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August 2017

August 25, 2017
With Hurricane Harvey barreling down on the Texas coast, with Galvestonians and Houstonians making their...
August 18, 2017
In the minute-by-minute debacle of modern American politics, it is easy to miss something important....

July 2017

July 20, 2017
Every year, without fail, we sang the chorus Jacob’s Ladder at church camp. Sung by...
July 13, 2017
Priscilla and I had three miscarriages before we had our daughter Chloe and son Jeremy....
July 06, 2017
When I was a kid, my older sisters would say, “He’s useless.” No. That’s not...

June 2017

June 30, 2017
When our son Jeremy was just a kid, he often set himself up in the...
June 22, 2017
The lectionary last week ... Wait! Did I start a blog post with the word lectionary? How...
June 21, 2017
I'm reading through Jimmy Dunn's thick, beautiful, provocative book, Jesus and the Spirit. Enthralled, I've...
June 02, 2017
Normally Pentecost has its own color, red, to remember the fire that hovered over Jesus’...

March 2017

March 04, 2017
I saw this photograph today from Parsons School of Design in a New York Times...

February 2017

February 17, 2017
In 1978, it became clear to my director of studies at Christ’s College—a little-known, shy,...
February 14, 2017
What's the most cherished verse of the Bible? For many Christians, it has to be...
February 13, 2016
So Daniel Kirk has set the terms of the discussion in the wrong way. He...
February 10, 2016
Would someone want to join me here, in my interior, in my soul, and cozy...

December 2015

December 21, 2015
We walked in, waited a bit in line, looking at this strange species of human:...

September 2015

September 24, 2015
Monday through Wednesday find me buried in classes and teaching, so I didn’t receive word...
September 09, 2015
What then characterizes a Spirit-filled church? Not the swaying or swagger of people in motion....

August 2015

August 12, 2015
Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians doesn’t contain, then, what we hope it promises: a...

June 2015

June 09, 2015
Why solve with community effort what could otherwise be resolved by a gunshot to the...
June 01, 2015
The pope and I agree. He's in very good company! (Okay, I'll admit, it goes...

May 2015

May 19, 2015
In the days prior to that first Pentecost, Jesus’ followers were huddled together, gathered around...
May 07, 2015
What happens when you cross a top notch New Testament scholar, a genuinely funny guy,...

February 2015

February 25, 2015
Guest essay by Priscilla Pope-Levison Around the turn of the nineteenth century, Emma Ray and...
February 17, 2015
“Can o’ corn!” my high school baseball coach, Coach Hogan, used to quip whenever one...
February 16, 2015
Deborah Arca, director of All Things Patheos, from my perspective, asked the question, Why does...
February 08, 2015
If you, like me, feel you’ve still got much more to learn—much more to experience,...
February 08, 2015
At this point in the Bible—about the seventeenth word—God hasn’t yet dipped a ladle into...

January 2015

January 30, 2015
This morning I watched, in a half-embarrassed sort of way, while Nicola Menzie, of  The Christian Post,...
January 26, 2015
What struck me in the aftermath was how much—I think this was genuine—the Seahawk players...
January 20, 2015
The real test of a community is not its immediate reaction to grief -- but...
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