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December 2014

December 11, 2014

Has Christmas Been Swallowed by the Miraculous?

Like a preacher who has pastored a congregation for more than a year, I am...

October 2014

October 14, 2014

Remembering Our Death: What May Be at Stake

A great change has occurred in the rituals, formal and informal, surrounding dying and death...

October 03, 2014

What Would It Have Been Like to Be A Companion of Jesus?

I began keeping a journal in my early 30s, now forty years ago. I wish...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Responding to a Critic: Misunderstanding or Misrepresentation?

To write about religion is to court controversy, conflict, and criticism. It confirms the counsel...

September 02, 2014

Top Religious Trends 2014: A Christianity Co-Opted by Individualistic, Exclusivist Faith

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends. Read...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Does the Bible Matter? Progressive Christians and Scripture

To neglect the Bible because of the negative associations generated by the common Christianity of...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Easter Again

I sympathize with clergy who preach about Easter to the same congregation for several years....

October 2013

October 09, 2013

Continuing the Resurrection Conversation

I am pleased to see that my response to Tony Jones has generated a thoughtful...

October 01, 2013

Meeting Marcus Borg Again for the First Time

I am pleased to become a Patheos “blogger” (a word none of us knew until...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

The Resurrection of Jesus: Physical/Bodily or Spiritual/Mystical?

This is an excerpt of an article written for Patheos on April 18, 2011. The...