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October 2015

October 13, 2015
How in God's green earth are so many people still denying the reality of climate...
October 12, 2015
I was interested to learn today that Congressman Keith Ellison is endorsing Bernie Sanders for...
October 12, 2015
Stanley Hauerwas, one of America's most prominent living Christian theologians and ethicists, represents an approach...
October 09, 2015
Pretend, for a minute, that Christianity is based on hatred rather than on love.  Sadly,...
October 07, 2015
The Justice Department has announced a plan to set 6,000 prisoners free, which as the...
October 06, 2015
After discovering she had brain cancer, Brittany Maynard moved from California to Oregon so that...
October 05, 2015
Kathryn Tanner is a first-rate theologian. Her book, The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social...
October 01, 2015
Obama's statement to the nation, following the horror of yet another mass shooting, rings sadly...

September 2015

September 30, 2015
Kelly Gissendaner was executed last night for her role in the murder of her husband...
September 27, 2015
This post is a contribution to the Patheos Book Club discussion on Peter Enns' Inspiration...
September 24, 2015
In Denial of Death, Ernest Becker argues (in chp. 4) that human character is a...
September 23, 2015
In my Public Theology class last night, we discussed--albeit too briefly--Pope Francis as a public...
September 23, 2015
I never had the honor of meeting Phyllis Tickle or even of hearing her speak....
September 21, 2015
The Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) has announced today (via a statement on...
September 21, 2015
In participation for my Christian Ethics class this semester, I read Wolfhart Panneberg's (the late,...
September 17, 2015
Tomorrow I begin teaching my fall course, Evil, Death, and Alienation (Don't worry, students: I'll...
September 16, 2015
John Piper recently responded to this question from a listener to his podcast: Pastor John,...
September 15, 2015
These days, an otherwise unknown country clerk, Kim Davis, gets front-page news attention for defying...
September 14, 2015
This post is a contribution to the Patheos book club discussion of Curt Thompson's recent...
September 11, 2015
Somehow I missed Stephen Colbert's interview with Joe Biden last night on Late Night. I...
September 11, 2015
It's been 14 years since 9-11, that day that changed (in many ways) marked a...
September 10, 2015
I've been reading through Alasdair MacIntyre's A History of Ethics. It's an older text (1966)...
September 09, 2015
When the Ashley Madison hack happened, one of the first articles I read about it...
September 09, 2015
This post is a contribution to the Patheos Book Club discussion of Curt Thompson's The...
September 08, 2015
A US district judge has recently ordered that Kim Davis be released from prison, according...
September 08, 2015
A few days ago, Garrett Gilkey, NFL lineman (Tampa Bay Bucs), published an essay in which...
September 07, 2015
Sarah Palin recently weighed in on Donald Trump's criticism of Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish...
September 04, 2015
My former employer, Bethel University, is putting on what promises to be a terrific conference...
September 03, 2015
If you suddenly had over two billion dollars, would it make you sad? An article...
September 02, 2015
Those following the unfolding crisis within the CCCU (Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities) will...
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