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July 2015

July 14, 2015

Political pastors

Have you heard about this: Pastors Eye a Move From God's House to the Statehouse...

July 14, 2015

Receive the kingdom of God as a little child

July 11, 2015

The living God lives in creation

July 10, 2015

Christians in our changing world

Their religion no longer sustains them. The society of their youth has vanished. Their simple...

July 08, 2015

My faith story – more or less

In September, 2001, I was living in a hotel, going through a divorce, drinking and...

July 08, 2015

Justice Scalia, Meet Spirituality

Melanie Lynn Grifffin gets it: "Turns out, though, Jesus did not come to establish a...

July 03, 2015

American dependence

July 02, 2015

The sacred and the Dead

There are some really good articles here about some of the songs from one of...

June 2015

June 28, 2015

The word of God in silence

June 26, 2015

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool –

June 25, 2015

Henri Nouwen on the spiritual life

June 24, 2015

Jesus before the Bible – for non-Christians

Too many of our fundamentalist Christian, non-Christian, pagan, and atheist sisters and brothers focus on...

June 24, 2015

Into the heart of God

I took my 16 month-old daughter to the Atlantic Ocean yesterday for the first time....

June 23, 2015

Be present, O merciful God

June 22, 2015

A question about photos from South Carolina

By now, we’ve seen photos of the accused assassin of Rev. Clem Pinckney and eight...

June 18, 2015

An ugly cycle of racial terrorism

The facts of the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina are unfolding. But the deeper...

June 16, 2015

A problem with Christianity

June 12, 2015

Spiritual formation

June 10, 2015

Strange bedfellows

This is awkward. In a June 5 Facebook post, Franklin Graham suggested it’s time to...

June 04, 2015

A gendered God

Have you heard about this, from the Guardian? Let God be a ‘she,’ says Church...

June 02, 2015

TO: Denny Burk, Professor of Biblical Studies at Boyce College, the undergraduate arm of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.

MEMO TO: Denny Burk, Professor of Biblical Studies at Boyce College, the undergraduate arm of...

June 01, 2015

God loves you

This thought gives me great comfort. How does this make you feel? What thoughts do...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

Look down, O Lord

May 29, 2015

U.S. Christian churches are losing members (or, how Rob Bell learned to stop worrying about Jesus and embrace a national tour)

Look at the United States, and according to the U.S. Census, here's what you'll see....

May 29, 2015

House blessing

May 28, 2015

Blessed are the merciful

May 27, 2015

The most important thing you leave behind

May 26, 2015

The world was so beautiful and life was so short

May 25, 2015

The desire to find peace on Memorial Day

I met President Carter at his church several years ago, after he taught Sunday School....

May 23, 2015

The Duggars – worshiping a wrong Jesus

“I don’t know who their version of Jesus or God is. I have no comprehension...