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September 2014

September 01, 2014

Indifference, not Skepticism, is the issue.

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

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Interfaith Dialogue with Atheists

Real dialogue is necessary, not over the important secondary matter of whether God exists, but...

June 02, 2014

Got Religion? Maybe this book can help you.

Naomi Schaefer Riley sums up what she learned about getting post-college millenials back to the...

May 2014

May 21, 2014

Who did you say you represent?

How can there be a dialogue about sexuality with only men? How can there be...

May 21, 2014

Sexual Desire versus Sexuality

We may call ourselves and others human, but that is a word that hides more...

May 06, 2014

What is Spirituality?

At a recent party I was asked about my spirituality. I replied that I was...

May 05, 2014

Religious Freedom? Not So Fast.

The Christian responsibility, when invited to pray in public, is not to pray “in the...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Nope, we really don’t agree . . .

At recent dialogue event, Faiths in Coversation on April 28th here in Dallas, Doug Skinner,...

March 2014

March 04, 2014

A Living Story is the Death of Arrogance

Arrogance isn't hard to find in Christian circles. It comes from believing that I, or...

February 2014

February 15, 2014

Its All About Us

Its all about us isn't it? At least one source of our Christian arrogance comes...

February 11, 2014

Arrogant Monotheism

Let's be up front. There is something about the self-understandings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Belonging to Multiple Religions? Or Owning Them?

On a recent trip I spent three days with my wife's family. You know that...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

The Indigenous American Religion

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is the indigenous religion of the United States from its inception, the...

March 2013

March 06, 2013

The Curse of the (Social) Creed

We have turned humanity into an object of Christian faith, and social behaviors into essential...

February 2013

February 08, 2013

Establishing Religion?

Should private companies be able to establish the religious beliefs of their owners as the...

February 01, 2013

Science and Religion – an Interfaith Encounter.

Yesterday I was one of three speakers at a forum on science and religion. Speaking...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Jesus or JR?

Over the last couple of years I've had the opportunity to talk with working scriptwriters...

January 22, 2013

The Failure of the Christian Narrative?

It is no news that fewer and fewer Americans, especially young Americans, have no religious...

January 12, 2013

Religious Leadership and the Religions

You aren't a leader if you can't lead across cultures in a complex religious environment. ...

January 12, 2013

Leadership, Religion, and Religions

You aren't a leader if you can't lead across cultures in a complex religious environment....

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Time to Exclude, and Invite, and be True

Recently my friend Mike Ghouse wrote an article promoting a kind of interfaith Christmas. ()...

December 01, 2012

Do Jews, Christians, and Muslims Worship the Same God?

Do Jews, Christians, and Muslims Worship the Same God? Abingdon Press, 2012 (with Baruch Levine,...

November 2012

November 02, 2012

Reaching the Nones

We need a Ptolemaic shift to see that the church isn't the center of anybody's...

October 2012

October 13, 2012

Freedom From Religion?

As a nation we need to recognize the vast difference between religiously plural, and religiously...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Religion is the Problem

"I also want to say that Islam, beyond the exaggerations, points the finger at something...

September 09, 2012

The Platform of Christian Hope

The two political conventions are behind us. Americans and the world have heard what hope...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

Jesus the CEO?

In my last blog I suggested that the classical understanding of Christ as prophet, priest,...

August 03, 2012

Romney on Culture?

Mitt Romney recently found out a few things about culture and Middle East diplomacy, but...

July 2012

July 13, 2012

Divine Mandate, Dialogue Disaster?

How do we enter into respectful dialogue with another religious viewpoint when that religious viewpoint...

July 06, 2012

Lost in Translation?

Sunday morning. Christians gather for worship: meaningful fragments of hymns are offered, praise choruses are...

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