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October 2023

October 14, 2023

The Year of the Locust: A Sermon on War

Today I have war on my mind. A week ago, a surprise attack on Jewish...

December 2022

December 13, 2022

Advent Is When Christians Talk about Hope. But Is There Any? 

Advent, the Christian liturgical season leading up to Christmas, is the time when songs and...

May 2022

May 11, 2022

Why I Am Not (Quite) a Universalist

Last week I promised to re-open the elephant-sized door and discuss Last Judgment. I'll frame...

May 07, 2022

Doing Theology with Integrity

Last week, in a blog about faith, I wrote the following: If we decouple self-awareness...

April 2022

April 22, 2022

Hegel on the Way to Heaven

Warning, readers: today’s column walks through some weedy speculative philosophy. To quote Lemony Snicket, you should...

April 16, 2022

What is Resurrection? 

As Easter approaches in western Christendom, I find myself asking a very basic question of...

March 2022

March 30, 2022

Heaven for Animals?

Do Dogs Go To Heaven? Last week I received a very serious and very sad...

February 2022

February 09, 2022

The Easter Faith of Stephen Colbert

In an interview last week on CBS’s The Late Show, British singer Dua Lipa took...

December 2021

December 18, 2021

Does God Remember a Lost Future?

What does it mean, theologically, to grieve a lost future? I have been doing some...

December 11, 2021

What is Hell?

The Bible is ambiguous when it comes to defining hell. Still, I have notice a...

December 08, 2021

What Is Heaven? Part 2

I wrote in my last column about heaven. Specifically, the idea of heaven as the...

December 04, 2021

What is Heaven?

A quick scan of the Bible gives us several ways of understanding the term “heaven.”...

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