According to the Talmud, loshon hara kills three people: the one who speaks it, the one who hears it, and the one about whom it is told. 'Kill' may strike the modern reader as a bit hyperbolic, but wh...
Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go on l...
It is a fundamental misunderstanding of Genesis, wrote Peter Enns, to expect it to answer questions generated by a modern worldview, such as whether the days were literal or figurative, or whether the...
Madeleine L’Engle said, the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. 58 I think the same is true for churches.
As Barbara Brown Taylor puts it, in an age of information overload . . . the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives...
To be a priest, writes Barbara Brown Taylor, is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.38
Madeleine L’Engle said, the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.58 I think the same is true for churches. Each one stays with us, even after we’ve lef...
With all the conceptual truths in the universe at his disposal, writes Barbara Brown Taylor, [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when he was gone. Instead, he gave them concret...
As Brené Brown puts it, I went to church thinking it would be like an epidural, that it would take the pain away . . . But church isn’t like an epidural; it’s like a midwife . . . I thought faith woul...
With the best of intentions, the generation before mine worked diligently to prepare their children to make an intelligent case for Christianity. We were constantly reminded of the superiority of our...