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July 2016

July 04, 2016

You are Asking the Wrong Questions!?

More than once in the last week I've been told that when we talk about...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Belief Cannot Make Us One

There is no universal human expression of timeless truth. Humans can neither think nor articulate...

June 24, 2016

The End of Babel

I’m thinking about the cities in the Bible. The seven cities in Revelation are often...

June 14, 2016

Orlando and Religious Law – We have a Problem

John 18:29: So Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring...

June 09, 2016

Love Minus Zero / No Limit?

In the last blog I offered that God reveals God’s self in scripture as the...

June 05, 2016

Everyone Revises – The Question is Where to Stop

In the previous blog I explored why the dispute between traditionalists and progressives regarding same-sex...

June 03, 2016

We Believe Before We Read

"Ever since his own day Tyndall’s translation has been blamed for being tendentious. If we...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Do Christians have Anything to Learn about God?

I’ve recently been engaged in reading about a movement within United Methodism to promote Christian...

April 19, 2016

Intelligence under Attack II

American Christians become so obsessed with the supposed attacks by secularists and humanists on their...

April 19, 2016

Intelligence Under Attack Part I

Inside the US the attack on intelligence by Ted Cruz’ new foreign policy advisors directly...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

The End of Terror

Brussels. Istambul. Lahore. And a thousand other places that we didn’t hear of or forgot....

January 2016

January 17, 2016

Forget God, Interreligious Understanding begins with Anthropology

The single most important question in interreligious dialogue today is not theological. Is anthropological. And...

January 14, 2016

God in Bethlehem, God in Mecca?

The question of whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God is for all practical...

January 05, 2016

There is no God but God. Is it really that simple?

Who will be the watchman on the wall to warn when danger approaches the people...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Dialogue or Death

Or at least irrelevance. I note that in major cities across the United States, certainly...

November 24, 2015

Is it Hate Speech?

I recently stated in an interview that pastor Robert Jeffress’ statements “Islam is a false...

November 22, 2015

The Darkness in the Heart of Dallas

If Dallas is going to be the city it wants to be then Christian pastors...

November 16, 2015

Freedom from Religion: Maybe a Good Idea.

A young man lies in a hospital bed after a sports accident. He is conscious,...

November 14, 2015

Job’s Visitors

The blood hadn’t dried and the bodies were still warm when Job’s visitors arrived. A...

November 04, 2015

Do Unto Others . . . ? Not so much.

Imagine for a minute that you live in a country where Christians are a small...

November 01, 2015

Activists versus Dialogue at the Parliament.

"Would the fundamentalists have shown up for a pluralistic conference that respects multiple viewpoints anyway”...

November 01, 2015

American Idolatry

"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union,...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

ISIS and Religious Terror: To Report is not to Support

“By publicizing the views of ISIS as Islamic you are helping their cause.” That was...

October 03, 2015

Mecca to Roseburg, Two Sides of the Same Hopeless Fatalism

Congress needs to get off its knees and back to work. Another shooter, another group...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

Ahmed’s Clock, It Will Happen Again

We need to get out of the weeds of blame in the Ahmed Mohamed case,...

September 03, 2015

On Obama’s Win and the Iran Nuclear Deal: The Wrong Time to Celebrate

Yesterday I learned from the Washington Post and New York Times that President Obama got...

August 2015

August 23, 2015

Rodeo Season in America

Although I come from a long time West Texas family I confess that we were...

August 10, 2015

Wouldn’t I, Wooden Eye, Hairlip Hairlip

There is an old and rather ugly joke about two people on a cruise. They...

August 08, 2015

Fear of Death in Farmersville

Thus far the Islamophobia in Farmersville Texas, spurred on by a Christian pastor named David...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

The Poisonous Fruit of Outrage

A scarred face and broken teeth stared out at me from my Facebook feed. The...

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