Harold Camping Is Not Sorry
Harold Camping admits he was wrong, but only in the most technical way. He wasn’t really wrong, he is saying, because he trusts God, and was just passing God’s false prophecy along. It’s not that he’s...
View ArticleComing Out As a Heretic
For folks who are unorthodox but aren’t atheists, who care about metaphysics but who aren’t mystics, perhaps the good old-fashioned term “heretic” will satisfy.
View ArticleHerman Cain Sings For the Press
Jesus may be looking beyond the candidate's faults, but we're not.
View ArticleFaith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL
Who knew it would turn out that the NFL has a thing or two to teach the gospel church about love, acceptance, and the struggle to overcome in a world of injustice?
View ArticleToward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren
What McLaren is after is a Christian faith that is not automatically hostile to other faiths and to no faith: he calls this “strong-benevolent” Christianity, observing along the way that only active...
View ArticleNo Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead
Title: Talking to the Dead: Music, Religion, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women Author: LeRhonda...
View Article‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood
With bonus: 12 Quotes from the Underwood Bible
View ArticleRubio’s Awkward Balancing Act Between Evangelicals and Catholics
Marco Rubio’s “Faith” evangelical outreach ad, which debuted in Iowa over the weekend, can be seen...
View ArticleWhy Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful
I have had the honor of working extensively with the Rev. Dr. William Barber II,...
View ArticlePaul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair
A younger Paul Schrader might have chosen to end this film, which many critics are calling his masterpiece, in apocalyptic violence. But I don’t think it’s quite right to conclude that Schrader has...
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