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December 2014

December 23, 2014
Christians have a history of getting our relationship with Jews all tangled up in self-interest....
December 17, 2014
Last week, I gave Christian Piatt a hard time. Why? Because I thought he oversimplified...
December 10, 2014
You see? There was no single Jewish expectation for the messiah at the time of...

November 2014

November 13, 2014
You know what I wanted to do this afternoon as I walked out the door...

October 2014

October 25, 2014
He moved with uncharacteristic grace and unassuming charm—but with a tenacious impulse toward inclusion and...
October 24, 2014
Two Books I came to Assisi with two books, or parts of books in hand:...
October 15, 2014
I grew up in a Catholic neighborhood, with signs of Saint Francis everywhere. There he...
October 13, 2014
I read this book about St. Francis of Assisi all wrong. I should have read...

September 2014

September 17, 2014
Tucked into the second page of the Seattle Times under the heading, Newsline, and subheading,...
September 04, 2014
Yesterday, Anderson Cooper interviewed Nancy Writebol and her husband. Nancy is an American ebola survivor...

August 2014

August 11, 2014
So here's what I suggest. Mark Driscoll should take some of his royalties and hire...

July 2014

July 23, 2014
But that shy boy has, at least for now, at least last night, something that...

June 2014

June 26, 2014
When I put these together, I saw something glaring. My actions were exactly backwards, a...
June 12, 2014
Last night was the memorial service, not just for Paul Lee, who died on Thursday,...
June 11, 2014
My colleague, Rick Steele, wrote this essay for TIME magazine online in the aftermath of the shooting...
June 10, 2014
As faculty, staff, and students grapple with the goings on at SPU, we discover gems....
June 09, 2014
On the day of the shooting at SPU, the religion editor at Huffington Post asked...
June 05, 2014
We can sneer at the Pentecostals, given the aberrations and excesses of their faith, but...

May 2014

May 21, 2014
Their giving wasn’t determined by how much was needed but by how much they had...

April 2014

April 25, 2014
But there are other tears to be wept in The Family. In an eerie parallel...
April 16, 2014
As I read Psalm 55, I couldn't shake the rhythm of betrayal in the gospel...
April 10, 2014
Then on Thursday night, in a nondescript room in the Columbus Ohio convention center, I...

March 2014

March 31, 2014
We're more than halfway through Lent. It began on Ash Wednesday, March 5th. It ends...
March 17, 2014
These largely unsung entrepreneurial women evangelists resolved to settle down and build institutions, often financing...
March 10, 2014
Two decades ago, as I did my class prep for an introductory lecture on American...

February 2014

February 14, 2014
That rundown Ramada Inn is where she first slipped her hand along the back of...

January 2014

January 19, 2014
Regardless of your point of view—Jewish or Christian, secular or spiritual, liberal or conservative—it’s invariably...
January 06, 2014
This sense of yearning — or is it inadequacy? — for something new, something spectacular,...

December 2013

December 12, 2013
If you want an actual model for receiving the guidance of the holy spirit, look...

November 2013

November 28, 2013
The Greek word, eucharistia, from which we get the English word, eucharist—the breaking of bread...
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