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December 2014

December 15, 2014

Did the Exodus Happen? And What It Means Today

Ridley Scott, is the director of such classic films as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma &...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

Reading the Same Text Differently with Jews & Christians

This post is about the ways Christians have often appropriated Jewish scripture in a way that does...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

Tectonic Shifts in the Global Religious Landscape since WWI

The Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism set a high bar. To list only a few examples:...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Scientific Rigor and Spiritual Evolution: The Work of Jeffrey Kripal

This post is part of a summer-long Patheos series on 2014 Religious Trends. This week,...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Religious Mystic & Rational Humanist: The Mystical Humanism of Jeffrey Kripal

For days, I had been participating in the annual Bengali celebration of the goddess Kali...

March 06, 2014

A Journey with Four Spiritual Guides: Krishna

The Rigveda from the Hindu tradition is the oldest religious text still in continuous use,...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

Cisgender and Transgender

Most people are more familiar with the term transgender than with the term cisgender. The...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Interspirituality: Experiencing the Heart of the World’s Religions

I believe the future of religion is a spirituality that is interfaith at its core........

August 2013

August 26, 2013

Why “Spiritual And Religious” Is More Radical Than “Spiritual But Not Religious”

Almost two years ago Lillian Daniel, the Senior Minister of First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn,...

July 2013

July 28, 2013

Embracing Pluralism, Building Bridges, and “Common Action for the Common Good”

“I am large, I contain multitudes.” (Walt Whitman) “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah.”...

October 2012

October 08, 2012

Do We Need a Moratorium on the Word “God”?

I have been trying to find a way of being religious that’s still possible (or...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

Native American Spiritualities: Appropriation and Reciprocity

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

The First Source: Direct Experience

In 1962, only a couple of years after I was born, pollsters found that 2%...

March 2012

March 05, 2012

Confessions of a Western Universalist

(Rajiv Malhotra, Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, HarperCollins, 2011, 474 pages) Rajiv...

December 2011

December 20, 2011

Top 10 Best Podcasts of 2011

(1) NPR: Religion – A few years ago my car radio was almost always tuned to...

October 2011

October 14, 2011

Brian McLaren, "Two Kinds of Religion," and #OccupyWallSt

I was reminded today of a quote from author and public theologian Brian McLaren that...

September 2011

September 27, 2011

Public School Principal Proselytizes Students in SC

The ACLU reports that: A public school in South Carolina flagrantly violated the Constitution recently...

August 2011

August 23, 2011

BOOK REVIEW: "Is God a Christian?"

(R. Kirby Godsey, Is God a Christian? Creating a Community of Conversation, Mercer University Press, 2011,...

June 2011

June 10, 2011

Lectionary Commentary: “Bring Many Names: Progressive Christianity on Trinity Sunday” (for June 19, 2011)

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso has written a wonderful children’s book called In God's Name that affirms...

May 2011

May 13, 2011

Lectionary Commentary: “A Progressive Christian Reading of John 14:6” (for Sunday, May 22, 2011)

I have a long and complicated relationship with today’s Gospel lesson, especially verse six: “Jesus...

March 2011

March 12, 2011

I Hope Rob Bell Is a Universalist

I've been following some of the controversy over Rob Bell's not-yet-even-published book Love Wins: A...

October 2010

October 27, 2010

Book Review: Prothero’s God Is Too Small

Stephen Prothero, religion professor at Boston University, has a new book with the intentionally-provocative title...

October 16, 2010

Affirming Christianity and Islam

As a native son of Florence, South Carolina, I was shocked to hear that the...

July 2009

July 13, 2009

Eboo Patel is the new Diana Eck!

Eboo Patel is the new Diana Eck! For the non-theology-dorks among us, Eck broke ground...

May 2009

May 31, 2009

Pluralism, Pragmatism, Progressivism: Reflecting on Ten Years of Theological Training

14 After John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God,...