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January 2017

January 12, 2017
The Anglican cathedral in Glasgow, in its interfaith zeal, invited a Muslim to read from...
January 11, 2017
Frederich Buechner is a novelist and writer that I really appreciate, but his definition of...
January 11, 2017
Meryl Streep took the occasion of her lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes to...
January 11, 2017
Not only did the Russians hack into the Democrats' e-mails in an attempt to influence...
January 10, 2017
More from David Zahl., who distinguishes between the big-L "Law" (of God) and the little-l...
January 10, 2017
Not long ago, conservatives condemned Wikileaks leaker Julian Assange.  After all, Assange exposed U.S. intelligence...
January 10, 2017
Imagine trying to look something up in the Bible if it didn't have chapters and...
January 09, 2017
Luther-influenced Anglican David Zahl has a brilliant article in the latest Christianity Today about Luther's distinction...
January 09, 2017
Donald Trump and his supporters have been dismissive of U. S. Intelligence claims that the...
January 09, 2017
Nat Hentoff, 91, has died.  The jazz critic for the Village Voice, Hentoff described himself...
January 06, 2017
Contrary to the "prosperity gospel" and other theologies of glory, negative experiences can also have...
January 06, 2017
Definition of epiphany capitalized :  January 6 observed as a church festival in commemoration of...
January 06, 2017
I have long said that we shouldn't look for analogies between our cultural problems and...
January 06, 2017
Democrats strategizing over how to overcome their recent defeats now have a plan:  go left....
January 05, 2017
Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker has written a fascinating piece on Bach's theology....
January 05, 2017
Why do we often take celebrity deaths so hard?  According to Rev. Travis Berg, citing...
January 05, 2017
The Chicago Cubs didn't really win the World Series over the Cleveland Indians.  Actually, both...
January 04, 2017
Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, according to a European study.  In...
January 04, 2017
Michael Wear is a pro-life evangelical Christian who was a staffer for Barack Obama, helping...
January 04, 2017
Some people invoke the current year as a sufficient argument.  As in, "I can't believe...
January 03, 2017
Renowned film director Martin Scorsese talks about vocation in a recent interview.  He didn't make...
January 03, 2017
Russia does it with RT.   Arabs do it with Al Jazeera.   Now, as of...
January 03, 2017
I know you are sick of holidays and want to get back to normality, but I...
January 02, 2017
The Gospel reading for yesterday, commemorating the Circumcision and Name of Jesus, was Luke 2:21,...
January 02, 2017
499 years after the Reformation, 1691 years after the Council of Nicaea, theological disputes and...
January 02, 2017
One of my New Year's Eve rituals is to read Dave Barry's annual Year in...

December 2016

December 31, 2016
Thank you to all of my readers for being part of this blog last year....
December 31, 2016
"And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus,...
December 31, 2016
The new year will mark some important anniversaries.  The biggest will be the 500th anniversary...
December 30, 2016
Now it is time to look forward, to speculate about what this new year will...
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