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This review was previously published in Sociology of Religion, but since so few read journals, here it...

Several have wondered how can I stay on Patheos, since Patheos just invited Mark Driscoll...

Previously published in The Seattle Times Special to The Seattle Times IN religious circles, many...

Texts for this Sermon: Genesis 16:1-16; Genesis 21:1-21. On occasion I get asked: "Why are...

Recently I’ve been thinking that in Evangelical culture in the Pacific Northwest there is a...

(Originally published in The Immanent Frame, April 3, 2017).   A few years ago, I reviewed David...

This blog was inspired by Ted Koppel’s take down of Sean Hannity on TV. Koppel...

The movie, The Shack received an 18 percent rating from the “top” critics. They say...

We go to a church near us; we can get there in five minutes. We...

An important message from my alma mater, Princeton Theological Seminary, no bastion of liberalism, but...

Guest Blogger: Brooke Anne Wellman As a white person, it is difficult to write about...

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that...

For the last three years I’ve moderated the Veritas Forum at my University. And each...

One of my favorite authors, Sherman Alexie, had a wonderful tweet after the election: “Anyone...

Leonard Cohen, who died the day after Trump’s victory in the presidential election, introduced his...

I'm with the nasty women for lots of reasons! I'm reading John Caputo's The Weakness...

These are dark days folks. Everyone is just a bit down. (Thank God for the...

Words can heal and they can kill. These days we are in a word storm....

I just watched a beautiful film piece on Rob Bell in The New Yorker Presents,...

Trips of a lifetime are etched into our memories, this one for different reasons than...

The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.  The...

I’ve written and thought on American civil religion for some time now. Inevitably, our American...

Matthew Sutton’s American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism is beautifully written, thoroughly documented and,...

The irony of the Orlando massacre is that it was done only a mile away...

A few years ago in speaking to a group of Pentecostal preachers, at one point,...

I asked my Jackson School International Studies class called, "Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World,"...

I’ve been thinking and writing about religious violence for some time now. Along with many...

I was reminded recently that Nikos Kazantzakis’ 1955 The Last Temptation of Christ has Jesus,...

Rob Bell is a friend. I wrote a book about him. We spent something on...