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June 11, 2025

MLK and the “Higher Law”

Martin Luther King believed and said that “man’s law” is not the “higher law” and...

June 09, 2025

Living Out of Control: Prefigurative Politics

This is another installment of the current book discussion of Living Out of Control:...

June 05, 2025

What Germany Did to Families of Resistance Members

The conspiracy to assassinate Hitler was wider and deeper than many people realize. One of...

June 02, 2025

Living Out of Control: The Bible’s Renewed Relevance

In Chapter Two (of the book currently under discussion here—Living Out of Control by Rodney...

May 2025

May 29, 2025

Black Magic Among Christians?

Recently, according to news reports, a leading mega church pastor and evangelist with close...

May 27, 2025

Can an Atheist Teach to Love?

This is a follow-up and clarification of my two recent posts in which I talked...

May 25, 2025

Living Out of Control: Responsibility as Response-ability

Here I continue ongoing discussion of the book Living Out Of Control: Political and Personal...

May 22, 2025

Follow Up About “Christendom”

A true story. Some years ago I was invited to serve on a community task...

May 21, 2025

Is Christendom Necessarily Always Bad?

Whether “Christendom” is necessarily and always bad depends on what it means. Anyway, that is...

May 18, 2025

Living Out of Control: After Christendom or…?

Here I begin discussion of a new book: Living Out of Control: Political and Personal...

May 16, 2025

What Do We Really Know? Rethinking Knowledge and Belief

What Is “Knowledge?” I have discussed here before my views about truth, certainty, and doubt....

May 13, 2025

Is Doubt a Threat—or a Tool—for Christian Faith?

Christian Thoughts about Doubt Frederick Buechner famously wrote that “Doubts are the ants in...

May 10, 2025

A New Book Discussion: Living Out of Control

Beginning on Monday, May 19 I will launch a new book discussion here. The chosen...

May 08, 2025

How to Grow a Church (In America Now)

Here is my recipe for growing a church. It is based on my own observations...

May 05, 2025

Evangelical Fear of One-World Rule Still Echoes Today

Another Evangelical Anxiety My recent post here was about white American evangelical anxieties of the...

May 02, 2025

How Evangelical Fear Shaped Politics and Trump Support

Evangelical Anxieties I grew up “in the thick of” white American evangelical Christianity in the...

April 2025

April 29, 2025

Jesus and the Aliens Among Us: A Biblical Mandate

Jesus and the “Aliens” Recently, I posted here a long list of Old Testament scripture...

April 25, 2025

God’s Commands about Immigrants Among Us

Scripture Passages about Aliens (Migrants); Foreigners Hebrew “nekar” Exodus 22:21 (NRSV) 21 You shall not...

April 23, 2025

Why Good Education Requires the Broad View

Good Education What is “good education?” Of course, like so many words, “education” has different...

April 20, 2025

Neoliberalism’s Demons: This Present Darkness

Here I return to discussion of theologian Adam Kotsko’s book Neoliberalism’s Demons: The Political Theology...

April 18, 2025

Was Hitler Nice?

By many accounts, Adolf Hitler was a nice man. I have read many books about...

April 16, 2025

For Theology and Philosophy Nerds

Lately I have been reviewing some old readings, ones I read and studied years ago:...

April 13, 2025

Neoliberalisms’s Demons

Here I continue discussion of the book Neoliberalism’s Demons: The Political Theology of Late Capital...

April 10, 2025

Why Calvinism’s Logic About God’s Goodness Fails

Why Calvinism Cannot Be True I have written about this before—why Calvinism cannot be true....

April 09, 2025

A Mysterious Topic: Mystery, Paradox, Contradiction

One way in which some well-meaning but misguided persons have attempted to resolve the seemingly...

April 07, 2025

Neoliberalism’s Demons Chapter 2: The Political and…

Here I continue discussion of theologian Adam Kotsko’s book Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology...

April 04, 2025

“Power Without Empathy Is A Sin”

Only the Weak Will Fail “Only the weak will fail.” (Donald Trump) “Power Without Empathy...

April 03, 2025

Why Do Few Christians Believe in the Trinity?

According to a poll conducted by Arizona Christian University and reviewed by George Barna, only...

March 2025

March 31, 2025

Neoliberalism’s Demons

Here I begin discussion of theologian Adam Kotsko’s 2018 book Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political...

March 28, 2025

Is Kenotic Christology a Heresy?

Another flare up in the controversy over kenotic Christology. Numerous YouTube diatribes against it, linking...