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April 2017

April 11, 2017

Was the Resurrection a Hoax?

by Jedediah McClure The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, believed by roughly 2.4 billion people across the...

May 2016

May 03, 2016

A Very Human Jesus: Ewan McGregor on Playing Yeshua in ‘Last Days in the Desert’

"You can't approach playing a character such as Jesus without being a little freaked out....

May 02, 2016

WATCH: Exclusive Clip from ‘Last Days in the Desert’ with Ewan McGregor

Last Days in the Desert, a new film by writer/director Rodrigo Garcia and starring Ewan McGregor,...

March 2016

March 18, 2016

Power, Politics, and Palm Sunday: Which Leader Will You Follow?

By the Rev. Claire Feingold Thoryn Palm Sunday is the story of a triumphant entry...

February 2016

February 02, 2016

Throwing Jesus Off a Cliff

If you invited someone to your house and shortly after they arrived you felt like throwing...

February 01, 2016

The Greatest Manhunt in History: On the New Movie RISEN

RISEN, a new movie from Sony Films, arrives in theaters February 19, just after we've begun our...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

Turning Wine Into Water and Other Everyday Miracles

Everybody, at some point in their life, wants a miracle. But it is usually when...

December 2015

December 08, 2015

Jesus Loves Santa (I Saw Them Together at Macy’s)

I had a religious experience at Macy’s department store in New York City when I...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

The Selfie or The Song? Seeking Jesus in the Holy Land

Danielle Shroyer’s new book “Where Jesus Prayed: Illuminations on the Lord’s Prayer in the Holy...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

The Fruit of Soulful Love: Marvin Gaye, God and Us

The late Marvin Gaye was my first proper crush. His chocolate buttery voice courted me....

April 2015

April 03, 2015

Easter is About Seeing Those at the Margins

For many Christians, Easter is a high holy holiday—it’s the religious bedrock that not only...

April 02, 2015

Holy Week in an Unholy World

"God understands our pain. That is good theology for Good Friday. And that kind of...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Did God Kill Jesus? Tony Jones on the Crucifixion, Love, and Resurrection

"The way we view the crucifixion of Jesus and the posture of God when that...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

Where Is God? A Sermon on Why It’s Not Necessary to Believe that Jesus is God

John’s prologue is actually a poem that introduces major themes that will be developed in...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Yes, Mary Did Know. But Do We?

By the Rev. Jude Harmon Chartbusting this holiday season is Pentatonix’s cover of “Mary Did...

December 18, 2014

When Jesus Stopped Believing in Santa

The day after the first Shabbat in Advent, Mary and Joseph took Jesus, who was...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Away With the Manger

The annual rant is upon us: Thanksgiving is still weeks away, and already the stores...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

What Jesus Learned from a Courageous Woman (and what we can learn too!)

One of the more fascinating stories in the Gospels that many Christians conveniently ignore is...

August 19, 2014

Stump a Bible Scholar: Is Jesus God?

Think you can stump a scholar? No question is too tough or too radical (this...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Five Surprises That Hit Me When Writing “How Jesus Became God”

In my opinion, How Jesus Became God is the most important book I’ve written for non-scholars, since...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

In Praise of Heretics

The word “heretic” is often thrown around today to denounce someone for espousing an idea...

May 16, 2014

The Cross and Gendercide: A Book Review

Elizabeth Gerhardt’s The Cross and Gendercide is without hesitation among (if not the) most convicting,...

May 12, 2014

If It Weren’t for Jesus, I Might be Pro-Death Too: A Response to Al Mohler

Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler wrote a piece this week defending the death penalty. In...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Blood Doctrine: Christian Piatt Asks – What if Jesus Returns… as a Clone?

By Blake Atwood, faithvillage.com As an author, Christian Piatt may be most well-known for his Banned...

April 18, 2014

The Cross: My Answer to My Daughter’s Question, “Why Did God Make Sickness?”

in Golgotha, at the Cross, humanity spoke violence and God spoke love, and the cross...

April 15, 2014

Did God Forsake Jesus On the Cross?

When Mother Teresa’s private journals were published after her death, the surprising revelation was that...

April 14, 2014

Resurrection: Calculating the Probabilities

The end of the Gospel of Mark is, shall we say, indecisive. Mark’s account of...

April 11, 2014

The Cross, Part 6: They Should Have Sent a Poet

Like most six-year-olds on their first day of school, I remember sitting excited and terrified. ...

April 03, 2014

If Jesus Gave a TED Talk (#5): When the Capitol is Surrounded by Armies

This is the fifth in a series of posts where I re-imagine Jesus’ five big sermons as TED Talks,...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

The Cross, Part 4: The Views of Calvin, Arminius, and Aslan Described Somewhat Snarkily

One of the issues facing our understanding of the crucifixion event centers on who to...