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2023-12-31 Do People Care About the Bible?
2023-12-31 Death: The Cost of Conviction: On Kenny Smith, Alabama & Me
2023-12-30 Preserving Our Religious Freedom in America
2023-12-30 No Happy New Year Greetings This Year Until Ceasefire
2023-12-30 Why Our New Year Must Include One Another
2023-12-30 Form Christian Culture: 3 Keys According To Saint Augustine
2023-12-30 Follow this refugee family's quest for survival in Gaza
2023-12-29 Today’s Massacre of the Innocents in Gaza and Israel
2023-12-29 Checking Our Predictions for 2023
2023-12-28 Do The God-Fearers have a place in the Catholic Church?
2023-12-28 Why was Jesus born in Bethlehem?
2023-12-28 Trump as Our Example...
2023-12-28 The Politics of Praise
2023-12-28 Theological Reasoning from a Naturalist Perspective
2023-12-28 C. S. Lewis's "Christmas Sermon for Pagans"
2023-12-28 Christian Nationalism And The Denial Of Justice
2023-12-27 Legislative Posturing with the CA Gender Neutral Toy Bill
2023-12-27 A New Year, Intro to Project 2025, Threats to Freedom & Life
2023-12-27 The Lutheran Connection to Advent Calendars
2023-12-27 Why My Governor’s a Goat
2023-12-27 Pray like a Professional: Pray like John the Evangelist
2023-12-26 The Holy Family, Model for Holy Families
2023-12-26 Same-Sex Blessings and the Case Against the Pope
2023-12-26 The lies we believe about Gazan Christians are killing them
2023-12-26 The Anniversary of Nativity Scenes
2023-12-26 The Source of Hope in a Violent Year
2023-12-25 A Christmas Miscellany, 2023 A.D.
2023-12-24 Baby, It's Cold Outside
2023-12-24 Priest Defends Same-Sex Nativity Scene--An Anti-Fascist Act
2023-12-24 "Christ in the Rubble" by Kelly Latimore
2023-12-24 Religious Liberty for the Condemned: On Kenny Smith and Us
2023-12-23 We Must Do 3 Things to Hear God, Says Pope Francis
2023-12-23 Dunwell, Satanic Temple, and Christian Nationalism's Failing
2023-12-23 The Light of the World in the Shadow of Empire
2023-12-22 Indigo - the Color of Grief
2023-12-22 Have a (slightly) blue Christmas
2023-12-22 Why Every Christian Should Support Israel
2023-12-22 Pope Francis Wants a Welcoming Church
2023-12-22 In Honor of Pondering Lives
2023-12-22 Hamas, Bible Prophecy, and Dispensationalism
2023-12-22 DISCUSSION: Christmas
2023-12-22 Parable of the Weeds on Death Row: Jeff Hood & Bart Johnson
2023-12-22 2023 Reflections: The Year in Review
2023-12-21 Subversive Narratives of Advent, Part 3
2023-12-21 How Not to Fix Higher Education
2023-12-20 Respect and Faithfulness (The Law and the Prophets: Part 2)
2023-12-20 Range of Reactions towards Same-Sex Blessings and The Pope
2023-12-20 Subversive Narratives of Advent, Part 2
2023-12-20 End Times Secularist Style
2023-12-20 Colorado Supreme Court Throws Trump Off the Ballot
2023-12-20 Symbolic Magic And The Dead In Arlington
2023-12-19 Blessing Same-Sex Unions? 5 Things to Keep in Mind
2023-12-19 Subversive Narratives of Advent, Part 1
2023-12-19 Is a Dictatorship "Increasingly Inevitable"?
2023-12-19 Conflict in Palestine
2023-12-18 My Brief Glimpse Into Being Black
2023-12-18 Can Catholics Do Yoga?
2023-12-18 Court May Be Right, But Teacher's Wrong
2023-12-18 Monday Miscellany, 12/18/23
2023-12-18 The war on Gaza and the evangelical response; Part 2
2023-12-18 It's Not All About Me - a Late Advent Reflection
2023-12-17 Losing Consciousness: Hidden Dangers of Nitrogen Hypoxia
2023-12-17 Israeli forces kill two Christian women in church compound
2023-12-17 Jesus is the MVP-Most Valuable Palestinian
2023-12-16 No! No! UFO
2023-12-16 Religious Nationalism is Globally Increasing, also in Texas
2023-12-15 Santa Claus and Grace
2023-12-15 DISCUSSION: Who Would Be Your Pick for Person of the Year?
2023-12-14 Where is the Real War on Christmas?
2023-12-14 Dark and Dangerous Words Hurt Us All
2023-12-14 Advent and the Joy of Working for a Better World, Part 3
2023-12-14 Instrumentalizing the Gospel
2023-12-14 Pope Francis And The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
2023-12-14 Spiritual Advisor Sues Alabama Over Nitrogen Execution
2023-12-14 3 Takeaways from 2023 at the Newman Center Pasadena
2023-12-13 The Abortion Solution: Repeal The 19th Amendment
2023-12-13 Christianity = Love; Christian Nationalism = Power and Hate
2023-12-13 Advent and the Joy of Working for a Better World, Part 2
2023-12-13 Napoleon Complex
2023-12-12 Martin Luther King, Jr., AL's Death Penalty & Kenneth Smith
2023-12-12 Can Buddhism Save the World?
2023-12-12 Please Think Better about Race
2023-12-12 Soul Injury: Kenneth Smith's Botched Execution & Nitrogen
2023-12-12 5 Keys to Celebrate Blessings in Your Marriage
2023-12-12 Experience Joy to Understand Christmas
2023-12-12 Advent and the Joy of Working for a Better World, Part 1
2023-12-12 On the Radicals' Takeover of Higher Education
2023-12-12 Four Ways We All Seek Status
2023-12-11 The King James Bible and the Problem of Translation
2023-12-11 Pope Francis: Transgender People Can Be Baptized and Be Godparents
2023-12-11 Monday Miscellany, 12/11/23
2023-12-11 3 Ways Religion Helps Us Embrace Complexity
2023-12-11 Challenging the Church to be the Church in a time of war
2023-12-10 An Old White Man Preacher Has a Word for Women Preachers
2023-12-10 Why Conservative & Progressive Don't Belong With Christian
2023-12-10 A challenging meditation on "I heard the bells on Christmas Day"
2023-12-09 The Ghost of Fearless Future — A Christmas Parody
2023-12-09 Are Christians Required to Believe in the Bible?
2023-12-08 Progressive Nihilism
2023-12-08 DISCUSSION: Will Evangelicals "Rise Up" Against Trump?
2023-12-07 The Bible, Black Poets, and the Blues
2023-12-07 Advent and Change from the Margins, Part 3
2023-12-07 Non-Institutional Christianity?
2023-12-07 Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right
2023-12-07 God’s Plan for Marriage: Friendship and Love
2023-12-06 Is Truth "Tribal?"
2023-12-06 God’s People, Bahara’ And the World
2023-12-06 Mike Johnson, The Epitome of Christian Nationalist Ideology, says God will punish "Depraved" US Because More Youth Identify as LGBTQ+
2023-12-06 12 Reasons Why Not to Be More Religious Than Jesus
2023-12-06 Advent and Change from the Margins, Part 2
2023-12-06 Major Case Involving Lutheran High School & Hillsdale College
2023-12-05 Prelude to a Sermon
2023-12-05 Jesus Coming on the Clouds or Our Heads in the Clouds?
2023-12-05 Advent and Change from the Margins, Part 1
2023-12-05 Catholics, Please Support our Pope During the Advent Season if You Haven't Already--Marginalized Lives are in Danger
2023-12-05 Celebrating Christ's Three Advents
2023-12-05 When Pastors Play God and Prey
2023-12-05 Tolkien And War: Would Tolkien Be Horrified In The Way His Fans Approach His Works?
2023-12-05 There Is One Type Of Republican I Could Support
2023-12-04 Love, Bread, and Spaceships with Rob Bell
2023-12-04 Three Ways to Live Advent as Mission, following St. John the Baptist
2023-12-04 What's The Apocalyptic Doing in Advent?
2023-12-04 Caste - When Words become Weapons
2023-12-04 Monday Miscellany, 12/4/23
2023-12-04 Stop Dehumanizing and Demonizing Your Enemies!
2023-12-04 Israel-Gaza: Do those in power really want peace?
2023-12-04 How Heresy can Lead to Truth: When Being Wrong is Right
2023-12-03 God’s People, Qura' And God’s Purposes
2023-12-03 Climate Change: How Can We Better Care for God's Creation?
2023-12-03 Can followers of the Prince of Peace support a group that uses violence?
2023-12-02 Why Do People Worship Themselves?
2023-12-02 The Near-Death Experience of a Death Row Inmate: Michael Bane
2023-12-02 Spiritual Warfare in Congress?
