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Emerging America owns both Trayvon and George as their beloved sons, their Cain and Abel,...

Here's the Question from a Reader: Recently read your book another kind of Christianity and...

According to a February 2013 Brandeis University Institute on Assets and Social Policy study, the...

Several years ago, I wrote an open letter for worship songwriters and leaders. It appeared...

Here's the Question: Hi Brian. Great work you doing, Bro. Hang in there. A question...

Here's the Q: I am most of the way through "Why did....cross the road" and loving it....

I noticed that my friend Tony Jones is frustrated with Hebrews (an anonymous epistle in the...

The "righteousness" that must "surpass that of the scribes and Pharisees" if we are to...

Easter celebrates not only the resurrection of one man, but the resurrection of the whole...

One of my Good Friday disciplines is to remember Jesus' words, "Don't weep for me,...

Here's the Question: In your book Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the...

Adding something good to your life during Lent -- say, reading the gospels -- may...

How do you distinguish between those moral issues that ought to be confronted in the...

If I were planting a church today, I might focus on quarterly weekend retreats and...

Here's the Q: I bet you get tons of emails, and I've never written one...

I remember when I first began to feel that I would have to do some...

Some people read the Bible to justify violence - even to present God as violent....

As many readers know, I was actively involved in the 2008 presidential campaign - for...

I was invited to compose a 100-word benediction suitable for the US presidential inauguration, along...

The same day Kentucky sage Wendell Berry went public with a strongly worded statement about...

All parties have their weaknesses, to be sure, some quite glaring. But all have virtues...

The same day news outlets around the country carried a notable headline -- "Protestants Lose...

Recently, Patheos hosted an interfaith roundtable on my new book, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the...

It's not accidental, nor is it insignificant, that Easter occurred on a Sunday, the first...

I sometimes envy people who follow tradition without asking questions. They gain benefits from their...

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum accused President Obama of a "phony theology" over the weekend,...

You know how synchronicities happen. It's not just the song you're listening to or the...

I've been thinking about Christian identity a lot lately. An election year makes such thinking...

A funny thing happened on the way to the protest. I was talking with a...