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August 2016

August 16, 2016

All Good Belongs to God

Luke 11:14 Now he was casting out a demon that was mute; when the demon had...

August 13, 2016

The Re-Paganing of America and God’s Eternal Word

We need a little less extra ecclesiam nulla salus and a little more logospermatikos. (Catholics...

July 2016

July 13, 2016

The Kentucky Ark – Is it Really Christian?

In Northwestern Kentucky a new religion has appeared - with its temple a theme park...

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...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Orthodoxy: You Cannot Return by that Door

Steve Rankin, laying out an agenda for scholars concerned with orthodoxy says this: "First, we...

April 04, 2016

The Great Divorce

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

April 04, 2016

Progressive Christianity: An Appreciation

This is the second of two blogs on the Evangelical - Progressive Divide. For there...

April 04, 2016

Evangelicalism: an Appreciation

This is the first of three blogs on the Evangelical - Progressive Divide. For there...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

Easter is a Gateway to the Ordinary

We all overthink it; that hard question about what becomes of us after our body...

December 2015

December 19, 2015

Is Jesus the Reason for the Season? No.

"Jesus is the reason for the season." I keep hearing it: the older cliched version...

December 16, 2015

At Wheaton: No God but Our God

A Wheaton Professor, Larycia Alaine Hawkins has been suspended for posting on Facebook that Christians...

December 11, 2015

Concerning Armed Demonstrations At Mosques

Yesterday a group of prominent Dallas religious leaders of all faiths met to begin acting...

December 10, 2015

How to Disempower ISIS and Why We Are Failing

To understand anyone you have to ask how do they understand themselves. But now Americans...

September 2015

September 20, 2015

Progressive Christians, Conservative Christians, and when Tolerance is Irrelevant

Once again I found posted on Facebook the accusation that progressive Christians who “preach tolerance”...

September 02, 2015

Kim Davis and Religious Freedom: A Supernova of Religious Scruples

A county clerk in Kentucky says her religious freedom is threatened by signing government documents. A...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

The Religion of Business

As Christian America comes unglued, there are new possibilities for inter-religious dialogue with an unlikely...

July 2015

July 08, 2015

ANXIETY AND THE NEW TRIBES

Despite the fact that the emerging tribes in the US seek to secure their identity...

July 06, 2015

Christian Witness among Anxious New Tribes 1

There is in the modern world, even beyond the North Atlantic realm, a deep consciousness that public...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Extremists versus Free Speech

Recently the American Freedom Defense Initiative () led by the famous bikini blogger Pamela Geller, ()...

May 21, 2014

Same Kind of Different

An inter-religious dialogue on sex, marriage, and homosexuality raised more questions that it answered. At...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

The Stakes in Inter-Religious Relations

Those who follow this blog may have noticed a recurrent theme in the discussions. It...

April 2013

April 15, 2013

Real Evangelism for the 21st Century

When the world changes, all commitments must be renewed. Our churches are filled primarily with...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

Human Nature and its Clueless Detractors

The fantasy filled fear-mongers like Louie Gohmert and Wayne LaPierre don't just misrepresnt Muslims or...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Global Religion and Isolationist Dialogue

As I read through various newspapers these last few weeks the news brought me this:...

November 19, 2012

Faith, Religion, Dialogue, and Exclusion

Yesterday I attended a meeting to discuss the study of interfaith and/or inter-eligious relations and...

November 15, 2012

Religious Obligations, Morality, and the Modern Pluralistic State

States should only enforce those social obligations that are shared by all members of a...

November 06, 2012

Take Thou Authority?

The issue of pedagogy, how to teach what is being taught, must permeate every course...

November 04, 2012

None(s) in Church?

A gospel that offers non-Christians a bland religious mono-culture will be justifiably rejected as irrelevant....

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Tolerance is the Language of Oppression

I just received an announcement for an upcoming event in Dallas. Here it is in...

October 18, 2012

No Freedom from Religion

My last blog got a lot of response from atheists who felt I had misunderstood...

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