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December 2014

December 19, 2014
You may be familiar with the Christmas carol “Away in a Manger” and the biblical...
December 16, 2014
The following post may contain spoilers. If you have not seen Hunger Games or have...
December 12, 2014
One of the greatest honors I have received is to have been given the responsibility...
December 08, 2014
We often take breathing for granted, unless we are like Eric Garner. His dying words...
December 05, 2014
The other day I asked my students in theology why God became a human rather...
December 03, 2014
I watched Interstellar over the weekend and reflected on some of the reviews. My favorite...

November 2014

November 30, 2014
Jesus came to forgive world debt. We find Jesus making this claim in Luke 4:16-30,...
November 29, 2014
Is humanity the “biological boot loader for digital superintelligence,” as billionaire Elon Musk fears? The...
November 25, 2014
Black lives matter. If Black lives don’t matter, no one’s life matters. I spoke on...
November 20, 2014
Not many of us are fixated with Abraham or allegiance to Israel. Jesus’ audience in...
November 18, 2014
Are opponents to cloning racist? This question came to my mind while watching the science-fiction...
November 13, 2014
The 1999 film American Beauty captured the imaginations of multitudes of Americans. The movie engages...
November 11, 2014
Kierkegaard is good for cleaning out the system. He's like prune juice for the soul....
November 07, 2014
Nobody is scum or refuse. Every human has inherent dignity and worth as someone created...
November 03, 2014
Many religious people are suspicious of significant issues in science. Many people—religious and non-religious alike—reflect...

October 2014

October 29, 2014
An Evangelical Environmentalist is not an oxymoron. He happens to be a dear friend of...
October 27, 2014
Ben Affleck recently engaged in a heated exchange with Bill Maher and Sam Harris on...
October 20, 2014
It is well known that Evangelical Christianity has often experienced a difficult relationship with science....
October 20, 2014
A key question today in discussions of mind and matter is: can we explain consciousness...
October 18, 2014
Holiness involves the humane treatment of animals. This is not a politically correct statement, but...
October 16, 2014
  Holiness is relational. Behavioral solutions don't solve relational problems. Otherwise, God could say "Take...
October 13, 2014
For all of orthodox Christianity's differences in belief from the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Buddhism, we...
October 11, 2014
Do we become just by doing just things or by being made just? This is...
October 10, 2014
Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Public Square on Remembering Our Dead: Ancestors, Rituals,...
October 02, 2014
Zen Buddhist priest Kyogen Carlson (1948-2014) was a bridge-builder. He built bridges of understanding and...

September 2014

September 30, 2014
What’s behind Jesus’ mask? Jesus. Jesus is not a mode that a divine “nameless, faceless,...
September 27, 2014
What is the problem of our human condition? What is the solution? Many views of...
September 22, 2014
Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) does not mean and should not entail solitary confinement of the...
September 17, 2014
We are on trial. Unlike Franz Kafka’s Trial, the divine Judge revealed in the Bible...
September 15, 2014
People often wrongly connect Darwin’s doctrine of the survival of the biological fittest, including reproduction,...
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