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April 2016

April 06, 2016
When my son and I were hiking through Galilee in October 2009, a burly Palestinian...
April 04, 2016
I was looking out the window of a train the other day, speeding ever-so-smoothly across...

March 2016

March 20, 2016
Where is God in this crazy political season?  Why does he seem hidden as ISIS...
March 15, 2016
Garry Kasparov, the great chess master, lived under absolute socialism in the Soviet Union, and...
March 13, 2016
Some would say so, especially in this election season. Its purpose, they say, is to...
March 10, 2016
Immigration is the issue du jour.  Most of us think (despite what pollsters shout) that it...
March 03, 2016
Jesus famously said in Matt. 7, "Do not judge" (v. 1). Does that mean Christians...
March 01, 2016
Most likely. The Greek word (kraspedon) that is translated in most Bibles as the “fringe” of...

February 2016

February 19, 2016
Barbara Gauthier is perhaps the best orthodox guide these days to happenings in the Anglican...
February 12, 2016
Here is a fascinating interview with Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist at NYU, who describes the...
February 08, 2016
On several recent trips to Israel an old friend Sara has come along.  She has...
February 02, 2016
It has been long believed by many, perhaps most, Christians that after 33 AD God...

January 2016

January 28, 2016
I mean well-known evangelicals who have declared their political allegiance  to Donald Trump. Such as...
January 20, 2016
Last week I was invited by NPR (national) to participate in an on-air discussion of...
January 08, 2016
Today in the Wall Street Journal Boston University professor of religion Stephen Prothero has a...
January 05, 2016
I mourn the death of Michael Wyschogrod on December 17.  He was one of the...
January 03, 2016
Last month 28 Orthodox rabbis released a statement that God has willed the birth of...
January 01, 2016
If there is one article that sheds more light--in a short space--on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

December 2015

December 31, 2015
"How can I feel the feeling of God when I don't? "I feel like a...
December 30, 2015
"Pollyannish" is a word for people who don't want to hear the ugly facts of...
December 24, 2015
Friends, I am delighted to share with you on this Christmas Eve a witty and...
December 20, 2015
Yesterday I posted a very brief comment on the flap at Wheaton College over the...
December 19, 2015
Most evangelicals have been told that simply following tradition in spirituality is wrong, and that...
December 19, 2015
When she said Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Here is the Christianity Today...
December 19, 2015
Top scholars will gather in Los Angeles on January 18 to discuss the growing threat...
December 14, 2015
It is often claimed today that Israel’s continued occupation of the West Bank is a...
December 11, 2015
Why not? Because radical Muslims have been doing this to Christians for years, and not...
December 10, 2015
Good post yesterday by Richard Land with several important points. "Islam is not monolithic. The...
December 08, 2015
Even a casual reader knows that the Middle East is boiling over, and that by...
December 07, 2015
This is the key question. We can talk all we want about moderate vs radical...
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