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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 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 04, 2016

The Great Divorce

No - not the excellent book by CS Lewis - I just used that as...

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....

February 2016

February 29, 2016

A Sign of Hope from the House of Islam

The best way to insure human rights in a modern society is to insure that...

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...

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 10, 2015

A Level Playing Field in Missouri?

Offensive racial, ethnic, and religious slurs are means of asserting power and privilege, and thus...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

True Religion at the Parliament of World Religions – Not What you Think

Now that I’ve seen people shouted down, I’m certainly not speaking up. "There is one...

October 17, 2015

How to Stop ISIS Recruiting

At the Council for Foreign Relations lunch there was a vigorous and useful discussion about...

October 17, 2015

Buddhist and Muslim Dialogue for the Earth

The word sacred has two related dimensions. One dimension of something sacred is that it...

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 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 10, 2015

Witnessing to Anxious Tribes: Stop the Steamroller.

The question we then face is how to understand the mission of Christ in a...

July 04, 2015

Two Religions, One Name

Christians belong to one of two different religions that just happen to share the same...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

Muslims on the Rise? Misreading the Pew Report

AHHHHHH! The Muslims are coming the Muslims are coming. I’d barely seen the headlines before...

February 2015

February 14, 2015

Outrage and Anxiety

A couple of weeks ago there was a brief outbreak of good ole American outrage here...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

Civil Dialogue

The problem with the columnists, commentators, politicians, pundits, and pastors is that they honestly believe...

January 18, 2015

Wonder and Dialogue

I decided to spend my Christmas holidays exploring a mystery. What, I wondered, is the...

December 2014

December 28, 2014

The Most . . . .?

We need to get small to get real. . . . Flying back from Jerusalem...

December 25, 2014

Moses at the Manger

Jesus comes with more baggage than Santa Clause. On my flight to Vienna Lufthansa offered,...

October 2014

October 16, 2014

Theological Education Inside Out

In a previous blog I suggested that the idea that the human relationship to religion...

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