the Beloved Disciple, is traditionally the name used to refer to the author of the Gospel of John and the First...

When the Vatican released The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae) in 1995, liberals applauded John Paul II's critique of our bottom-line culture. But progressives doubted that his full-scale attack on a "culture of death" would win many converts to the pro-life cause. Wishful thinking,...

WARREN CARTER, John: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2006). Pp. xvi + 264. Paper $19.95. Hendrickson has been publishing a series of books on the authors of the Gospels with these three themes: storyteller, interpreter, evangelist. This volume follows Carter's study of...

National Guard Capt. Jeffrey Cox watched soldiers lose sight of God in the violence and daily grind of the war in Iraq.He's hoping they can find their faith again in an Episcopal monastery along the Charles River.Prodded by Cox, the Society of Saint John the...