2023-12-01 Eradicating White Christian Nationalism Through Love and Action--Thank you, Pope Francis and Other Faith Leaders
2023-12-01 The Temptation Of Jesus
2023-12-01 How is God Coming Into Our World? A Reflection on Advent
2023-12-01 The Connection of Family to Faith
2023-12-01 DISCUSSION: Funny Stuff
2023-12-01 The Magnificat for the Modern Day
2023-12-01 Why the Holocaust isn't just one genocide among many
2023-12-01 Why support for Palestinian resistance is the right response for Christians
2023-11-30 Woke Like Jesus
2023-11-30 Advent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 3
2023-11-30 The Coming Generation of Clergy
2023-11-30 Get Ready for Confession: First Week of Advent
2023-11-30 Lessons From Losing My Mind in Las Vegas:The Fear and Loathing of Imitating Hunter S. Thompson
2023-11-30 Why the Descendants of Racist Segregationists Still Attempt to Oppress Voting Rights
2023-11-30 This Is How the Political Evangelical Alliance Might End
2023-11-29 Advent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 2
2023-11-29 The Psychology of Political Violence
2023-11-29 Jesus is Coming: Get Ready
2023-11-29 Details From an Ordinary Sunday at a Progressive Christian Church That Might Surprise You
2023-11-29 Details From a Progressive Christian Church Service That Might Surprise You
2023-11-28 Our Spiritual Legacy: Torah, Lovingkindness, Struggle, Uncertainty
2023-11-28 All-Sponsor Extravaganza Show
2023-11-28 What's Up Doc? The Secrets of Hillsong Reactions
2023-11-28 Advent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 1
2023-11-28 The Root of Anti-Immigrant and Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation is White Christian Nationalism, Not Authentic Christianity
2023-11-28 A World Without Work?
2023-11-28 The Subversive, Confrontational, Emboldening Stories of Christmas {Part Two}
2023-11-28 Sean Feucht: The Ramen Shaman's Political Puppet Show
2023-11-27 Unforgivable Sins: Understanding the Limits of Divine Forgiveness
2023-11-27 As a Mom of Two Boys, and As a Human, I Can't Shake The Image of This Boy Being Held Hostage in Gaza
2023-11-27 Evangelicals Against Christian Nationalism
2023-11-27 Enabling Baptist Dissent in Politics
2023-11-27 Is America a Christian Nation?
2023-11-27 Monday Miscellany, 11/27/23
2023-11-27 Encouraging war is neither Christian nor loving: Why the Church must advocate for peace and justice in Israel-Gaza
2023-11-27 What About the Palestinians? Southern Baptists vs. Southern Baptist Missionaries, part 2
2023-11-26 Advent Wreaths, Thematic Practice and Colorful Outfits
2023-11-26 Hindu Festivals: Govardhan Puja, Annakut, and Chhappan Bhog
2023-11-26 Generic-ifying the Holocaust
2023-11-25 Are There Any Atheists On Death Row?
2023-11-25 A Zen Meditation on our American Thanksgiving
2023-11-24 The Danger of Denying that Christian Nationalism Exists
2023-11-24 Social Experiments That Didn't Work
2023-11-24 DISCUSSION: Is a Sense of Change in the Air?
2023-11-24 Happy Thanksgiving
2023-11-23 Sheep and Goats, Part 3
2023-11-23 Thanksgiving Survival Guide: Don't Trade Your Soul 4 Turkey
2023-11-23 Thanksgiving and Vocation
2023-11-23 Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple in New Jersey
2023-11-23 On Being a Gemini in the Trump Era
2023-11-22 Grateful for Our Evolving Consciousness
2023-11-22 The BrideGroom, Kiddushin and The People of God
2023-11-22 Sheep and Goats, Part 2
2023-11-22 World Children's Day: A Day to Celebrate Children
2023-11-22 Hobbes on the Three Types of Government (& Which is Best)
2023-11-21 Progressive Faith-Based Groups Are Reclaiming the Faith from the Political Right Through Justice and Love
2023-11-21 Sheep and Goats, Part 1
2023-11-21 Conservative Crusade Against Their Own Reflection
2023-11-21 The Decline of Christianity Causes the Decline of Liberalism?
2023-11-20 PODCAST: Pope Francis Promotes Heresy in New Apostolic Letter
2023-11-20 Podcast: Sitting in the Shade of Another Tree
2023-11-20 “Gaspo, Gulpo, Gaggo” Now Defines Donald Trump
2023-11-20 Aziraphale’s Choice: The Tragic Theology & Ecclesiology of Good Omens
2023-11-20 Monday Miscellany, 11/20/23
2023-11-20 Is Opposing Israeli’s War in Gaza Antisemitic?
2023-11-20 The Subversive, Confrontational, Emboldening Stories of Christmas {Part One}
2023-11-20 From the land of Jefferson Davis
2023-11-19 The Wall of Separation Has Two Sides
2023-11-19 Imagine Sending Huey Long to Congress
2023-11-19 Anti-White Christian Nationalism
2023-11-18 The God-shaped Hole, Yada And God’s People
2023-11-17 Cold Harbor and a Warm Farewell
2023-11-17 From Islam, to New Atheism, to Christianity
2023-11-17 DISCUSSION: Should We Reinstate the Draft?
2023-11-17 Latest from Gaza: in a crowded prison, alone in the world
2023-11-16 Welcoming a former infidel
2023-11-16 And you may ask yourself, 'Well, how did I get here?'
2023-11-16 Hate Crimes: A Pagan's Prayerful Response to Conflict and Prejudice
2023-11-16 Reaping What Is Sown, Part 3
2023-11-16 Loving Your Neighbor, Compassion and Community
2023-11-16 The Religious Right Finally Calls Christ's Teachings, "Woke," "Liberal," and "Weak."
2023-11-16 A Defense of Denominations
2023-11-16 Apophenia against the Theology
2023-11-16 Denial Of Social Justice Is A Denial Of The Value And Dignity Life
2023-11-16 How Some Christians Abuse the Bible
2023-11-15 Indi Gregory: Why Are the Courts Deciding People's Fate?
2023-11-15 Connection, Dabar and God’s People
2023-11-15 Immigrants in the Bible
2023-11-15 Reaping What Is Sown, Part 2
2023-11-15 Christian Nationalism versus the Vermin Curse
2023-11-15 The First Combat in Outer Space
2023-11-14 What are Hamas' Goals? Hamas in Their Own Words
2023-11-14 The Money Sermon
2023-11-14 Reaping What Is Sown, Part 1
2023-11-14 Another Red State Chooses Abortion
2023-11-14 Who Do We Hate the Most?
2023-11-14 Who Do We Hate the Most?
2023-11-14 Status Is a Fundamental Desire with Practical Benefits
2023-11-14 Autocrats are Bad, Actually
2023-11-13 From Marine to Pacifist: a conversation with Dillon Naber Cruz
2023-11-13 Why Doesn't The White Church Pray With Their Legs?
2023-11-13 Shooting into the Crowd
2023-11-13 Giving Thanks for God’s Creation: Deuteronomy 8, Luke 17
2023-11-13 The Removal of Bishop Strickland, What Do We Publicly See, Not Speculate?
2023-11-13 Monday Miscellany, 11/13/23
2023-11-13 The Myth of the 'Promised Land': Rethinking Sacred Spaces
2023-11-13 How are Gazans Counterparts to Native Americans?
2023-11-13 Speaking about Palestine: Enough is Enough
2023-11-13 Jesus demands that we call for an end to this war: How can anyone rejoice at death?
2023-11-12 Some thoughts on reading about Brigham Young
2023-11-12 On the Resurrection of Casey McWhorter
2023-11-12 4 things you can do right now to help bring peace to Palestine and Israel
2023-11-11 On the Removal of Bishop Strickland
2023-11-11 To Lay Down One's Life: Gratitude for an American POW Veteran
2023-11-10 Revangelical: Proclaiming the Good News after Deconstruction
2023-11-10 Peace in the Common Ground (Overcoming the World: Part 3)
2023-11-10 Breaking Through the "Front Lines of Human Thought"
2023-11-10 DISCUSSION: What Books Have Changed Your Way of Thinking?
2023-11-10 We Are the History We Choose to Believe
2023-11-10 World Adoption Day: Spreading God's Love
2023-11-09 Dissenting from Attacks on "Direct Democracy"
2023-11-09 Death and Persecution from Syria to Nicaragua
2023-11-09 The Recklessness and Inhumanity of Israel’s Destruction of Gaza
2023-11-09 "The Man in the Arena," or "Citizenship in a Republic"
2023-11-09 Apocalyptic Passivity, Part 3
2023-11-09 At Age 52, I Finally Formed a Conscience
2023-11-09 The End of Being Informed
2023-11-09 Evangelism: The MLM Scheme for Souls
2023-11-08 The Unheard Story of “Jatayu” During Diwali Celebration in Minnesota
2023-11-08 We Need Nuance in an Either/Or Culture!
