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Trayvon and George: A Tale of Two Americas
Emerging America owns both Trayvon and George as their beloved sons, their Cain and Abel,...
July 08, 2013
Q&R: The Word “Marriage”
Here's the Question from a Reader: Recently read your book another kind of Christianity and...
July 02, 2013
Lisa Sharon Harper Gets it Right on Affirmative Action
According to a February 2013 Brandeis University Institute on Assets and Social Policy study, the...
June 2013
June 03, 2013
An Open Letter to Worship Songwriters
Several years ago, I wrote an open letter for worship songwriters and leaders. It appeared...
May 2013
May 21, 2013
Q&R: Christ and His Death
Here's the Question: Hi Brian. Great work you doing, Bro. Hang in there. A question...
May 01, 2013
Q&R: Bible Study Materials for a 7-Year-Old?
Here's the Q: I am most of the way through "Why did....cross the road" and loving it....
April 2013
April 19, 2013
Bible Study: Does Hebrews support blood atonement?
I noticed that my friend Tony Jones is frustrated with Hebrews (an anonymous epistle in the...
April 09, 2013
Q&R: Law is Love?
The "righteousness" that must "surpass that of the scribes and Pharisees" if we are to...
March 2013
March 31, 2013
Joining the Resurrection
Easter celebrates not only the resurrection of one man, but the resurrection of the whole...
March 28, 2013
Drones and Good Friday
One of my Good Friday disciplines is to remember Jesus' words, "Don't weep for me,...
March 19, 2013
Why I Support Rob Bell’s Stance on Gay Marriage
March 18, 2013
Q & R: Trinity – A stumbling block for unity?
Here's the Question: In your book Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the...
March 05, 2013
Lent: Maybe It’s About Adding, Not Subtracting
Adding something good to your life during Lent -- say, reading the gospels -- may...
March 04, 2013
Q&R: Faith in Public Life
How do you distinguish between those moral issues that ought to be confronted in the...
February 2013
February 26, 2013
Q&R: Church Buildings, Yes or No?
If I were planting a church today, I might focus on quarterly weekend retreats and...
February 06, 2013
Q&R: Help on Biblical Violence
Here's the Q: I bet you get tons of emails, and I've never written one...
February 01, 2013
Hell. Yes?
I remember when I first began to feel that I would have to do some...
January 2013
January 28, 2013
Reading the Bible in 2013: A Special Opportunity
Some people read the Bible to justify violence - even to present God as violent....
January 22, 2013
Thoughts on the Obama Presidency
As many readers know, I was actively involved in the 2008 presidential campaign - for...
January 17, 2013
A Benediction for the Inauguration
I was invited to compose a 100-word benediction suitable for the US presidential inauguration, along...
January 16, 2013
Courageous Words from Steve Chalke
The same day Kentucky sage Wendell Berry went public with a strongly worded statement about...
November 2012
November 06, 2012
What I Appreciate about Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Independents, and Greens …
All parties have their weaknesses, to be sure, some quite glaring. But all have virtues...
October 2012
October 17, 2012
Why We’re Leaving Church: A Report from the Nones
The same day news outlets around the country carried a notable headline -- "Protestants Lose...
October 02, 2012
Responding to the Patheos Roundtable
Recently, Patheos hosted an interfaith roundtable on my new book, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the...
April 2012
April 08, 2012
Joining the Resurrection
It's not accidental, nor is it insignificant, that Easter occurred on a Sunday, the first...
February 2012
February 21, 2012
Lent: Maybe It’s About Adding, Not Subtracting
I sometimes envy people who follow tradition without asking questions. They gain benefits from their...
February 12, 2012
The President’s “Phony” Theology
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum accused President Obama of a "phony theology" over the weekend,...
February 01, 2012
The Beloved Community Vs. The Beloved Economy
You know how synchronicities happen. It's not just the song you're listening to or the...
January 2012
January 09, 2012
After the Worship Wars: Christian Identity and Worship
I've been thinking about Christian identity a lot lately. An election year makes such thinking...
December 2011
December 08, 2011
Against “Taking Things Back:” Rethinking the OWS Slogan
A funny thing happened on the way to the protest. I was talking with a...
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