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May 2016

May 17, 2016
This post is my contribution to the Patheos Book Club on Called to Community: The...
May 13, 2016
Russell Moore just wrote an irresponsible article called, "The Real Meaning of Transgender Bathrooms." Moore,...
May 12, 2016
Several years ago I was asked that question: "When will your theology stop changing?" It...
May 03, 2016
Have you ever witnessed a miracle? To even answer that question, we'd have to come...

April 2016

April 29, 2016
Dear Jesus: "There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no...
April 26, 2016
"Axis of evil." "That person is evil incarnate!" "There's so much evil in our world..."...
April 25, 2016
Picture this: After an hour-long, particularly excruciating routine of finally getting your baby to sleep,...
April 25, 2016
I'm happy to report that we have put together an excellent session for this fall's Søren...
April 22, 2016
Carl Sagan begins his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in...
April 21, 2016
Jesus's life started like so many other unfortunate ones across the globe. As a refugee....
April 20, 2016
Every religion has its creation story--and multiple variations within each religion. Where did we come...
April 19, 2016
If your car broke down, and you had to pay $400.00 to get it fixed,...
April 15, 2016
What to do about the seminaries? CC0 Public Domain via Pixabay Theological education faces a...
April 14, 2016
A CNN op-ed today explores the question of Bernie Sanders' religion and gives some interesting...
April 12, 2016
The third installment of Morgan Freeman's "The Story of God" (upcoming, 4/17) departs a bit...
April 06, 2016
People are fascinated by the end of the world. Global annihilation. Widespread famine. Fire and...
April 05, 2016
Sam Chan (Ph.D., M.D.) is a theologian, preacher, and medical doctor who writes and gives...
April 04, 2016
Most of us don't want this life to be all there is. We don't want...
April 01, 2016
The doctrine of the "perpetual virginity of Mary" is well-established within both official Roman Catholicism...

March 2016

March 31, 2016
When will the kingdom finally come? When will creation be healed? When will evil be...
March 29, 2016
Last week, in my "Immortality and Hope" class, I shared the clip below from Seinfeld....
March 27, 2016
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ is one of the most intriguing titles...
March 25, 2016
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" These words of Jesus, spoken in...
March 17, 2016
The following is a guest post by David Congdon,  a scholar of New Testament theologian...
March 16, 2016
When you go to the voting booth in November, there's a surprising variable that could...
March 14, 2016
The gospels include lots of stories of Jesus healing people. Some examples: unknown diseases, leprosy,...
March 09, 2016
I'm running a little contest today. Thanks to Patheos and Zondervan, I'm going to give...
March 08, 2016
Can God do anything and everything God wants to do? Think about it for more...
March 01, 2016
I came across a nice reminder on this Caucus Tuesday. In the collaboratively authored Missional...
March 01, 2016
The virgin birth of Jesus is one of the most celebrated doctrines in the New...
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