2023-11-08 How Abortion Became the Poster-Child for the Religious Right
2023-11-08 Apocalyptic Passivity, Part 2
2023-11-08 A powerful response to Netanyahu's shameless abuse of the Bible
2023-11-08 "Lived Religion" vs. Formal Religion
2023-11-08 The Work of the Spirit
2023-11-08 Has Pope Francis Opened "A Crack in the Door" for Gays?
2023-11-07 Cutting Food Benefits for the Poor Is not a Christian Move
2023-11-07 Thoughts on Ohio's Election Day
2023-11-07 “End” : Systematic Theology from Death Row : (Casey McWhorter & Jeff Hood)
2023-11-07 What of the Palestinians?
2023-11-07 Republicans Have a Magical Mirror on the Wall
2023-11-07 Apocalyptic Passivity, Part 1
2023-11-07 Jewish Americans are Stunned by Sudden Rise of Anti-Semitism
2023-11-07 Beware of Definitive Answers from ChatGPT
2023-11-07 Las Posadas: On Mary and Joseph and the Border
2023-11-07 Cancer Awareness Day: A Survivor's Story
2023-11-06 Catholic Social Teaching Guides My Vote
2023-11-06 "Strength" : Systematic Theology from Death Row : (Casey McWhorter & Jeff Hood)
2023-11-06 What We All Need to Know About Conversion Therapy Bans
2023-11-06 Michael Bane: Death Row Feminist
2023-11-06 Postsecular East Texas: Two Years Behind the Pine Curtain
2023-11-06 Monday Miscellany, 11/6/23
2023-11-06 Why Christians Should Swear More: Because Jesus Probably Did
2023-11-06 Everyone loves false prophets: Preachers and Israel-Gaza
2023-11-06 Election Day 2023: The Catholic Vote
2023-11-06 5 Examples of Why House Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t a Christian
2023-11-05 Bigotry and Hatred; Right-Winged Media Stirs the Pot Again
2023-11-05 This thought experiment will make you smarter about Gaza and Israel
2023-11-05 Separation of Church and State?
2023-11-05 Would Republicans Welcome Jesus Christ And Mike Pence?
2023-11-05 Should Politicians Be Guided by Their Faith?
2023-11-05 Did Christ Already Return? Interpreting Matthew 10:23's “Until the Son of Man Comes”
2023-11-04 Why Socialism Isn't In Sync with God
2023-11-04 “Ready” : Systematic Theology from Death Row : Casey McWhorter & Jeff Hood
2023-11-04 How the Synod on Synodality Report Models Real Inclusivity
2023-11-04 “Simple” : Systematic Theology from Death Row : Casey McWhorter & Jeff Hood)
2023-11-03 We Are All Jews Now
2023-11-03 The Devil, the Beast, & the False Prophet
2023-11-03 DISCUSSION: Peace in the Middle East
2023-11-03 "Home" - Systematic Theology from Death Row - Casey McWhorter & Jeff Hood
2023-11-02 Are Americans Rejecting Separation of Church & State?
2023-11-02 We Are People of Mercy. We Don't Have Enemies.
2023-11-02 Getting real about Palestine with Spiritual Brewpub
2023-11-02 Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 3
2023-11-02 Time: Do We Ever Have Enough?
2023-11-02 Robespierre's Celebration of Terror
2023-11-02 WTF is a Biblical Worldview?
2023-11-02 Mike Johnson: Another David Barton Mouthpiece
2023-11-02 A Plea for a Ceasefire
2023-11-01 A Divine Image Problem
2023-11-01 “The Blank Slate” : Systematic Theology from Death Row : (Casey McWhorter & Jeff Hood)
2023-11-01 “Blank Slate” : Systematic Theology from Death Row : (Casey McWhorter & Jeff Hood)
2023-11-01 Moving from Traditionalist Catholic Circles to Progressive Catholic Circles Saved Lives
2023-11-01 The Fallacy Of A Biblical Worldview
2023-11-01 Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 2
2023-11-01 Just War Principles And The Conflict Between Israel And Hamas
2023-11-01 Holidays That Aren't Holy Days
2023-11-01 Why Do Our Kids Love Hamas?: Stupidity, Boredom and The Embrace of Evil
2023-10-31 The Answer To Everything?
2023-10-31 Who Is Our Neighbor?
2023-10-31 Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 1
2023-10-31 95 Theses for Today
2023-10-31 Why Christians Should Question Their Support for Israel
2023-10-31 How to solve the migrant crisis in 2 easy steps
2023-10-30 A Palestinian Pastor's powerful message to us: "it's time to stop praying"
2023-10-30 Monday Miscellany, 10/30/23
2023-10-30 Did Jesus intend to Make Jerusalem Great Again (MJMA)? 2 thoughts on what this means for how we view the war in Gaza.
2023-10-29 Is It Mental Health, or Guns?
2023-10-28 Christians: Why do we skimp on compassion when it comes to Palestinians?
2023-10-28 A Christian Nationalist-Zionist in Sheeps Clothing
2023-10-28 DISCUSSION: Peace in the Middle East
2023-10-28 Friday Prayer in Little Rock: A Short Homily on Genocide in Gaza
2023-10-27 How Does Socialism Fit in God's World?
2023-10-27 Constrained vs. Unconstrained Visions
2023-10-27 DISCUSSION: Our Dangerous Times
2023-10-27 Call me a Product of the Nineteenth Century, But I Don’t Understand the Problem with Structural Sin
2023-10-26 War is a Waste for All
2023-10-26 A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 3
2023-10-26 Conservative Catholics Breaking the "Papal Addiction"
2023-10-26 Systematic Structures of Sin, Hypocrisy, And Climate Change
2023-10-26 It’s Time for Evangelicals to Abandon Religious Intolerance
2023-10-26 A Year in Political Advertising Hell
2023-10-25 Joe Biden or Donald Trump--Which Vote is More Wholistically Faith-Based?
2023-10-25 How "I'm not perfect" became the perfect political defense
2023-10-25 A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 2
2023-10-25 On Trying to Make the Sexes Indistinguishable
2023-10-24 “There Will Be No Life in Killing Me” : The Casey McWhorter Tapes (6): Scheduled for Execution on November 16, 2023 in Alabama
2023-10-24 “I Might Have a Son Out There that I Love Very Much” : The Casey McWhorter Tapes (5): Scheduled for Execution on November 16, 2023 in Alabama
2023-10-24 “I’d Found Humanity Again” : The Casey McWhorter Tapes (4): Scheduled for Execution on November 16, 2023 in Alabama
2023-10-24 When Patriotism Becomes False Religion
2023-10-24 Advice to the Church: Gaza is the hill you should be ready die on
2023-10-24 A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 1
2023-10-24 Why Quiet Listening is Important Action
2023-10-24 Americans of Both Parties Giving Up on Democracy
2023-10-24 American Secularization Hasn’t Followed the Script That Secularization Theory Would Predict
2023-10-24 Racism: How Do We Live God's Call of Equality?
2023-10-23 The Disconnect Between the Evangelical Church and Jesus
2023-10-23 “Peace is going to see me through this execution” : The Casey McWhorter Tapes (3): Scheduled for Execution on November 16, 2023 in Alabama
2023-10-23 Defending God with Lies
2023-10-23 An Empathetic, Peace Seeking Response to the Israel-Hamas War
2023-10-23 Monday Miscellany, 10/23/23
2023-10-23 Has the American Church given in to the Beast by silencing the wrong voices? Beast #4
2023-10-23 “Stop being nice. Jesus raised hell!”: OK Death Row Inmate Emmanuel Littlejohn on John 2:13-17
2023-10-23 Praying and Working for Peace takes Courage
2023-10-22 How to make sense of the Palestinian call for freedom and justice
2023-10-22 Survival of My Faith Through the Rise of Fascism; New Friends, the Hallow App, My Husband, and Safe Space
2023-10-21 Wadea Al-Fayoume, Samantha Woll, and a tangle of unknowns
2023-10-21 Stop the Genocide in Gaza (October 2023)!
2023-10-21 “Hope Comes Back Around.”: The Casey McWhorter Tapes (2): Scheduled for Execution on November 16, 2023 in Alabama
2023-10-21 Is Israel Right To Fight?
2023-10-20 "Theological Musings" — Not Your Sunday School's Theology
2023-10-20 Podcast: Theological Musings from a Tattooed Theologian
2023-10-20 The Pro-Life George Orwell
2023-10-20 DISCUSS: The War in the Middle East
2023-10-20 “‘Daddy Didn’t Love Me’ Kind of Kid”: The Casey McWhorter Tapes (1): Scheduled for Execution on November 16, 2023 in Alabama
2023-10-19 Render to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar’s Part 3
2023-10-19 Too Fab For Florida?
