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December 2016

December 30, 2016

Well, At Least It Looks As If Keith Richards Will Survive 2016.

Well, at least it looks as if Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards will survive 2016....

December 29, 2016

Saints and Celebrities Illumine Our Path and Offer Us Mile Markers through the Seasons of Life

What is it about celebrities? Like saints, they transcend their lives, even if in the...

December 27, 2016

“Silence” and the Lambs of Sacrifice: Unprecedented Suffering at Christmastide

The limited run of Martin Scorsese’s Silence that opened two days before Christmas was intended...

December 26, 2016

Christmas Day Is Over, But Jesus’ Life at Christmastide Has Only Just Begun!

If we operate by way of the secular calendar, Christmas is over—except for “after Christmas”...

December 23, 2016

Which Glory, Which Peace Will We Celebrate This Christmas?

Glory and peace go together in Luke’s Gospel. Luke 2:14 states, “Glory to God in...

December 19, 2016

How Social Is Your Trinity? How Our Theologies May Say More About Us Than God

A great deal of talk has centered of late on social trinitarianism, which focuses on...

December 17, 2016

Beyond Fashion and Fanfare: Follow in the Footsteps of Jesus’ Unassuming Love. A Tribute to Clark Blakeman

He has been called Portland's original hipster. At least, a friend called him that the...

December 14, 2016

Jesus Is God’s Solidarity Pin

I don’t recall images of Baby Jesus in swaddling clothes with a safety pin from...

December 09, 2016

“I Don’t Drink from Puritan Theology Often, but When I Do, I Drink from the Theology of the Affections.”

“I don't drink from Puritan theology often, but when I do, I drink from the...

December 08, 2016

How to Put Christ Back in Christmas

Nostalgia can be a good thing. But should we live in it? Take Christmas for...

December 01, 2016

Trauma: The New Normal? It’s No Fiction.

The room was full of thought, but there were not enough chairs to contain it...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

“Risk Floating in the Ether”—A Conversation on Faith and Health

An Interview with Robert Lyman Potter, M.D., Ph.D., by Paul Louis Metzger, Ph.D. Dr. Robert...

November 25, 2016

What Does Thanksgiving Mean for the Indigenous People of the Land?

I remember making crafts for Thanksgiving in grade school accompanied by recounting tales of the Pilgrim...

November 23, 2016

Make the American Christian Great Again: Boast in Your Weaknesses This Thanksgiving

When people, Christians included, speak of making America great again, what do they have in...

November 18, 2016

How Do You Get the U.S. Off Life-Support?

The citizens of the United States have gotten into far too many car wrecks on...

November 15, 2016

What Is the Cure to Partisan Disgust in America? Take An Empathy Pill?

Repulsive. Reprehensible. Disgusting. These are words that convey an omnipresent emotion or sentiment in America...

November 10, 2016

U.S. Presidential Election Results: Did “The Pure People” Defeat “The Corrupt Elite,” Was It “Whitelash,” and/or a Corruption of Evangelical Convictions?

What was the reason or reasons for Donald Trump's earth-shattering Presidential election upset victory? Was...

November 08, 2016

“Black Jeopardy”: What Are We Jeopardizing as the Church and as a Nation?

Perhaps many of you have watched Saturday Night Live’s “Black Jeopardy” with Tom Hanks by...

November 04, 2016

“But What If I Don’t Know Any Black People?”

Sometimes when addressing race issues I am asked, "But what If I don't know any...

November 02, 2016

Jesus Is Not a Christological Definition We Can Put in a Book on a Shelf. He Keeps Jumping Out.

My theology class at Multnomah Biblical Seminary/Multnomah University is going through definitions of Christology. The...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

How Do You Make Conservatives More Liberal, and Liberals More Conservative? Appeal to the Feelings That Drive Them?

A Scientific American article discusses how unconscious reactions shape conservatives and liberals and how attention...

October 25, 2016

Talk About Politics At Church As With Sports (Especially the Chicago Cubs!), Though Perhaps Not Over Dinner.

Some of us were told growing up never to talk about religion and politics over...

October 21, 2016

We Need To Invest In Resolving Conflict At Our Own Expense

Why did Jesus care to resolve the conflict between God and humanity? Jesus was really...

October 19, 2016

Become Less Closed-Minded. Invent Your Own Religion (?)

Today, in my world religions course, we discussed Hinduism. My friend and guest speaker, Mr....

October 13, 2016

Are We Stronger Together If We Avoid One Another?

Secretary Clinton’s campaign slogan is “Stronger Together”. It sounds good. So does her claim that,...

October 11, 2016

What Does It Mean to “Make America Great Again”?

What does it mean to “Make America Great Again”? Does it mean to make us...

October 07, 2016

“You Had One Job, God” (And You Blew It).

Why do we often see the line "You had one job" (implied: and you blew...

October 03, 2016

The Art of Resilience—Like Bamboo in a Typhoon

One of the most moving depictions I have come across in literature is John Steinbeck’s...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

What Is Needed to Live Out the Christian Religion in a Religiously Plural and Global Age? A Whole Lot of “Ortho” (But not the Weed Killer Kind)

What is needed to live out the Christian religion in a religiously plural and global...

September 27, 2016

Selective Hearing: How Do We Move Beyond Party Lines in Public Discourse?

I wonder how often debates sway people politically and religiously. Take for example last night's...

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