December 2021 - The Diagonal Way

December 29, 2021

Before we left campus for Christmas, my colleague Rev. Dr. Dominique Robinson at Seminary of...

December 26, 2021

OK Christmas, can we talk about the Virgin Birth? After our recent Advent service of...

December 22, 2021

Why do so many Advent and Christmas carols feel sad? Also: why does that make...

December 18, 2021

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

December 15, 2021

“Subjectivity is truth.” That is the famous and famously cryptic sentence at the heart of...

December 11, 2021

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

December 08, 2021

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

December 04, 2021

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

December 01, 2021

In this first week of Advent, I'm contemplating Mary the Godbearer. All who celebrate Christmas...