2023-10-19 Touchy Subjects and Divisive Opinions
2023-10-19 Update from loved ones - what it's like in Gaza right now
2023-10-19 Florida and Texas LGBTQ+ Advocates--Promoting Solidarity and Life
2023-10-19 Luxury Beliefs
2023-10-19 Killers in Our Midst: My Grandfather, Casey McWhorter, the State of Alabama and the Consistent Immorality of Killing
2023-10-18 STOP BLAMING ISRAEL, STOP YOUR HATE, LIES AND MISINFORMATION
2023-10-18 Opening the "Gaetz" of Hell
2023-10-18 Ten Things to Know About the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
2023-10-18 Israeli Palestinian Conflict Serves No One
2023-10-18 Render to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar’s Part 2
2023-10-18 Israel Has A Right To Defend Itself
2023-10-18 Christianity Is Always a Minority Religion
2023-10-18 Shall Not Be Infringed
2023-10-18 It’s ISRAEL that is actually ANTI-CHRIST: A Plea for Righteous Christian Theology
2023-10-18 Israel, Hamas, Suicide Bombings, European Union, United Nations, Antisemitism
2023-10-18 Political Banter | Jim Jordan No-Vote
2023-10-17 Forget the End Times
2023-10-17 500 Palestinians killed in one Israeli airstrike - this is genocide UPDATED
2023-10-17 Joseph Czuba and the Violence of American Christianity
2023-10-17 When Multiple Lived Experiences Match the News and Research, It's True
2023-10-17 Today is a Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Holy Land
2023-10-17 Render to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar’s Part 1
2023-10-17 The War in Israel: Does This Challenge Your Pro-Life Perspective?
2023-10-17 What Revolution Looks Like
2023-10-16 Society of Biblical Literature Statement about Hamas Attacks
2023-10-16 When in Doubt, Pray for Both Sides
2023-10-16 Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem Offers to Exchange Himself for Hostages
2023-10-16 My Primary Purpose in the Catholic Church
2023-10-16 Monday Miscellany, 10/16/23
2023-10-15 A Wise Woman Speaks to the House of Representatives
2023-10-15 How to Honor Veterans and Military Personnel at Church – Appropriately, Compassionately
2023-10-15 Don't compromise truth on Israel and Palestine
2023-10-14 Whatever is Honorable
2023-10-14 Update on the crisis in Gaza: and my 2 concerns over what I am hearing from many American pastors and leaders
2023-10-14 The Year of the Locust: A Sermon on War
2023-10-13 We Are Human Beings, And We Can Do Better
2023-10-13 How is Your "Yes" to God Going?
2023-10-13 From the Battle for the Bible to the Battle for the Body
2023-10-13 DISCUSS: New Abortion Slogans
2023-10-13 The Imperfect Bonhoeffer: A Model For Prophecy In The Public Square
2023-10-12 And Still The Children Die
2023-10-12 Newly-minted mosques, alas
2023-10-12 Did Prime Minister Benjamin 'Bibi' Netanyahu Purposely Sacrifice Thousands Just to Remain in Power?
2023-10-12 Once Again, America is the Arsenal of Democracy.
2023-10-12 A Wedding Banquet: All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 3
2023-10-12 Does Everything Have Consciousness?
2023-10-12 Jesus is Not a Zionist: Reflections on Evil
2023-10-11 Holocaust and Genocide: Never Again Is Now
2023-10-11 The Republican Party has hobbled and crippled the United States of America in a time of war.
2023-10-11 Don't Trust in Powerful People
2023-10-11 God help us to conquer the menace of evil.
2023-10-11 A Wedding Banquet: All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 2
2023-10-11 The Rebirth of Christian Schools
2023-10-11 The "War" in Israel-Gaza: My response to Russell Moore's editorial
2023-10-10 Dolmabahçe Sarayı, Edirnekapı, Galata, and Cağaloğlu Hammamı
2023-10-10 This is How I'm Talking to My Kids About Israel Right Now
2023-10-10 Why and how your prayer might foster peace
2023-10-10 All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 1
2023-10-10 How Does Spiritual Practice Help with Mental Health?
2023-10-10 The Trial of the Century
2023-10-10 In Gaza, she inhabits a solitary space between life & death
2023-10-10 Speaking Good Words for Taxes
2023-10-09 In the Strange Land of Strange Prayers
2023-10-09 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
2023-10-09 Strongmen and War: Israel, America and the Price of Political Chaos
2023-10-09 Admitting I Was Wrong Saved Lives; A Call to Conservative Ministers and Laity
2023-10-09 Monday Miscellany, 10/9/23
2023-10-09 The White Savior Complex: When Evangelism Becomes Vanity
2023-10-09 American Evangelicals’ Categorical Problem
2023-10-09 What People Of Faith Need To Know About Gaza And Israel Right Now
2023-10-08 How to Spot a Conspiracy Theory
2023-10-08 My thoughts on Biden’s speech regarding the tragic events in Israel and Gaza
2023-10-08 Jordan vs. Trump | In Dialogue With Carmen Ingle
2023-10-08 Israel Under Attack, 2500 plus Rocket Launched, Palestinian Militia Kidnap Israeli Civilians, At least 20 Israeli Civilians Dead
2023-10-07 Good Omens: An Antidote to Toxic Christian Apocalyptic Fiction
2023-10-06 "Resident Aliens"
2023-10-06 Staying Positive While Fascism Increases
2023-10-06 The Dad of an LGBTQ+ Child: My Journey Away from the Unloving, UnBiblical Church
2023-10-06 When America Was Even Less Religious
2023-10-06 DISCUSS: Objections to Catechizing Children about Adultery
2023-10-05 Part II: “It’s Jesus, Christian!”– Liberal Struggles
2023-10-05 Republicans Took Out Their Own Speaker. Anything Else is a Lie.
2023-10-05 Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 3
2023-10-05 Trump: Emperor Of Conservative Donor World
2023-10-05 What Persecution Would Look Like
2023-10-05 The Allure of the Bad Boy: Why Conservative Christians Are Horny for Fascism
2023-10-05 The time I spoke with former President Jimmy Carter
2023-10-05 Part I: “It’s Jesus, Christian!” – The Conservative Struggle
2023-10-04 Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana Vies for Quipster of the Year
2023-10-04 Government by Insanity and Hate: Repubs Dump Their Speaker.
2023-10-04 3 simple questions guaranteed to make your pro-birth friends really think
2023-10-04 Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 2
2023-10-04 Protestants Wouldn't Fare Well under Integralism
2023-10-03 Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 1
2023-10-03 If Adolf Hitler Were on the Ballot, Some Would Fully Support Him
2023-10-03 GARY WAYNE SUTTON: The INNOCENCE Report
2023-10-03 Taking Trump's Business
2023-10-03 Donald Trump Is On Trial, And So Is America
2023-10-03 Conservative Christianity's Crush on Nationalism: A Love Affair More Scandalous Than Your Pastor's Hidden Browser History
2023-10-03 A Word on Trump's Financial Predicament
2023-10-02 Spiritual Practices and Mental Health: A Matched Pair
2023-10-02 COPY_Spiritual Practices and Mental Health: A Matched Pair
2023-10-02 The People Have Spoken!
2023-10-02 The Not So Good News of the Gospel
2023-10-02 Monday Miscellany, 10/2/23
2023-10-02 Why I believe the US is the Beast: Beast #3
2023-10-01 Come On Down to Whataboutisms Plus!!! Your One-Stop Shop for All Things "Whataboutism"
2023-10-01 You'll just love Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest antics
2023-10-01 God Has Been Indicted
2023-10-01 Can Religion Make Us Better Stewards for the Planet?
2023-10-01 A Conversation with Dr. Andrew Whitehead
2023-09-30 I want to attend racially-mixed Churches, not All-White Republican Churches
2023-09-29 Podcast: Wrestling with Faith and Leaning Forward with Karl and Laura Forehand
2023-09-29 I wanna know what love is – I want you to show me
2023-09-29 Louisiana Senator Kennedy Vies for Quipster of the Year
2023-09-29 Against the "Religion of Humanity"
2023-09-29 DISCUSSION: My Picture
2023-09-29 Who are Woke Christians and Have We Seen them Before?
2023-09-28 I'm Too Quick To Judge--how About You?
2023-09-28 Appeal to Conscience or Exemption from Sin? The Slow Death of Catholic Conscience
2023-09-28 What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 3
2023-09-28 The Problem with Religion – and Why we Can’t See it
2023-09-28 Why Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Seminars Don't Work
2023-09-27 Bharat (India)’s Values, Culture, and Heritage During the G20
2023-09-27 Christian Nationalism is Fascism, Not Faith nor Freedom
2023-09-27 Ten Things Christians Should Get Over, Now
2023-09-27 What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 2
2023-09-27 Stopping the Execution of a Redneck. : Gary Wayne Sutton
2023-09-27 On Republican Weaseling on Abortion
2023-09-27 Surviving the Cult of Personality: How to Dodge the Ego Grenades of Your Narcissistic Pastor
2023-09-26 A Candle Prayer of Protection--Part of the Church is Obsessed with Sex
2023-09-26 What Do Other Religions Get Right?
