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February 2013

February 22, 2013

A Response to Tony Jones’ Question: What’s Good About Integral Theory?

Thanks for asking. A full answer would take a book – one I’ve made...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

“Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will.”

Guilty Secret: I like action-adventure - especially like the secret agent variety. The premise of...

May 08, 2012

Freedom from a Punishing God

When you’re a Christian preacher sometimes you get a real earful concerning the nature of...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

Rodin’s Hand of God

We no longer live in a world where we think of God as that old...

April 17, 2012

A Note to the Spiritual But Not Religious

It is not an easy case to make, I’ll grant, not easy to support the...

March 2012

March 19, 2012

Done With Substitutionary Atonement – Really Done

I’m done with Substitutionary atonement. I’m done with the magical notion that human beings need...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Resonance and Dissonance Between the World’s Great Religions

Religion. The very word strikes fear in the hearts of your average citizen . ....

November 2011

November 28, 2011

A Review of Integral Christianity by Paul Smith

I’d like to be able to thank Rev. Smith for taking a stab at describing...

November 05, 2011

An Open Letter to Evangelicals, (sort of)

I need a little help over here on the dark side in liberal, post-liberal, or...

October 2011

October 05, 2011

An Open Letter to Girls Becoming Women

I worry about a world where the feminine - especially the young feminine - lives...

September 2011

September 29, 2011

No Anthropomorphic God? Now What?

I spoke last week about false hope implicit in an anthropomorphic God. It boiled down...

September 22, 2011

False Hope and Beauty in an Anthropomorphic God

We speak of a conscious god, one with feelings like sorrow, anger, and joy. We...

July 2011

July 14, 2011

The Straw Man and the Arrogant Modernist

God save me from smug, ill informed, modernists who spend their time deconstructing faith thinking...

July 09, 2011

In Our Backyard, a Christian Perspective on Human Trafficking

You’ve seen them, the storefronts, or 2nd floor windows that say, “Massage - ‘Vaguely Asian...

May 2011

May 11, 2011

A Little Hope and . . .

There have been some moments of hope this week. I published an op-ed piece in...

May 02, 2011

Justice is Served?

Don’t get me wrong, I get it. I get the horror, the shock, and the...

February 2011

February 07, 2011

What if There Were No Religions?

What if there were no religions? I like John Lennon as much as the next...

January 2011

January 05, 2011

Why Isn’t It Cool to Be a Christian?

It’s just not cool to be a Christian. I went to Integral Spiritual Experience, (ISE)...

November 2010

November 15, 2010

Please, let’s not confuse forgiveness and reconciliation

I’ve mentioned the Pastor’s occupational hazard - more often than not, when I mention my...

November 01, 2010

Loss of Meaning

The tragedies in Marin have been piling up these last few weeks. Two teenagers committed...

October 2010

October 19, 2010

We Really Ought to Name Something “Bob”

Several years ago when Canada was considering splitting up their Northwest Territories into two Provinces,...

October 05, 2010

Magic Blood

My mother had rocks in her head. She said so herself. She was referring to...

July 2010

July 14, 2010

A Still More Glorious Dawn

A Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits1 As Luke’s gospel tells the story, the religious leaders,...

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