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June 2016

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...

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...

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 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 10, 2015

A Level Playing Field in Missouri?

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

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 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 16, 2015

Fear, Loathing and the Parliament of the World’s Religions

One role of religion in human society is to continually affirm that the fears and...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

Its God’s Will. The Hajj Tragedy and Dialogue

If your religion teaches you that under some circumstances you have no moral responsibility for...

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 10, 2015

Wouldn’t I, Wooden Eye, Hairlip Hairlip

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

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...

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...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Love Wins?

Love wins! I’ve seen that posted a dozen times on Facebook since the recent supreme...

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