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March 2016

March 14, 2016
Wow, not long ago I wrote on Why I’m Not Watching the Super Bowl. Today, the...

February 2016

February 05, 2016
The Seahawks Aren’t Playing. Okay, I like my Hawks, though even here, the reality of...

January 2016

January 29, 2016
I’ve been thinking about this concept of bliss my whole life. What would it be...

December 2015

December 18, 2015
First, three confessions: 1. Elizabeth was my graduate student in the MA Comparative Religion Program...

July 2015

July 29, 2015
Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of...

April 2015

April 25, 2015
(This is a sermon I gave for Bill Harper’s retirement on April 24, 2015. Bill...
April 18, 2015
This post was originally published in Christ and Cascadia, I am sharing it here by permission. I've...

March 2015

March 19, 2015
I have always been suspicious of the concept of an Emerging Church Movement (ECM)—it always...

June 2014

June 24, 2014
Scripture text: Colossians 1: 15-23: Hymn to Christ’s work We spend most of our lives making...
June 16, 2014
June 15, 2014 FIRST READING JOB 38:1-11; 42:1-6 GOSPEL READING JOHN 1:29-34 You know I...
June 10, 2014
Last week I was invited to be the community speaker for the local high school...

May 2014

May 27, 2014
The Last Acceptable Prejudice hit a chord, not only with religiously conservative folks but with...
May 19, 2014
I don’t often go to campus talks at my university. I don’t go because if...
May 15, 2014
Around the time that Bruce Lee reached the height of his Hong Kong cinematic career,...
May 14, 2014
My post-doc, Justin K.H. Tse, is guest posting for me this week, sharing his fascinating...

March 2014

March 19, 2014
I wish I read Jeff Keuss’s brilliant book, Blur: A New Paradigm for Understanding Youth...

January 2014

January 30, 2014
I suppose I can be accused of being biased on the Super Bowl. I live...

November 2013

November 04, 2013
I wrote a book on Rob Bell, and for many reasons, its been a blessing...

October 2013

October 28, 2013
"Oh... it's gonna to be hard to say goodbye." My wife quoted to me Dorothy's...
October 16, 2013
It’s a fascinating time in American history, religion and politics. I recently wrote that it’s...
October 09, 2013
Every class is different. You only realize this from experience. Every classroom has its own...
October 01, 2013
To my liberal friends, and I'm not even sure I'm a liberal or a progressive....

September 2013

September 24, 2013
Recently, a student, who has taken multiple courses from me, told me that when evangelical...
September 11, 2013
The other night the President argued: "America is not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen...
September 07, 2013
Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Studies and graduate of West Point, whose son died serving...

August 2013

August 28, 2013
In a question about whether there was any situation in which a bombing campaign would...
August 22, 2013
  Religion in practice is always more beautiful than religion in words. In fact, from my...
August 20, 2013
As some of you know I play Peter Pan part time, serving our church youth...
August 12, 2013
I received a lot of interest in my last post on “How Hedonism Harms Us.”...
August 06, 2013
Before the last presidential election a group of liberal clergy came to me and asked...
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