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October 2016

October 21, 2016
Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition both formally teach the doctrine of Mary as "ever-Virgin," meaning...
October 17, 2016
Try this: Scan the Bible (in vain) for any sustained, intellectual interest in the so-called...
October 14, 2016
This crazy election year has done at least one thing: It has raised to public...
October 12, 2016
The Evangelical experience is so fascinating that even anthropologists long to look into it. That's...
October 04, 2016
What is the role of the church in the larger society? What does it mean...
October 03, 2016
Evangelicalism is slowly changing. But you have to look very closely. That 'close looking' is...

September 2016

September 26, 2016
What do Skittles have to do with Syrians, and with Trolleys? In my Ethics class...
September 22, 2016
In my Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism course today, we'll be talking about the history of slavery...
September 16, 2016
Advertisers know how to tap into our deepest anxieties. For better or worse, they know...
September 14, 2016
Looking at what so often goes by the name "evangelical" or "evangelicalism" today, you would...
September 12, 2016
It's often said that "all translations are interpretations." Scot McKnight draws our attention to the...
September 07, 2016
One of the key turning points for me in my shift toward a more universalist...
September 06, 2016
My colleague shared a quote with me recently that is blog-post worthy. It encapsulates the...
September 05, 2016
Last Fall I taught a course called Death, Evil, and Alienation, at United Theological Seminary...
September 04, 2016
Ever heard of "Christian realism"? The notion is attributed to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, whose writings...
September 01, 2016
Huge news regarding the state of Alzheimer's research was just announced on the Telegraph's Science...

August 2016

August 31, 2016
For many years of my life, "universalism" (universal salvation) seemed like a bad word. It...
August 30, 2016
I love this quote by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, from Multitude: War and Democracy...
August 23, 2016
Following the death of Denmark's bishop Jacob Mynster, in 1854, Kierkegaard wrote this brief reflection:...
August 19, 2016
Why Can't Love Be Coercive? I wrote a brief reflection recently, on Tom Oord's very...
August 15, 2016
The following is an interview with Sam Chan (Ph.D., M.D.), an Aussie theologian, preacher, and...
August 11, 2016
The NY Times posted an interactive graph recently (updated today) suggesting that the probability of...
August 11, 2016
I was raised conservative evangelical (Southern Baptist). I went to a conservative evangelical seminary. If...
August 05, 2016
Remember the big story last year about Dan Price, the millennial super-cool CEO of Gravity...
August 04, 2016
Fall is just around the corner. "Back to school" specials are on the shelves. So...

July 2016

July 29, 2016
America is notoriously and incurably religious. And political. Most Americans, it seems, like our politics...
July 25, 2016
It's not a sexy title, but these aren't pretty times. For the past four or...
July 21, 2016
In contrast to the age of revolution, which took action, the present age is an...
July 19, 2016
I'm late on the hot-take, but so it goes. I was glad to see this...
July 15, 2016
I just came across a great little book, called Political Theology: Contemporary Challenges and Directions....
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