What is the most significant conversation you have every day? People would respond piously, Your conversation with God, of course. No, Lewis would reply. It’s the conversation you have with yourself b...
Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we’re unwilling to questio...
People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
Postmoderns are not less interested in religion than ever before. Indeed, they are exploring new religious experiences like never before. The church has simply given them a less interesting religion t...
[Fasting is] a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...
Some people--and I pray I will be one of them--never forget what it was like, which enables them to mentor people of any age.
Sometimes, webecome so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see...
We often fail to deconstruct how proslavery theology still influences American Christianity. But simply put: Theological arguments upheld the institution of slavery long after every other argument fai...
Such a possibility raises a question: if one dares to let one’s traditional and inherited Christian understanding of God be converted under the influence of Jesus, can one still be considered a Christ...
Surely many courageous Christians spoke out against the savagery of their so-called civilized fellow Christians? And surely many compassionate Christians spoke out for the humanity of the so-called sa...
The life-and-death question for each of our churches and denominations may boil down to this: are we a club for the elite who pretend to have arrived or a school for disciples who are still on the way...
The new dimensions of the message are examples of the Spirit of truth doing what Jesus promised he would do: continuing
The people of Hispaniola had their lives unjustly and savagely taken by professed Jesus followers, and they were not, as we all know, the only ones to meet such a fate. Millions of their Indigenous si...
The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that...
The statement serves as the basis for what is commonly called the Doctrine of Discovery, the teaching that whatever Christians discover, they can take and use as they wish. It is breathtaking in its t...
The surface causes of environmental carelessness among conservative Christians are legion, including subcontracting the evangelical mind out to right-wing politicians and greedy business interests. To...
The wise preacher of Ecclesiastes might say, There is a time for everything—a time to be laid-back and a time to be outraged; a time to be tolerant and a time to stand up and say, ‘I’m not going to ta...
There is a difference — subtle but very significant — between having faith in my faith (i.e., faith in my intellectual concepts about God — another way of saying leaning on my own understanding) and h...
There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.
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