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.
This papal document—which has not yet been repudiated by the Catholic Church—was the basis for the Christian justification of colonialism and the building of competitive Spanish, Portuguese, British,...
Through study we welcome the light of God into our minds.
To everyone, Jesus issues an invitation to abandon the story they will lose themselves in, and instead, to enter the story they will find themselves in.
Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.
We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor — a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get to know our father — someone with whom we have an...
The only viable response to religious hostility is love, empathy, compassion, understanding—not more hostility. (What could be more pathetic than a hostile fight against hostility?)
We might say that two thousand years ago, Jesus inserted into the human imagination a radical new vision of God—nondominating, nonviolent, supreme in service, and self-giving. That vision was so radic...
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, na...
We must, therefore, never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God—whether in prose or in poetry. Romano
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...
What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agile—more responsive to the Holy Spirit—when it exist...
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...
When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.
When physical genocide ran its course, cultural genocide followed, reflected in the compassionate counsel of Captain Richard Henry Pratt: A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead o...
When would-be reformers arise, they are rejected as heretics, turncoats, troublemakers, disturbers of the peace, traitors, and enemies.
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