2023-09-26 What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 1
2023-09-26 Political Rhetoric Deserves an “F”
2023-09-26 Trump Turns Against Pro-Lifers
2023-09-26 Social Status is a Scarce Resource
2023-09-26 The Broad Concept of Restorative Justice in Laudato Si’
2023-09-26 The Good News Is Not "Good Business"
2023-09-26 Crisis at the Border - How Should Catholics View It?
2023-09-25 “God is a God of Action”: A Conversation with Felipe Hinojosa on Latino Religious Politics, Scholarship, and the Public Good
2023-09-25 Rev. Nelson Rabell’s Church Restored to ELCA. What’s Still Needed for Justice?
2023-09-25 Evangelicalism Will Eventually Die and This is Why
2023-09-25 Monday Miscellany, 9/25/23
2023-09-25 An evening hour of patriotic appreciation and inspiration
2023-09-24 A Counterfeit Church: When the Church Becomes a Compassionate NGO
2023-09-24 Should A Rapist Get the Death Penalty According to the Bible?
2023-09-24 The Cost of Life by Not Reconciling with LGBTQ+ People
2023-09-24 Synod POV: straight talk on doctrine "development"
2023-09-22 “The Worst Attorneys in Oklahoma”: Anthony Sanchez on Mark Barrett and Randy Coyne
2023-09-22 Why Christians Need to Say ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ & Mean It
2023-09-22 A Trumpian Form of Terrorism
2023-09-22 The Problems Reagan Dealt With Are Back
2023-09-22 DISCUSSION: Misconceptions about Dechurching
2023-09-22 What Divides The Left and Right?: America's Battle over "The Way"
2023-09-22 The World Must Help Migrants Today, Not Tomorrow
2023-09-21 "Religion builds hospitals. Science builds hydrogen bombs."
2023-09-21 Equality, Generosity and Concern for Workers’ Needs, Part 3
2023-09-21 The Fall of the Roman REPUBLIC
2023-09-21 The Second Coming of Abusive Pastors: The Unholy Cycle of Cardboard-Thin Contrition
2023-09-20 “The Fight for Anthony Sanchez”: Last Minute Reflections on the Death of God and an Innocent Man
2023-09-20 The Upcoming Global Synod Is a Train Wreck for Catholics
2023-09-20 Remembering "Moroni Day" and Appreciating the Book of Abraham
2023-09-20 Why I think the American Church is in Bed with the Beast: Beast #2
2023-09-20 Equality, Generosity and Concern for Workers’ Needs, Part 2
2023-09-20 Misgendering God
2023-09-19 Roosevelt's Caution to Be Afraid of Fear is Still Relevant
2023-09-19 Final Thoughts: Anthony Sanchez on Why He Rejected Clemency
2023-09-19 Faith, UFOs, the Supernatural, and Transistor Radios
2023-09-19 LGBTQ+ Rights: Intersections Matter
2023-09-19 Marketing the "Anti-Gay" Church
2023-09-19 Equality, Generosity and Concern for Workers’ Needs, Part 1
2023-09-19 Can Theology Liberate Us?: Gustavo Gutierrez and Progressive Christianity (Part 4)
2023-09-19 Is the Tide Turning on Religious Belief?
2023-09-19 Using a Different Metric of Fairness: The Parable of the Vineyard Workers
2023-09-19 When "Liberal Talking Points" Are the Gospel
2023-09-18 Monday Miscellany, 9/18/23
2023-09-18 The Illusion of Authority: Why NASA's UAP Report is a Cosmic Lesson in Blind Faith
2023-09-18 4 reasons why I believe that the Western church has largely fallen prey to the Beast: Beast #1
2023-09-18 "There Were Giants in the Land"
2023-09-17 March Letter written to my local clergy (minus names)--Many Texas Catholic Churches (slightly edited)
2023-09-17 Communing with God: a new perspective to consider
2023-09-17 A Word of Advice for a Unitarian Universalist Congregation
2023-09-17 Angry Doves: The Fight for Anthony Sanchez (On The Coming Days)
2023-09-15 Blame Or Bless Baptists For The Wall
2023-09-15 The History Wars - Why So Much Is At Stake
2023-09-15 Most Protestants Believe in the Prosperity Gospel
2023-09-15 DISCUSSION: Do Pro-Lifers Need to Change Their Language?
2023-09-14 Actual Photographs of Early Latter-day Saint History, and Other Treats
2023-09-14 Debt Forgiveness, Part 3 of Seventy Times Seven
2023-09-14 The Christian View of Marriage
2023-09-14 The Illusion of Holiness: When Pastors Become CEOs and Sanctuaries Turn into Boardrooms
2023-09-14 How to Demoralize the Church
2023-09-13 Times of Transition
2023-09-13 You need to know: is stepping in cat puke is part of God's plan for your life?
2023-09-13 Christians Must Stand With Christ, Not Greg Abbott
2023-09-13 Debt Forgiveness, Part 2 of Seventy Times Seven
2023-09-13 The New Difference Between Liberal and Conservative Theology
2023-09-13 Ohio's Abortion Amendment: Why is the Pro-life Movement Lying?
2023-09-13 "Science flies men to the moon. Religion flies planes into buildings."
2023-09-12 Debt Forgiveness, Part 1 of Seventy Times Seven
2023-09-12 Luther on Works for God vs. Works for Our Neighbor
2023-09-12 Comic-Con vs. Church: Where the Capes Actually Stand for Something
2023-09-12 Dignity, Honor, and Face Cultures –– What's the Difference?
2023-09-12 A late thought on a memorable day
2023-09-12 A Map for Leaving MAGA Land
2023-09-12 How 9/11 Fueled 1/06
2023-09-11 Was 9/11 Ever A Thing?
2023-09-11 The Cure for Dying While Alive: On the Upcoming Execution of Anthony Sanchez
2023-09-11 Anthony Sanchez Lawyer Eric Allen Asks Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt for 60 Day Reprieve
2023-09-11 Anthony Sanchez Letter to Governor Kevin Stitt
2023-09-11 Monday Miscellany 9/11/23
2023-09-11 Snarky Faith Podcast: A Candid Conversation with Nat Turney, Author of "Seeds of De(con)struction"
2023-09-11 January 6—The New September 11
2023-09-11 Jesus and the banks: 2 reasons why Jesus would not be pleased with Credit Card rebates
2023-09-11 Dietrich Bonhoeffer explains how to fix stupid
2023-09-11 A Look Back at the Aftermath of 9/11 - 22 years later!
2023-09-10 What does it mean to keep God in public schools?
2023-09-10 Pacifism and Church History: A Lesson Unlearned Post-9/11
2023-09-09 Synod POV: You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test
2023-09-08 Karl Marx: Communism as Alternative to Christianity?
2023-09-08 Conservative Priests Are Finally Here. Laudem Dei!
2023-09-08 "Seeds of De(con)struction" by Nat Turney: A Faith Journey Worth Taking
2023-09-08 The Integralists' Strategy
2023-09-08 DISCUSSION: War in Mexico?
2023-09-08 The Art of Twisting Scripture: How Evangelicals Like Mike Pence Get It Wrong
2023-09-07 Forgiveness in Hinduism and the Hindu Temple of Minnesota
2023-09-07 BARBIE: What's The Fuss About?
2023-09-07 Doubting The Gospel of Thomas?
2023-09-07 In recordbreaking heat, Israel intentionally impedes Palestinian families' access to water
2023-09-07 Is the Government Hostile to Christianity?
2023-09-07 Relating to Those with Whom We Disagree Part 3
2023-09-07 Secularization Is Due to CHILDREN's Lack of Faith
2023-09-07 Following Medical Science Is The Proper Christian Thing To Do
2023-09-06 Donald Trump: The Last White President
2023-09-06 Marketing the "Anti-Gay" Church
2023-09-06 Sigh. Cody, Wyoming. Again.
2023-09-06 Relating to Those with Whom We Disagree Part 2
2023-09-06 Attempts to Make Catholic Theology More Inclusive Actually Do the Opposite
2023-09-06 Are Changes in the Church Contributing to De-Churching?
