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October 2017

October 26, 2017
This review was previously published in Sociology of Religion, but since so few read journals, here it...
October 21, 2017
Several have wondered how can I stay on Patheos, since Patheos just invited Mark Driscoll...
October 05, 2017
Previously published in The Seattle Times Special to The Seattle Times IN religious circles, many...

June 2017

June 29, 2017
Texts for this Sermon: Genesis 16:1-16; Genesis 21:1-21. On occasion I get asked: "Why are...

April 2017

April 09, 2017
Recently I’ve been thinking that in Evangelical culture in the Pacific Northwest there is a...
April 03, 2017
(Originally published in The Immanent Frame, April 3, 2017).   A few years ago, I reviewed David...

March 2017

March 27, 2017
This blog was inspired by Ted Koppel’s take down of Sean Hannity on TV. Koppel...
March 20, 2017
The movie, The Shack received an 18 percent rating from the “top” critics. They say...
March 05, 2017
We go to a church near us; we can get there in five minutes. We...

February 2017

February 27, 2017
An important message from my alma mater, Princeton Theological Seminary, no bastion of liberalism, but...
February 21, 2017
Guest Blogger: Brooke Anne Wellman As a white person, it is difficult to write about...
February 21, 2017
February 06, 2017
"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that...

January 2017

January 30, 2017
For the last three years I’ve moderated the Veritas Forum at my University. And each...

November 2016

November 15, 2016
One of my favorite authors, Sherman Alexie, had a wonderful tweet after the election: “Anyone...
November 11, 2016
Leonard Cohen, who died the day after Trump’s victory in the presidential election, introduced his...
November 08, 2016
I'm with the nasty women for lots of reasons! I'm reading John Caputo's The Weakness...

October 2016

October 28, 2016
These are dark days folks. Everyone is just a bit down. (Thank God for the...
October 15, 2016
Words can heal and they can kill. These days we are in a word storm....
October 05, 2016
I just watched a beautiful film piece on Rob Bell in The New Yorker Presents,...

September 2016

September 13, 2016
Trips of a lifetime are etched into our memories, this one for different reasons than...

July 2016

July 08, 2016
The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.  The...
July 05, 2016
I’ve written and thought on American civil religion for some time now. Inevitably, our American...

June 2016

June 24, 2016
Matthew Sutton’s American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism is beautifully written, thoroughly documented and,...
June 14, 2016
The irony of the Orlando massacre is that it was done only a mile away...

April 2016

April 27, 2016
A few years ago in speaking to a group of Pentecostal preachers, at one point,...
April 10, 2016
I asked my Jackson School International Studies class called, "Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World,"...

March 2016

March 25, 2016
I’ve been thinking and writing about religious violence for some time now. Along with many...
March 22, 2016
I was reminded recently that Nikos Kazantzakis’ 1955 The Last Temptation of Christ has Jesus,...
March 15, 2016
Rob Bell is a friend. I wrote a book about him. We spent something on...
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