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April 2017

April 16, 2017

Our God is too Small

On Easter Sunday as I listen to the familiar hymns I’m contemplating one of the...

April 03, 2017

Privilege and the Loss of Personhood

I recently read a book review that got me thinking about privilege. As it happened I’d...

March 2017

March 23, 2017

At the Intersection of Exclusion

An editorial in the New York Times on Wednesday March 8th, a feminist who is...

February 2017

February 05, 2017

America’s Forever Immigrants

It has often been said the the United States was founded on immigration. And that...

January 2017

January 20, 2017

The Anti-Semitism in the Heart of Christianity

Anti-Judaism is as old as the United States of America. Indeed, it is really as old...

January 17, 2017

No Exit?

In a few hours i’ll fly out of Tel Aviv to return to the US....

January 14, 2017

When Inter-religious Dialogue Isn’t Enough

I’ve been in Israel and the Palestinian territories nearly 20 times in the last 20...

January 01, 2017

Death Comes to All Things

Live Large in the New Year! I usually try to understand fully the different forms...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

The Hollowness of Ethics Without Relationships

I've been thinking about why the carefully crafted statements from all sides analyzing the relationship between...

December 27, 2016

No Freedom Outside the Box

I have suggested that we need wide open public spaces if we are thrive as...

December 11, 2016

A Little Discomfort in Public Places

I have lived in many different cultural contexts around the world. And because I frankly...

December 10, 2016

Banning the Burqa: the New Exile

The core value of modern democracy is the liberation achieved by participation in public life....

December 01, 2016

Will the Real Islam Please Stand Up?

Yesterday a journalist called me. Billboards have appeared around Dallas with a message about Islam...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

The Moral Divide

The recent election should help clarify what is (or should be) immediately obvious in inter-religious...

November 18, 2016

You Can’t See When You Turn Your Back

In an earlier blog I suggested that in the United States there were two different religions...

November 07, 2016

Divided We Fall – Thank God

Today (Nov 5) the Dallas Morning News ran an commentary explaining 10 reasons that a...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Is God Great?

Sunday morning I heard something unsettling. We were invited to join in a vibrant chorus...

October 14, 2016

We Live in Different Worlds

A CNN interview has been posted to my Facebook page. Those posting it expressed shock...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

The Bible on Non-Christian Religions

What does the Bible say about non-Christian Religions? The simple answer is nothing, for the...

September 20, 2016

The Assimilation Debate

Recently Facebook, bringer of many things, brought me two. The first was a quote from...

September 18, 2016

The Real Schism, It’s Not What you Think.

The United Methodist church appears to be following other major protestant denominations into the throes...

September 04, 2016

Depravity and Political Discourse

Among the many things that some Christians believe one is the doctrine of Total depravity....

September 02, 2016

Let’s Talk about Burkhinis!

So I’m trolling through Facebook postings and I find an article on a French ban...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

You Can’t Love People and Hate Their Religion

In the Christian polemic against Muslims a common theme emerges. A specific instance comes from...

July 2016

July 09, 2016

The Bright Heart of Dallas

In the last 48 hours the city of Dallas has reeled with grief. Grief felt...

July 06, 2016

It Isn’t About Us. Really.

The New York Times recently ran yet another “why aren’t Westerns outraged” articles after the...

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...

July 01, 2016

Istanbul, Could It Happen Anywhere? No.

A day after the bombings in the airport in Istanbul the BBC Newsclaster breathless bloviated,...

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 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...

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