2023-09-05 Relating to Those with Whom We Disagree Part 1
2023-09-05 Non-Worshipping Evangelicals
2023-09-05 The Founding Fathers of Progressive Christianity: Pt. 3 - Von Harnack
2023-09-05 The Anthony Sanchez Gospel: INNOCENCE, HOPE, JUSTICE & LOVE
2023-09-04 Task-Pastors and Mid-Wits
2023-09-04 End the NDA in the Church: ‘Confidentiality’ is a Cover for Toxic Secrets
2023-09-04 A Labor Day Meditation on Vocation
2023-09-04 Monday Miscellany, 9/4/23
2023-09-04 The Purpose of the Law: Why Jesus and Robin Hood did not break the law. And why our Sunday school lessons may have got it all wrong. 10 Commandments #5
2023-09-03 White folks, say it out loud: "We perpetrate hate crimes"
2023-09-02 A veritable implicit philosophy of history
2023-09-02 Becoming a Progressive Catholic in 7 Years Thanks to Catholic Social Teaching
2023-09-02 Becoming a Progressive Catholic in 7 Years Thanks to Catholic Social Teaching
2023-09-01 Now This Is a Small Town
2023-09-01 Campaigning on a Mugshot: From the County Jail to the White House
2023-09-01 Boredom: How Trumpism Ends
2023-09-01 Churches Used to Hold Society Together
2023-09-01 DISCUSSION: The Republican Presidential Candidates
2023-09-01 Labor Day: The Lost Christian Holiday
2023-08-31 My Unwitting Nazi Bible College Education
2023-08-31 What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean, Part 3
2023-08-31 Speaking Out, What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean Part 2
2023-08-31 "Matrimonial" Marriage
2023-08-31 We Will Win the Culture War
2023-08-31 In Politics And Religion, Sophistry Is Being Used To Defend Ideology
2023-08-30 Jesus Is Woke
2023-08-30 Victories in the Language Wars
2023-08-29 What's Going on with the French Ban on Abayas in Public Schools?
2023-08-29 Jesus or Guns: The American Dilemma
2023-08-29 Why Do Some Americans Believe that Climate Change is Not Urgent?
2023-08-29 My last post on the temple in Cody? Maybe, for a while at least.
2023-08-29 Participation, What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean Part 1
2023-08-29 Oliver Anthony's Critics from the Left, the Right, and the Religious
2023-08-29 The Uncharted Intersection of Viktor Frankl and Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Guide to Meaningful Community Living
2023-08-28 Monday Miscellany, 8/28/23
2023-08-28 Where is it Truly Safe for Me to Wear My Favorite Shirt?
2023-08-28 We Need To Stop Giving Crackpots a Platform
2023-08-27 Is Jesus Yoke Woke?
2023-08-27 "From Dream to Action: "60 Years After the I Have A Dream Speech"
2023-08-27 "From Dream to Action: Reigniting the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
2023-08-27 My Last Comment on the Temple in Cody? (Probably Not)
2023-08-27 Blame vs. Responsibility
2023-08-27 My Thoughts on the First Republican Debate
2023-08-27 News from the world of English Language Learning
2023-08-27 Sharing Truth in Love Means...
2023-08-27 What happens to the rest of us, when kids fail to learn?
2023-08-26 What Have I Been Reading? My End of Summer Report
2023-08-26 How Money Poisons Faith
2023-08-26 “A Mystery to the World”
2023-08-25 The Only Good Canaanite Is a....
2023-08-25 Country Music’s Populism Showing Out in “Try that in a Small Town”
2023-08-25 Trying to Overturn an Election is an Extraordinary Crime
2023-08-25 Is Trump's Nomination for President Inevitable? Thinking through the Numbers.
2023-08-25 Jesus' Mugshot Available
2023-08-25 Luther on Heresy
2023-08-25 DISCUSSION: Thought Crimes
2023-08-25 Leaning Forward by Karl and Laura Forehand: A Snarky Exploration of Faith, Healing, and Authenticity
2023-08-25 The Founding Fathers of Progressive Christianity: Part 2 - Rauschenbusch
2023-08-24 "Christian Persecution" or "Being Called on the Carpet"
2023-08-24 Is Love REALLY All We Need?
2023-08-24 Donald Trump And Exposing The Religious Right
2023-08-24 Messiahs, Part 3 of Injustice, Oppression, and Violence Being Put Right
2023-08-24 What Derrida's "Pure Hospitality" Does to the Church
2023-08-24 The Rapture: A Theological Misstep or Religious Sci-Fi Fantasy?
2023-08-24 Violence, Christianity, and the Bible
2023-08-23 Justice, Part 2 of Injustice, Oppression, and Violence Being Put Right
2023-08-23 Two Kinds of Inclusion
2023-08-23 The Way Of Life Promotes Just Environmental Regulations
2023-08-23 The Evangelical Imagination: An Interview with Karen Swallow Prior
2023-08-23 Christian Nation series: "Thou shalt not covet" = the death of capitalism
2023-08-23 We Need a National Ban on Abortion
2023-08-22 LGBTQ and the Gospel
2023-08-22 Here on Earth, Injustice, Oppression, and Violence Being Put Right Part 1
2023-08-22 Waking Up to Wokeness: Have Conservative Christians Gone Woke on Being Woke?
2023-08-22 Willful Ignorance and Intentional Harm, Similar or Totally One?
2023-08-22 The Beauty of God
2023-08-22 Joseph: The Historicity
2023-08-21 Trump as Messiah? Starting To Make Sense To Me
2023-08-21 Where I Stand, Politically
2023-08-21 Monday Miscellany 8/21/23
2023-08-21 Into the Storm
2023-08-20 Hidden in Plain Sight
2023-08-20 Oklahoma Approves a Religious Charter School
2023-08-19 Detaching from Religious Belief
2023-08-19 I've Returned--WWII Vets and Their Take on Trumpism
2023-08-19 Recovering from American Idolatry
2023-08-18 Two Reasons Why Some People Fear Interfaith Relations
2023-08-18 Is Bonhoeffer Too Flawed To Bring Us Together?
2023-08-18 Why Once-Committed Adults Stop Going to Church
2023-08-18 DISCUSSION: Church Burnout
2023-08-18 Heaven and Hell: Are They Just Carrots on a Stick?
2023-08-18 Humanity Amid Horror
2023-08-17 A Canaanite Woman, It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong Part 3
2023-08-17 The Vocations of Dorothy L. Sayers
2023-08-16 Christian Nation series: “Bearing False Witness” and systemic racism
2023-08-16 Grow and Learn, It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong Part 2
2023-08-16 A Lutheran Case for Limited Government and Religious Liberty
2023-08-16 Better Not Call Saul or Trump: A Cautionary Tale of Kings and Presidents
2023-08-16 A Fourth Indictment for a Would-Be Tyrant
2023-08-15 Miracle of Democracy: Black Woman DA Leads Trump Indictment
2023-08-15 An Update on the Continuing Crisis in Cody, Wyoming
2023-08-15 It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong, Part 1
2023-08-15 The Zombification of America
2023-08-15 Virtuous Women, Bobs, and Dicks: The Naming Inequality in American Christianity
2023-08-14 The Bible is Radical
2023-08-14 Why Care about Israel's Restricting Supreme Court
2023-08-14 How Not to Be Secular
2023-08-14 Monday Miscellany, 8/14/23
2023-08-14 Good Guys Vs. Bad Buys: Christians and Self-Defense
2023-08-14 When is breaking the commandments okay? 2 things to consider 10 Commandments #3
2023-08-13 Christian Nation series: "Bearing False Witness" and the historic lies we cherish
2023-08-13 Transgressivism’s Poker Tell: Christofascism
2023-08-12 Once More, on the Conflict in Cody
2023-08-12 An Open Letter From A Public School Teacher - on indoctrination & inclusion
2023-08-11 Hope for Iran in the Gospel: The Intimacy of Heart Languages
2023-08-11 Culture Wars Distract From Jesus' Call
2023-08-11 UFOs
2023-08-11 DISCUSSION: Is Trump the Moderate?
2023-08-11 In the world after the Fall
2023-08-10 Truth is Essential to the United States' Social Fabric
2023-08-10 The American Pro-Life Movement is a Confidence Game
2023-08-10 When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 3
2023-08-10 Does Dr. Dobson Owe Christians An Apology For Trump?
2023-08-10 Meritocracy? What Meritocracy?
2023-08-09 When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 2
2023-08-09 But why isn’t everybody persuaded? (Part Two)
2023-08-09 Boredom: How Trumpism Ends
2023-08-09 Being Scared of God
2023-08-09 Elite Self-Knowledge
2023-08-08 Breaking Bad Faith
2023-08-08 The Power of Queer Representation in Media
2023-08-08 Worthless Idols and Cracked Cisterns
2023-08-08 When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 1
2023-08-08 And Now, "Freedom Conservatism"
2023-08-07 Let's Talk About Ohio Issue One
2023-08-07 Monday Miscellany, 8/7/23
2023-08-07 How do you kill 11 million people? 3 reasons why we've likely been duped
2023-08-07 What Is The Gospel of Judas?
2023-08-07 Is A.I. Just B.S.?
2023-08-06 Trump, DeSantis, and Retribution in Our Theology and Political Discourse
2023-08-05 What Does Being Politically Pastoral Look Like?
