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June 2017

June 02, 2017
Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement is probably the most...
June 01, 2017
My colleague, Dr. Demian Wheeler, delivered the "charge to the graduates" at the recent commencement...

April 2017

April 20, 2017
The primary reason people give for going to church may surprise you: Good preaching and...
April 19, 2017
Not long ago, I assumed my spot in my favorite coffee shop to work on...
April 15, 2017
The resurrection revealed that Jesus of Nazareth was the divine Son of God. Wolfhart Pannenberg...
April 14, 2017
Good Friday reflections on the cross usually focus on the significance of Christ's death for...
April 06, 2017
In Matthew 16, Simon (soon to be renamed "Peter") makes his famous declaration that Jesus...
April 03, 2017
I recently attended an ATS (Association of Theological Schools) meeting of mid-career faculty where we...

March 2017

March 31, 2017
I haven't blogged much lately. The reason for that is I've been finishing a draft...
March 12, 2017
"Intelligent Design" is a theory, a theology really, that claims that the complexity, beauty, order,...

February 2017

February 08, 2017
I opened up CNN.com today to discover this huge headline: "Nevertheless, She Persisted" These were...
February 07, 2017
A few weeks ago I went to see Silence, the Scorcese film (based on the...
February 06, 2017
Donald Trump's ban on Muslim immigrants from 7 predominantly Muslim countries (none of which he...
February 04, 2017
A Spanish nun, Sister Lucia Caram, recently shocked the Catholic world when she suggested, on...

January 2017

January 22, 2017
What should be the role for theology in public discourse? And, how theological should theology be?...
January 20, 2017
With the inauguration of Donald Trump, the Religious Right hopes for a "new Jesus movement."...
January 07, 2017
On Epiphany Sunday, Christians celebrate all sorts of events related to the stories surrounding the...
January 06, 2017
I joined with many other Christian theologians and other faith leaders in signing a petition...
January 05, 2017
We're living in a post-truth society now, they say. This is what all those conservative...

December 2016

December 23, 2016
Virgin births are not nearly as miraculous as you think. They happen fairly regularly. Well,...
December 22, 2016
For those of you brave souls, crying out in the wilderness, who still want to...
December 15, 2016
Here's Molly Worthen, writing about the conflict over biblical authority, and in particular the doctrine...
December 11, 2016
Yes, indeed, pietism (properly understood, not simply in the sense of abstaining from dancing and...
December 10, 2016
Augustine's theology of "original sin" has dominated and corrupted western theology for thousands of years....
December 02, 2016
This post is a contribution to the Patheos Book Club discussion of Thomas Moore's The...
December 01, 2016
Molly Worthen's The Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism, is a...

November 2016

November 21, 2016
White evangelicals used to care a lot about whether political candidates' moral character matched their...
November 11, 2016
The following is a guest post by Silas Morgan. Silas earned his PhD from the...
November 09, 2016
Like many of you, I couldn't believe what I was watching last night on CNN,...

October 2016

October 26, 2016
What's up with those evangelicals? Is it the end of the world?   Matthew Sutton's...
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