By Jeff Fulmer I’m ready for this election to be over. As with most hotly contested campaigns, it’s been full of half-truths and outright lies. And, while I have my opinion on the source of the vast majority of deception, the casual observer simply sees partisan bickering and endless gamesmanship. The result can be a cynical electorate who loses interest in the whole political process. I’ve noticed many Christians who seem to fall into this category. Already suspicious of politicians, they... Read more

After spending the last two years exploring a non-partisan Christian ethic of politics in the column and book called Faithful Citizenship, it feels, frankly, bizarre to have to choose a candidate for president now that the election is upon us. But when I go into the early voting booth this week in Texas, despite the fact that my vote will not matter at all in this reddest of red states, I will be casting my vote for President Barack Obama.... Read more

“Life is that gift from God. And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen…” Indiana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock Republican US Senate candidate Richard Mourdock recently declared his belief that if a woman conceives through rape, that conception was God’s intention. I doubt Mourdock intended to open an important public theological discussion about the degree to which God wills what happens in the world,... Read more

I offer here a categorization and listing of ways that people think about God. It’s far from complete.  Some categories overlap with each other.  I’ve been thinking a lot about the subject lately, in the course of reading Nicolas of Cusa from the 15th century and Charles Hartshorne from the 20th, theologians who had strikingly similar views of divinity in some respects.  I offer this list in order to stimulate my own thinking, and hopefully yours, about the tremendous variety... Read more

By Clay Morgan Whoa. Along with other non-family friendly phrases, that was the general reaction from millions of people after watching the last three minutes of the season three premier of AMC’s The Walking Dead which pretty much lunged at us through television screens like a man swinging a hatchet. I’m not going to spoil anything major but in case you didn’t already know, this show is not for the faint of heart. More on the new episode in a moment. One... Read more

Should we talk about politics in Church? What do we make of the latest Pew Report on the rising numbers of the “religiously unaffiliated?” Why is Progressive Christianity still so invisible to the general population? These were some of the questions I asked Brian McLaren and Nadia Bolz-Weber in the first part of my interview with these progressive Christian luminaries this week. Brian was here in Denver promoting his important new book, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed... Read more