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July 02, 2012

The Moral Vacuum of the Health Care Debates

On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Having It All

The blogs and news sites were abuzz last week following Anne-Marie Slaughter's article "Why Women...

June 25, 2012

Narratives within Narrative

Much is made about narrative as a way of reading Scripture, as a method for...

June 21, 2012

Did Schaeffer’s Prayer Save a Plane From Crashing? A Little Reflection on “Miracles”

I recently came across an intriguing story Francis Schaeffer recounted in his book Death in...

June 19, 2012

Concluding Thoughts on Thomas Kinkade

Thomas Kinkade has been an easy target for art critics. But my decision to write...

June 18, 2012

Advice for a New Father – from a Rookie

A friend and former student of mine (and currently youth pastor extraordinaire), recently suggested that I...

June 15, 2012

Billy Joel, George R. R. Martin, and Job

Guest blogger Dawn Duncan Harrell is author of Ten Ways to Pray. You can find...

June 14, 2012

Prometheus, Genesis and the Purpose of Creation

Hollywood has had an eschatology fetish lately: exploring the final days, coming demise of the...

June 12, 2012

Art and Grace

Andrei Tarkovsky, The Passion of Andrei Rublev (1966) Grace and Sacrament Grace is known through...

June 12, 2012

Liar, Liar Robes on Fire

As the economy continues its gyrations on the backside of the housing bust, a company...

June 11, 2012

Summer Has Arrived

Summer has arrived in Northeast Ohio. In spite of a mild winter, and a low...

June 08, 2012

LIBERATE Launches Today

When I am not writing about art, culture, and theology here at Patheos, I...

June 06, 2012

Go Bananas

As I sliced up a banana for my morning corn flakes while waiting for the...

June 05, 2012

The Ear and the Eye

Makoto Fujimura, The Golden Sea, 64 x 80, mineral pigments and gold on Kumohada paper,...

June 04, 2012

People Watching in Airports

I spent good chunks of time over the week-end in three airports, more time spent...

June 01, 2012

Moral Courage: Caring and Compassion, Seeing and Speaking

I was invited to give the Commencement Address at Bethel Theological Seminary this Saturday, June...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

The Comfort of a Colonoscopy

Among the most emailed articles in the New York Times this week is about colonoscopies....

May 29, 2012

The Final Word on Thomas Kinkade

Thomas Kinkade My theological analysis of Thomas Kinkade's work ("The Dark Light of Thomas...

May 28, 2012

Memorial Day

I confess to being one of many who see Memorial Day as the official start...

May 25, 2012

Seminaries and Science

A lot of people are talking about the relation between science and theology lately. Questions...

May 24, 2012

Selling Your V-Card? The Reality Show that Might Have Been

MTV made a splash recently with a online casting call for a provocative reality show...

May 23, 2012

Should Pot Luck Suppers Go Organic?

Here in southwest Minneapolis, where locavores and Lutherans proliferate, the suggestion that church pot luck...

May 22, 2012

The Dark Light of Thomas Kinkade

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, 1520-22, oil...

May 21, 2012

Gratitude to Ada María Isasi-Díaz

I learned earlier this week that one of my professors from graduate school passed away. ...

May 20, 2012

Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Internet

Today, some 40,000 ultra-Orthodox, male Jews (women not allowed) are packing out Mets Stadium to...

May 17, 2012

We Might as Well Work for Justice: Ada Maria Isasi-Díaz

Ada Maria Isasi-Díaz passed away this past weekend, on Mothers' Day, after a struggle with...

May 16, 2012

A Church’s Expiration Date

Visiting with my grandmother in North Carolina, she bemoaned the decrease of her small Quaker...

May 15, 2012

The Scream, a Stuffed Shark, and the Insecurity of Culture

Last week I took the opportunity of the record sale at auction of Edvard Munch's...

May 14, 2012

Our Christian Identity Crisis

I am reading a book I am interested in using for a class in the...

May 10, 2012

Everything Flows: God’s Breath and Human Bodies

I've been thinking about breath lately. Michelle Voss Roberts, in her fascinating book, Dualities: A Theology...