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August 2017

August 25, 2017

Hurricane Heroes and the Book of Exodus

With Hurricane Harvey barreling down on the Texas coast, with Galvestonians and Houstonians making their...

August 18, 2017

Beneath the Headlines: Another Presidential Committee Ups and Quits

In the minute-by-minute debacle of modern American politics, it is easy to miss something important....

July 2017

July 20, 2017

The Summer of ’17: Jacob’s Ladder and Esau’s Tragedy

Every year, without fail, we sang the chorus Jacob’s Ladder at church camp. Sung by...

July 13, 2017

Summer of ’17: Sibling Rivalry on Steroids

Priscilla and I had three miscarriages before we had our daughter Chloe and son Jeremy....

July 06, 2017

The Summer of ’17: the Amazing Disappearing Man!

When I was a kid, my older sisters would say, “He’s useless.” No. That’s not...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

The Summer of ’17: Fragile

When our son Jeremy was just a kid, he often set himself up in the...

June 22, 2017

The Summer of ’17: a Summer of Trysts and Turns

The lectionary last week ... Wait! Did I start a blog post with the word lectionary? How...

June 21, 2017

Stuff the Style: Reflections on Preaching from Jimmy Dunn

I'm reading through Jimmy Dunn's thick, beautiful, provocative book, Jesus and the Spirit. Enthralled, I've...

June 02, 2017

This Pentecost, Dump the Red and Go Green!

Normally Pentecost has its own color, red, to remember the fire that hovered over Jesus’...

March 2017

March 04, 2017

The Detritus of Dreams

I saw this photograph today from Parsons School of Design in a New York Times...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

The Cross and the Old Testament (with a little help from NT Wright)

In 1978, it became clear to my director of studies at Christ’s College—a little-known, shy,...

February 14, 2017

Refugees: The Great Reversal

What's the most cherished verse of the Bible? For many Christians, it has to be...

February 13, 2016

Is Christian Higher Education Dead? The Debate Continues

So Daniel Kirk has set the terms of the discussion in the wrong way. He...

February 10, 2016

What’s for Lent?

Would someone want to join me here, in my interior, in my soul, and cozy...

December 2015

December 21, 2015

Guns, God, and Advent

We walked in, waited a bit in line, looking at this strange species of human:...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Phyllis Tickle Behind the Scenes

Monday through Wednesday find me buried in classes and teaching, so I didn’t receive word...

September 09, 2015

Does It Matter If You’re Right?

What then characterizes a Spirit-filled church? Not the swaying or swagger of people in motion....

August 2015

August 12, 2015

Sanity About the Spirit: Not in 1 Corinthians!

Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians doesn’t contain, then, what we hope it promises: a...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

5 Reasons Why We Need More Guns on Campus

Why solve with community effort what could otherwise be resolved by a gunshot to the...

June 01, 2015

Pope Francis on How to Prepare a Sermon

The pope and I agree. He's in very good company! (Okay, I'll admit, it goes...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

The Promise of Pentecost You May Not Know

In the days prior to that first Pentecost, Jesus’ followers were huddled together, gathered around...

May 07, 2015

Scot McKnight’s A Fellowship Of Differents

What happens when you cross a top notch New Testament scholar, a genuinely funny guy,...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

When Will the Untold Stories End? Another Entry for Black History Month

Guest essay by Priscilla Pope-Levison Around the turn of the nineteenth century, Emma Ray and...

February 17, 2015

Can o’ Corn! A Simple Practice for a Significant Lent

“Can o’ corn!” my high school baseball coach, Coach Hogan, used to quip whenever one...

February 16, 2015

Why Do We Give Up Something for Lent?

Deborah Arca, director of All Things Patheos, from my perspective, asked the question, Why does...

February 08, 2015

The Holy Spirit: so much left to learn!

If you, like me, feel you’ve still got much more to learn—much more to experience,...

February 08, 2015

The Holy Spirit From Day One

At this point in the Bible—about the seventeenth word—God hasn’t yet dipped a ladle into...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Is the Spirit in Everyone, even Richard Dawkins?

This morning I watched, in a half-embarrassed sort of way, while Nicola Menzie, of The Christian Post,...

January 26, 2015

I Dare You! A pre-Lenten Challenge

What struck me in the aftermath was how much—I think this was genuine—the Seahawk players...

January 20, 2015

Life After a Shooting: The Metamorphosis of a College Campus

The real test of a community is not its immediate reaction to grief -- but...