2023-08-05 Review of Rev. Kenneth Wheeler's US: The Resurrection of American Terror
2023-08-04 The Last Day
2023-08-04 Does the United States Appear Highly Religious?
2023-08-04 What Is Love?
2023-08-04 DISCUSSION: Artificial Intelligence & the Free Market
2023-08-03 Should God (Or Anyone) Save the Supreme Court?
2023-08-03 Did Slavery Benefit Slaves? Florida Schools Say ‘Yes!’ Faith Leaders Say ‘Definitely Not!’
2023-08-03 Yet Another Trump Arraignment, Yet More on American Christianity
2023-08-03 On The Absurdity Of Book Banning
2023-08-03 Country Music’s Populism Showing Out in “Try that in a Small Town”
2023-08-03 Questions, Enoughism Part 3
2023-08-03 Dialogue in Heaven between God and Satan
2023-08-03 A Gentle Witness: What Would a Gentle Public Ministry Look Like?
2023-08-03 "Secular" Means "Of an Age"
2023-08-03 Napping as a Spiritual Practice
2023-08-03 Napping as a Spiritual Practice
2023-08-03 Project 2025: A Republican Plan For The Future
2023-08-03 3 Needs the Government Can't Meet: Part 2--Unconditional Love
2023-08-02 Eucharist, Enoughism Part 2
2023-08-02 Attendance is Down in Churches, But Up at Christian Movies
2023-08-01 The Indefensible Weaponization of Scripture: A Parent's Perspective
2023-08-01 Sharing, Enoughism Part 1
2023-08-01 Resisting Shortcuts to Power: Jesus, Gandalf and the American Church
2023-08-01 Child Credit Proposal Would Include the Unborn
2023-07-31 UFOs and Atomic Weaponry
2023-07-31 A Home for Everyone or My Universalism Is Showing
2023-07-31 Monday Miscellany, 7/31/23
2023-07-31 2 Reasons why Jesus’ kingdom is truly, “Liberty and Justice for all”; 10 Commandments #2
2023-07-30 Christian nation series: "Thou Shalt Not Steal" and reparations
2023-07-30 SPIRITUALITY FOR RELIGIOUS RADICALS
2023-07-29 Want A Happy and Fulfilling Life? Don't Be A Liberal
2023-07-28 3 Needs the Government Can't Meet: Part 1--Us vs. Them
2023-07-28 Why The World, and the Church, Rejects The Message of Jesus
2023-07-28 What is Blasphemy?
2023-07-28 How Do We Share Our Faith With Our Friends?
2023-07-28 A Defense of Organized Religion
2023-07-28 DISCUSSION: Everything Is Upside Down
2023-07-28 Sound of Freedom: A Politically Incorrect Review
2023-07-28 Sound of Freedom: A Call to Action
2023-07-27 Naturalism and Suffering Bodies
2023-07-27 Friendships Can Save Us
2023-07-27 Old and New, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 3
2023-07-27 Long Live the Weeds
2023-07-27 Who Is My Neighbor?
2023-07-26 Is ET Dipping and Dodging and Playing Footsie with Us?
2023-07-26 Mustard and Yeast, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 2
2023-07-26 A Demonology of the Internet
2023-07-26 No Dreamhouse for Women: Baptists and Barbie
2023-07-25 The Kingdom, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 1
2023-07-25 Salvation from Being "Spiritual"
2023-07-25 President Warren Harding's Liberal Baptist Faith
2023-07-24 "Don't Retaliate with Insults"
2023-07-24 Monday Miscellany, 7/24/23
2023-07-24 3 reasons why the 10 Commandments apply for Christians today. 10 Commandments #1
2023-07-23 God's Existence Doesn't End Where Tragedies Begin
2023-07-23 Evangelicals Live in a Two-story House
2023-07-23 What Does It Mean To Be Still Before Our God?
2023-07-23 Christian nation series: a Christian case for gay marriage
2023-07-22 Soudan
2023-07-21 A New Blend on the Block: Conspirituality
2023-07-21 Why Is The Movie “Sound of Freedom” So Controversial?
2023-07-21 Who Does Attend Church
2023-07-21 DISCUSSION: Americans Distrust Nearly All of Their Institutions
2023-07-20 The Art of Deception, How Netanyahu Continues to Rule, Part One: Aryeh Deri
2023-07-20 Underrepresented: Oklahoma Death Row Inmate Michael Smith, the Relentless Campaign of a Mother and the Failure of the Capital Habeas Unit in Oklahoma
2023-07-20 Trueman: A Notre Dame Professor Sues the Student Paper
2023-07-20 Christian Nation series: would Jesus agree with "biblical" divorce?
2023-07-20 The SBC Will Never Allow Women To Be Pastors And Here’s Why
2023-07-20 Exclusion, How Not to View the World Part 3
2023-07-20 Laws Against Minors Receiving Communion Wine
2023-07-20 It's Not Okay to be Anti-Gay
2023-07-19 Confessing Our Evangelical Sins
2023-07-19 People as Weeds, How Not to View the World Part 2
2023-07-19 Luther on NOT Obeying Rulers
2023-07-19 Migrants, Refugees, And Religious Liberty
2023-07-19 What if the terrorists aren’t the terrorists? Israel's recent attacks in Jenin (West Bank) #2
2023-07-18 The Denial of Human Dignity in New Mexico: The Tragic Story of Alex Fierro
2023-07-18 A Problematic Passage, How Not to View the World Part 1
2023-07-18 Affirmative Action for the Elite
2023-07-18 What's A Pro-Life Illinoisan To do?
2023-07-18 How Does God Respond to Prayer?
2023-07-17 Christian Nation series: toxic masculinity discusses marriage
2023-07-17 What is True?--Jesus Says, "Look at the Fruit."
2023-07-17 "Tell Us Lies"
2023-07-17 Monday Miscellany, 7/17/23
2023-07-17 Demons, Demons Everywhere: The Spiritual War or Just Another Tuesday?
2023-07-17 Would the real terrorists please stand up? Understanding recent events in Israel and Palestine and why it matters
2023-07-15 How Can We Hold Both Righteous Hope And Righteous Anger?
2023-07-15 "Evidence Unraveled: The Fight to Free Anthony Sanchez" (Transcript)
2023-07-15 Watch Mike Pence, Sniveling and Groveling His Moment of Greatness Away
2023-07-14 Israeli settlers' persistent tormenting of Palestinian Christians – this is bigotry
2023-07-14 American History at the "Beauty Salon"
2023-07-14 America's Escalating Involvement in the War in Ukraine
2023-07-14 DISCUSSION: How Much Should a Candidate's Religion Matter?
2023-07-14 Jesus Never Promised a Payday: Unmasking the Prosperity Gospel Myth
2023-07-14 Change the Conversation
2023-07-13 Victimization or Vulnerable?
2023-07-13 Victimization or Vulnerable?
2023-07-13 God Not in the Abuse of Hagar
2023-07-13 God Not in the Abuse of Hagar
2023-07-13 My Surgery Tuesday--Following Science and Facts are "Woke"
2023-07-13 Community, Part 3 of The Deceitfulness of Wealth
2023-07-13 Will We Evangelicals Ever Tell the Truth?
2023-07-13 God's Hangmen & the Duty of Rulers
2023-07-13 Holy Sh*t Swindlers: The Bitter Pill of Faithful Fraudulence and Deceptive Divinity
2023-07-13 Please Presbyterian, Don't Revisit Female Ordination
2023-07-13 No, Your Grace, Gay People Shouldn't Be Thrown in Jail
2023-07-13 An Open Letter to The Family of Juli Busken: "We Can Stop the Killing"
2023-07-12 Christian Nation series: Jesus, totalitarianism, and genocide
2023-07-12 Creation - God Takes Her Sweet Time
2023-07-12 Heaven, Hell and Mental Health
2023-07-12 Sharing, Part 2 of The Deceitfulness of Wealth
2023-07-12 Who Does Not Attend Church
2023-07-12 ESG And The Republican Turn Against Business Interests
2023-07-12 The "Worked Up" vs. The "Woke"
2023-07-12 Answers Are Not All They Claim
2023-07-11 Literalism Is a Cracked Cistern
2023-07-11 "Don't Call Everything a Conspiracy"
2023-07-11 Obstruction, Part 1 of The Deceitfulness of Wealth
2023-07-11 Marriage and Culture
2023-07-11 Israel's Democracy is Dying, as Bibi Gleefully Dances Around the Open Grave
2023-07-10 Some Thoughts on American Christianity
2023-07-10 Christian Nation series: secret exceptions to "thou shalt not kill"
2023-07-10 From Pacifism to Peacebuilding—An Address to the Ekklesia Project
2023-07-10 Monday Miscellany, 7/10/23
2023-07-10 Podcast: Just Be Kind
2023-07-10 Why our churches often look more like empire than Kingdom; 3 reasons why they are not about to change anytime soon; and what we should do about it: Beast/anti-Christ #9
2023-07-09 Modesty is Good
2023-07-09 Trans Kids and Data Analysis: Understanding the "Gender Affirming Care is Lifesaving" Claim
2023-07-08 "Searching Out the Truth about the Mountain Meadows Massacre"
2023-07-07 Rohrer Removed, Rabell Approved for Reinstatement. What’s Done, What’s Left Undone?
