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December 2015

December 07, 2015
It's no secret that Protestants gives much less attention to Mary, the mother of Jesus,...
December 04, 2015
This semester I've been teaching a course called, Death, Evil, and Alienation here at United...
December 02, 2015
I'm guessing that when most pastors preach about Mary, the mother of Jesus, they don't...

November 2015

November 30, 2015
The first task of theology is to address the very possibility of theologizing about silence...
November 25, 2015
In the months following Ferguson, several commentators predicted that Minneapolis would become the next city...
November 23, 2015
I'm in Atlanta, enjoying the national American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature...
November 22, 2015
This post is a contribution to Patheos' book club discussion on Mark Strauss's Jesus Behaving...
November 19, 2015
Steven Davis, a Christian theology and apologetics professor, recently deconverted from Christianity and theism to...
November 18, 2015
In Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, M. Shawn Copeland has a hard-hitting, critical word...
November 17, 2015
It's become fashionable in academic theology circles to refuse to speculate on God's role in...
November 16, 2015
This Sunday, my church small group just happened to be studying a familiar passage in...
November 14, 2015
Pete Enns reflects today on the problem of violence in the Bible in light of...
November 12, 2015
Recently I raised the tough problem of violence in the Bible.   The Bible includes...
November 10, 2015
Have you ever wondered what to do with all those nasty passages in the Bible...
November 08, 2015
Have you ever read the following passage and wondered what to do with it? When...
November 06, 2015
Yesterday I reflected on the most recent Pew Forum results which show yet another increase...
November 04, 2015
Secularism is definitely on the rise. What will this mean for Christianity? Yesterday, the Pew...
November 03, 2015
I've been looking forward to Thomas Jay Oord's book, The Uncontrolling Love of God: An...
November 02, 2015
Last week, James McGrath, over at Exploring Our Matrix, posted this meme : I enjoy...

October 2015

October 30, 2015
Awhile ago I had the privilege of contributing to a unique book project. The book,...
October 28, 2015
When I read James Cone's God of the Oppressed eight or nine years ago, the...
October 27, 2015
If pastors take the advice of Jason K. Allen, a Southern Baptist Seminary president, they...
October 26, 2015
Toward the end of Willis Jenkins' book, The Future of Ethics, he has a gem...
October 23, 2015
Gustavo Gutierrez is known as the father or founder of liberation theology. A Peruvian priest...
October 22, 2015
Albuquerque Police are reporting that a man named Tony Torrez, 32, has confessed to the...
October 21, 2015
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) by no means speaks authoritatively for all evangelicals. No...
October 20, 2015
Despite the many who still deny the reality of climate change and who undermine the...
October 19, 2015
Lot's of folks have analyzed, dissected, and speculated on the appeal of Donald Trump. We...
October 15, 2015
Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and still the most prominent of...
October 14, 2015
My review of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics...
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