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The death of Stephen Hawking led to predictable observations and storylines: “He is free now,”...

Growing up, I was told that fundamentalists were judgmental. The implication, of course, was that...

The ritual of Ash Wednesday always calls to mind one of my favorite “Far Side”...

Ash Wednesday, like other days in the Christian calendar, is designed to encourage spiritual reflection....

I have no trouble praying for the dying or the dead. With C.S. Lewis (among...

  Last week I wrote about the importance of rigor in a seminary education. Predictably,...

  I found myself in a conversation with students about the challenges of being a...

One of the vagaries of curriculum revision is that you find yourself teaching a new...

Rightly, we have been discussing women's rights in one form or another for nearly 170...

Sometime ago I watched the film, “Shenandoah.” James Stewart plays Charlie Anderson, a Virginia farmer...

All Saints Day, 2017   The Church witnesses to a world that is broken and...

Coming from Scot McKnight, who is himself a leading evangelical voice, the summons to bury...

Coming from Scot McKnight, who is himself a leading evangelical voice, the summons to bury...

A few weeks ago a firestorm erupted over an announcement at Patheos that former mega-church...

By all means, let’s discover as much as we can about why Stephen Paddock fired...

In the wake of Hugh Hefner’s demise this week, the BBC solemnly promised, “we'll discuss...

  I believe in freedom of speech and, therefore, the right to protest. Unless anarchy,...

Much of the literature on the fundamentalist – modernist controversy of the 1920’s and 30’s...

Over the years I’ve seen and read a number of articles about professional boundaries and...

There should be a special place in purgatory for people who use theology to bludgeon...

Do you want your church? When I went to seminary in the seventies, the church...

Plainly and without question, both the hatred and prejudice expressed last night in Charlottesville and...

Note: The following guest article is by my friend, Ashley Mowers.  I invited Ashley to...

We have the good fortune of living in a world in which an ever-greater number...

I’ve spent a bit of time following the story of Charlie Gard this summer. First...

  As the news spills out from every corner of the globe and as our...

A new study by political scientists notes that clergy, on the whole, are more partisan...

Pastors work in what students of organization call “loosely linked bureaucracies.” What experts mean by...

From this morning’s Wall Street Journal: Unknown gunmen opened fire Friday on a bus carrying...

The world is divided into two camps by the answer to this question: Is human...