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January 2016

January 04, 2016

Gifts Not Chains: Epiphany Wisdom for Foreign Aid (Matthew 2:1-12)

The turn of each calendar year is often filled with an influx of charitable giving,...

January 04, 2016

My New Year’s Resolution: To Be A Better Liar

I have never been a very good liar. I rarely even try it. Lying, for...

December 2015

December 03, 2015

National Public Radio for the Mind

At our Wednesday mindfulness meditation practice group here at the University of Southern California, which...

December 02, 2015

Reflections on Advent: Music, Mindfulness, and Movement

"I have found in my journey that music can play a powerful role in allowing...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

The Refugees Who Came for Thanksgiving

As I prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, I am reminded of the autumnal harvest time's...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

The Power of Ritual: A Mirror for Life’s Passages

Fall sunlight streamed through stained glass, warming the faces and the souls of the people...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

Why Philly is the Perfect Place for the Pope to Denounce the Death Penalty

I guess there is no bad place to call for an end to execution. But...

September 14, 2015

Why Progressive Christians Should Pray

While many bemoan the decline of the American religious, one fact remains: religiously affiliated or...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

Confessions of an Ex-Postmodernist

by Todd A. Comer "Why Am I an Ex-Postmodernist? Perhaps because—even though ‘we’ postmodernists are well...

August 04, 2015

Can we Stop for a Minute? A Call for an Ecclesiastical Intervention

It never changes. At every event, at every workshop, in so many of our sanctuaries...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

6 Ways to Reach Millennials: The Future of Progressive Christianity

by Glenn Zuber The recent May 12th Pew poll ("America's Changing Religious Landscape") added a new wrinkle...

July 29, 2015

The Future of Progressive Christianity: What If…?

What if the people leaving the Church are the collective voice of God to us,...

July 29, 2015

Missing Sunday Mornings

[Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of posts we'll be featuring by the...

July 15, 2015

Liberal Protestants, Social Justice and Antisemitism: Reflections on the BDS Movement

By Mark E. Gammon With the astounding pace of news over the last couple of...

July 10, 2015

The South IS Rising Again: A Southern Boy on Taking Down the Confederate Flag

This morning the rebel flag was removed from the Capitol grounds of South Carolina. The South...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Considering “Sanctuary” in the Aftermath of Charleston

One of my favorite and in my opinion vastly underrated movies of all time is...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

5 Things I Want My Youth To Know As They Graduate High School

The end of a school year brings with it the whole gambit of emotions as...

May 19, 2015

Michael Dowd: When Religion Fails, Economics Become Demonic

For my fifth Pando Populus post, I’ve asked my good friend Michael Dowd to briefly...

May 14, 2015

When Did ‘Just Showing Up’ Become Not Enough?

As a kid I had a single bookshelf in my bedroom that served a two-fold purpose;...

May 07, 2015

The Invisible Hand — of God

"When the happiness or misery of others depends in any respect upon our conduct, we...

May 07, 2015

Happy Mother’s Day, Dad!

By Dwight Wolter “Does it bother you” I ask my son, “that I won’t be able...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Philip Clayton on The Dilemmas of Feeding the World

When Jesus said, “I was hungry and you gave me food,” about 2,000 years ago,...

April 27, 2015

“As-salamu alaykum, What’s up, Bro?” — The Many Graces of Allah

I have been in many mosques, including four of the most “amazing mosques from around...

April 23, 2015

Genesis: The First Messy, Tangled Act in God’s Long Story of Becoming Humane

For the last couple of months, I've been studying the book of Genesis with a...

April 06, 2015

Resurrection for the Rest of Us

By John Holbert I was not raised in the church—no Sunday School, no youth camps,...

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...

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...

March 26, 2015

Easter and the Imperfect Jesus (What We Gain and Lose in the Deification of Jesus)

"Because of Easter and consequently Jesus’ exalted divine status, we are left in the Gospels...

March 11, 2015

Convergence Christianity: A Q&A with Eric Elnes

by Timothy Villareal The Rev. Eric Elnes, senior minister of Countryside Community Church (UCC) in...

March 09, 2015

When Did Biblical Marriage Get To Be A Thing?

The day after I became the first Southern Baptist minister to officiate at a same-sex...