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April 2015

April 09, 2015

Top 10 Ways Mimetic Theory Can Help Create Interfaith Empathy – A Panel Discussion

was delighted to be invited to an international discussion about creating more empathy between people...

April 06, 2015

Ishtar vs. Easter: Pick Your Story

In the midst of my family’s Easter celebration yesterday, I decided to check Facebook....

April 03, 2015

A God Torn to Pieces: Good Friday, Nietzsche, and Sacrifice

Friedrich Nietzsche is a favorite whipping boy among Christians. It’s difficult to blame my fellow...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

“Did God Kill Jesus?” A Response to Tony Jones

We were halfway through our youth group’s class on Holy Week. We discussed Palm Sunday...

March 19, 2015

My Biggest Concern for My Gay Son is Religion: On Being Catholic and Gay

I recently wrote about a former member of my church youth group. She was everything...

March 16, 2015

Is God the Biggest Serial Killer of All Time? – A Response to the Friendly Atheist

The Friendly Atheist is one of the most influential atheist blogs on the Internet....

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Happy Presidents Day! – On Mimetic Theory and How I Lost Political Ambition

Like many children growing up in the US, I had dreams of becoming the president....

February 03, 2015

Top 4 Ways to Criticize without Scapegoating

Criticism. It’s an ugly word. Just reading it there makes me cringe. And there’s so...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

Who is God: Part 2: The Holy Spirit and judgmental gods not worth believing in

Ask anyone to tell you about the Holy Spirit and you will likely receive blank...

January 19, 2015

John McCain, Mitt Romney, and America’s Insane Foreign Policy

John McCain recently held a press conference where he speculated on a third Mitt...

January 14, 2015

4 Things You Need to Know about Terrorism and Religion

After my article on the terrorism in Paris last week, readers offered some thoughtful critiques...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Top 5 Ways to Be More Peaceful in 2015

At 35, I discovered years ago that New Year’s resolutions are a practice in failure....

December 17, 2014

Advent: The Faith to Scream “It’s Not Okay!”

She sat in total shock. Her head rested in her hands as her long hair...

December 15, 2014

American Values: Why the Torture Report Didn’t Go Far Enough

Last Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its report of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques...

December 08, 2014

Why God is Sending Christians Straight to Hell

So much of Christianity has become about avoiding hell. But if there’s one thing I’ve...

December 04, 2014

Big Hero 6: How to Love like a Superhero

“I love Baymax! He is the nicest superhero ever!” – My son, age 7 “Of...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Oprah, the One Question, and Mimetic Desire

Oprah Winfrey is used to asking the questions, but there is one question that everyone...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

What ISIL Beheadings Can Teach Us about God and The Cross

What’s the difference between a beheading and a crucifixion? I ask the question as a...

September 10, 2014

The NFL, Ray Rice, and Keith Olbermann – I Accuse Us

A second video surfaced on Monday that confirmed what many already knew to be true...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

NT Wright and a Genuine Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory

What is God like? What are humans like? When it comes to the Atonement, those...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

Live Chat with Brian McLaren: We Make the Road by Walking: A Book Review

On Thursday, July 31 at 3:00 Eastern, we interviewed the highly influential activist, author, and...

July 24, 2014

Michael Hardin on the Nonviolent Atonement, Mimetic Theory, and Science

Michael Hardin of Preaching Peace is one of the greatest teachers of mimetic theory and...

July 18, 2014

Battling to the End in Israel/ Palestine

Sometimes a blog just writes itself. I’m preparing to attend the annual academic conference on...

July 17, 2014

Why I Hope Ann Coulter is Right: Soccer and the Moral Decay of the United States

In the midst the World Cup, conservative columnist Ann Coulter wrote a scathing article about...

July 15, 2014

Fr. Richard Schenk on Mimetic Theory, World War 1, and “Battling to the End”

The annual conference of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion begins next week! This conference...

July 10, 2014

The Hidden Cost of Pride

Why are you working so hard to disprove God? From I Origins movie Trailer A...

July 02, 2014

Hobby Lobby, Rivalry and Choosing Grace

Though Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby has been argued and decided by the highest court in...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

The Bible is Not A Myth: God’s Patience with a Tone Deaf People

I don’t know where God gets the patience. We are absolutely the most difficult people...

June 18, 2014

Goodness for Sale: A Consumer Report

What’s the difference between fake goodness and the real thing? Good people want to know....

June 07, 2014

The Amazing Spider-Man’s Subversive Empathy

Anthony Bartlett claims in his book Virtually Christian that, In movies, on the web, on...

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