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September 2015

September 01, 2015

Does the Cross Perpetuate Suffering? (In the Wrong Hands, Yes)

Does the Christian cross, as a symbol of the suffering of Christ, contribute to more...

September 01, 2015

Kim Davis, Democracy, and the Pride of Christian Conviction

Someone needs to tell Kim Davis, County Clerk in Kentucky, that Christendom is over. She...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

How Fundamentalists View Scripture (Via Donald Bloesch)

As a follow up to my post last week on the question, "Did Jesus believe...

August 31, 2015

Yes, I Will Cry When My Daughter Goes to Kindergarten

"From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the new-born...

August 28, 2015

Did Jesus Believe that Scripture is Inerrant?

Did Jesus believe in the inerrancy of Scripture? Rob Bowman recently responded to my post,...

August 26, 2015

Trump’s Favorite Bible Verse? He Doesn’t Want to Get into Specifics

"You mention the Bible..you've been talking about how it's your favorite book...I'm wondering what one...

August 26, 2015

Does the Fire of Religion Warm Us or Burn Us? (Is it the Problem or the Solution?)

Religion gets a bad rap these days--and more and more so all the time, it...

August 25, 2015

Re-imagining Food: Massimo Bottura and the “Chef’s Table”

I'd like to take a detour from my usual blogging fare to recommend to you...

August 24, 2015

We Don’t Need More Passion, Mr. Trump; We Need More Com-passion

The latest Trump-tastic news involves an incident in Boston in which two brothers, Scott and...

August 20, 2015

An Opportunity for Grace: The Ashley Madison Leak and the Church’s Response

Financial hacks are boring. Government hacks are little more interesting--if there's international political intrigue. The...

August 19, 2015

“Time’s Up”: On Ashley Madison and the Morality of Vigilante Hacking

Technology is powerful, complicated, and dangerous. A lot of people who signed up for an...

August 18, 2015

A Progressive Christian View of the Trinity

Elizabeth Johnson's book, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse, is one of...

August 17, 2015

Why Every Pastor Should Spend an Hour on Ex-Christian.Net

This post is my contribution to a Patheos book club discussion on spiritual healing occasioned...

August 14, 2015

Is “Our Father” Sexist or Subversive?

First, let's just acknowledge that God is not literally male. Or female, for that matter....

August 13, 2015

Union and Dis-Unity: On the Pullout from the CCCU

Yesterday Union University announced it will be withdrawing its membership from the CCCU (Coalition of...

August 12, 2015

What’s Up With Those Mennonites?

When I posted about the move by two Mennonite universities to adopt a non-discrimination policy...

August 11, 2015

“But Where Are All the Transitional Fossils?”

Probably the most common critique levied against evolutionary theory by creationists is the issues of...

August 10, 2015

Why Are People Attracted to Intelligent Design?

Intelligent Design (ID) has made a lot of headway in conservative Christian circles over the...

August 07, 2015

On Bullshit: Jon Stewart’s Final Advice is Also a Sophisticated Philosophy

Jon Stewart's closing words last night were fitting. He warned us all to be on...

August 06, 2015

Jon Stewart: A Prophetic Satirist or Satirical Prophet?

Along with millions of others of viewers, I'm going to miss Jon Stewart. At least...

August 05, 2015

Why am I Still a Christian? Because of Hope

Soon after I began my "Leaving Evangelicalism" blog series a few months ago, a Facebook...

August 04, 2015

How to be a Responsible Religious Pluralist

So many people today are struggling to figure out how to relate to one another,...

August 03, 2015

Have we Misunderstood Fear and Anxiety? Can Kierkegaard Help?

A recent New York Magazine article (by Casey Schwartz) discussed the claim that scientists today...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

The Lesson of Cecil the Lion: Reject the Logic of Domination

While the authorities are now hunting Walter Palmer, a lot of people are asking, "What's...

July 29, 2015

Will Progressive Christianity Be More Evangelical?

These are interesting days for American Christianity. We appear to be in the midst of...

July 28, 2015

Five Problems Raised by the Collision of Science and Scripture (Leaving Evangelicalism #7)

This is the seventh post in a series of a series I have been writing...

July 27, 2015

The Real “Fury Road”: America’s Got a Road Rage Problem

America has a rage problem. Often, it's a road rage problem. America has a gun...

July 27, 2015

Does Our Need for Religion Invalidate it?

Why did religion form in early forms of human life? What is the relation between...

July 24, 2015

Four Job Opportunities at Logos Bible Software

I recently received a notice of some job opportunities at Logos Bible Software (now called...

July 24, 2015

How Important is Self-Esteem for our Well-Being?

In The Birth and Death of Meaning, Ernest Becker devotes a major portion of his analysis of...

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