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May 2016

May 10, 2016
“If you see a Buddha on the road, kill him.” What about Jesus? I got...
May 04, 2016
The Republican Party is coming to terms with the near inevitable after Donald Trump’s landmark...

April 2016

April 30, 2016
In his essay “The Weight of Glory” in the book by the same title, C....
April 28, 2016
Renowned paleontologist and devout Roman Catholic Prof. Peter Dodson from the University of Pennsylvania spoke...
April 18, 2016
Gentrification benefits “urban pioneers,” but what about those who are native urbanites? Yes, clean streets,...
April 12, 2016
Mental illness is not a sin. So why the shame? According to Lea Seigen Shinraku,...
April 08, 2016
Like messiahs, monsters bridge divides, including those between disciplines. As David Skal claims, “Since it...
April 05, 2016
The story is told of a logician/mathematician at a university where Karl Barth once taught,...

March 2016

March 31, 2016
The Bible calls us to celebrate God’s goodness in the creation. The Christian community just...
March 29, 2016
In a March 1st New York Times article, “What Wouldn’t Jesus Do?” Peter Wehner writes...
March 22, 2016
I like bunnies, but I prefer lions and lambs at Easter. After all, the Bible...
March 15, 2016
What do religious people do when they have questions about science? Many of them ask...
March 10, 2016
Why are we often in such a hurry? As the old saying goes, “Where’s the...
March 04, 2016
What does it mean to be a Christian innovator in the 21st century? Attend the...

February 2016

February 28, 2016
Do you know the story of Malala? She is an eighteen year old Pakistani teenager,...
February 26, 2016
A White friend of mine from Oregon met with African American civil rights leader Tom...
February 25, 2016
***Warning Possible Spoilers Ahead for the Movie Eddy the Eagle***   There are so many things...
February 22, 2016
According to Vocabulary.com, “To trump is to outrank or defeat someone or something, often in...
February 17, 2016
Many people find tensions among Christian groups exhausting. No doubt, some were able to take...
February 15, 2016
Can we transfer consciousness to synthetic bodies without the move proving problematic, even catastrophic? The...
February 08, 2016
In a recent post, I noted E. O. Wilson’s rejection of the idea of possibly...
February 01, 2016
Who gets left behind if we must abandon earth as a species for space? Now...

January 2016

January 29, 2016
Do rocks on the Moon and Mars have inherent rights? And what about Aliens, who...
January 25, 2016
This was originally posted over at Northwest Dharma News, we are very grateful for the...
January 25, 2016
Think about it, if Jesus didn’t pass out when he ascended to heaven, what does...
January 21, 2016
WARNING: Contains Possible Spoilers for Disney's upcoming movie, The Finest Hours! Is it easy to lose...
January 18, 2016
In his sermon critiquing the Vietnam War, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. noted a strange...
January 15, 2016
Our deities make the world go round. They also make us go round the worlds...
January 11, 2016
It has been have argued that a concealed affair can save one's marriage and that...
January 07, 2016
SPOILER ALERT FOR THE NEW MOVIE, "THE REVENANT"!   I went to a movie theater in...
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