2023-07-07 Rohrer Removed, Rabell Reinstated. What’s Done, What’s Left Undone?
2023-07-07 Nuance, Part 3 of The Destructiveness of All or Nothing
2023-07-07 Luther vs. Christian Nationalism
2023-07-07 DISCUSS: Parents and the Military
2023-07-07 Josh Hawley: Christian Nationalist Arsonist
2023-07-06 Can You Trust Christian Businesses?
2023-07-06 Medium Large: Are Mediums For Real?
2023-07-06 Religious Freedom or Discrimination?
2023-07-06 Christian Nation series: beyond parenting, to authority
2023-07-06 If Paul Could See the Church in America Today, We’d be Getting a Letter!
2023-07-06 The Bible, Part 2 of The Destructiveness of All or Nothing
2023-07-06 Why My Christian Grandparents Were Anti-Fascist, Democrat, and Pro-Choice
2023-07-06 Right Wing Marxism
2023-07-06 Divine Law, Justice And Grace
2023-07-06 I Found My Truths in Online Scriptures, Here’s How
2023-07-06 The Scriptures
2023-07-05 Advice for Critics of the Catholic Church: Both Within and Without
2023-07-05 By Deeds, Part 1 of The Destructiveness of All or Nothing
2023-07-05 The Price of Peace
2023-07-05 Luther on Compelled Speech
2023-07-04 Having a Catholic Voice in Party Politics
2023-07-04 In Defense of Dirtbags
2023-07-04 Breaking Bad Faith: A Book Review
2023-07-04 What Do a Formerly Enslaved Orator and the Son of God Say About July 4th?
2023-07-04 Loving Your Country Is Like Loving Your Family
2023-07-04 Medieval Christian Nationalism? Crusades and Christian Nations
2023-07-04 Christian Nation series: "Honor your parents"
2023-07-03 Be a Hero: 7 Essentials for Saving America
2023-07-03 July 4th: Religious Pilgrims, Religious Freedom & Christian Nationalism
2023-07-03 A Plea to Progressive Catholics: You Have Power, Use It!
2023-07-03 Monday Miscellany, 7/3/23
2023-07-03 The Slow Suffocation of Civil Rights in the United States
2023-07-02 An InConsistent Life Ethic: A Review of The Church’s Best-Kept Secret by Mark Shea
2023-07-02 Overcoming Roadblocks to Unity in the Church: Part 2--The Surrender Solution
2023-07-01 "Inside the Mormon Church’s Globe-Spanning Real-Estate Empire"
2023-07-01 Freedom By Another Name: Giving Up Our Illusions of Personal Freedom
2023-07-01 Why I Believe in Pro-Patient/Pro-Family Autonomy
2023-06-30 An Actually "Consistent Ethic of Life" Would Care About Women's Lives (a response to a “consistent ethic of life,” part 2)
2023-06-30 An Actually "Consistent Ethic of Life" Would Care About Women's Lives (a response to a “consistent ethic of life,” part 2)
2023-06-30 The UnChristlike Truth of "Religious Liberties"
2023-06-30 Close Encounters of the Spiritual Kind
2023-06-30 Our Pagan Theocracy
2023-06-30 DISCUSS: The "Whole Life" Ethic
2023-06-30 Prophets: From Sacred Scrolls to Stocks and Shares
2023-06-29 St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta--She Served the Poor AND Established AIDS Hospice Centers
2023-06-29 Why Would A Christian Celebrate Pride Month?
2023-06-29 The Big Red, White, and Blue in the Room: A Sermon about Deliberating the Flag in Church
2023-06-29 Question-Doubt-Tell Stories=Community
2023-06-29 Care, Part 3 of Our Dependence on One Another
2023-06-29 Connected, Part 2 of Our Dependence on One Another
2023-06-29 Dependency, Part 1 of Our Dependence on One Another
2023-06-29 Just How Indoctrinated Are Young Adults?
2023-06-28 This Flag Has Legs: A Sermon Inviting Dialogue about Flag Placement in Church
2023-06-28 The New Donatism
2023-06-27 The Sinister Role of Shame and Guilt in Religion
2023-06-27 My Appearance as a Guest Speaker--Affirmation is About the Sanctity of Life
2023-06-27 The Need for "Apolitical Space"
2023-06-27 What Every Christian Should Do in Times of Fear
2023-06-27 What Every Christian Should Do in Times of Fear
2023-06-26 Oops!... I Culted Again: A Snarky Guide to Identifying Cults
2023-06-26 All the Conspiracies Podcast and Links
2023-06-26 Monday Miscellany, 6/26/23
2023-06-26 Pride Month: What does it mean to love our neighbor?
2023-06-25 Pride Month: Christians Just Don't Get It!
2023-06-25 Christian Nation series: "Holy Sabbath, Batman!"
2023-06-24 6 Telltale Signs Your Pastor or Prophet Might Be a Divine Con Artist
2023-06-24 Racism in Israel Part 3: Ethiopian Israeli Abducted By Hamas in 2014, A Netanyahu Scandal Swept Under The Rug
2023-06-23 How the Handmaid's Tale is about the Undocumented
2023-06-23 Is the Universe a Brain?
2023-06-23 DISCUSSION: Destroying the Republican Party?
2023-06-22 Can We Be “Anti-Abortion” in Ways That Actually Affirm Life? (a response to a “consistent ethic of life,” part 1)
2023-06-22 Can We Be “Anti-Abortion” in Ways That Actually Affirm Life? (a response to a “consistent ethic of life,” part 1)
2023-06-22 Sustainable, Part 3 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice
2023-06-22 The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the neoliberal co-opting of religious discourse
2023-06-22 An Evangelical Call for "Reformed Catholicism" (Isn't that Lutheranism?)
2023-06-22 The Dignity Of Work Is Linked To The Dignity Of The Workers
2023-06-21 The Battle Is not Yours, but God's
2023-06-21 I Just Bought A Lady A Cigarette
2023-06-21 Gehenna, Part 2 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice
2023-06-21 "Queerness as the redemptive message of Christianity"
2023-06-20 Tips and Advice for Guest Preachers and Supply Preachers
2023-06-20 Freedom for Everyone
2023-06-20 Gehenna, Part 1 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice
2023-06-20 Pentagon Fears We Would Lose a War with China
2023-06-19 Racism & Radicalized Christianity in America
2023-06-19 On the (Pending) Bandit-ization of Evangelicalism
2023-06-19 Christian Nation series: "God's name in vain"
2023-06-19 Monday Miscellany, 6/19/23
2023-06-19 Two Lessons Learned from Catholic Integralism
2023-06-18 Shame on You Biden, Modi and U.S. Congress
2023-06-17 Left or Right or Jesus?
2023-06-17 Prophets Fighting for Environmental Justice: Preaching Ideas for Jer. 20, Matt. 10
2023-06-17 Learning from Nehemiah’s Strategy to Overcome Opposition
2023-06-16 The Crisis in the Pews
2023-06-16 British Belonging, the Bloom Review and the Coronation
2023-06-16 When a Culture Reaches the Stage of "Decadence"
2023-06-16 DISCUSSION: Oklahoma Approves a Public Catholic School
2023-06-15 He Thought He was Right: Liberality Must Kiss Righteousness
2023-06-15 MAGA and Moral Decline
2023-06-15 As I Watch the Crowd at the Second Trump Indictment
2023-06-15 A Kingdom, Part 3 of A Different Iteration of our Present World
2023-06-15 The Openness to "Big Brother"-style Government Surveillance
2023-06-15 We Must Heed The Warnings Before It Is Too Late
2023-06-14 The Power of Dissenting Societies: A Thought
2023-06-14 Four "Hot Button" Issues the Church Must Confront
2023-06-14 "Fix Your Thoughts on What Is True"
2023-06-14 Book Review -- For the Facing of this Hour: Preaching that Resists White Christian Nationalism
2023-06-14 Justice, Part 2 of A Different Iteration of our Present World
2023-06-14 The Percentage of "Social Conservatives" Surges
2023-06-14 Why Ron DeSantis is Evil, and Donald Trump is not (really)
2023-06-13 Faith, Country, Caste! New Survey Highlights American (Mis)Understandings
2023-06-13 Serving Earthly Rulers
2023-06-13 Choosing Science and Reality is Choosing Life and Love; It's Choosing God
2023-06-13 A Harvest, Part 1 of A Different Iteration of our Present World
2023-06-13 Trump's Indictment
2023-06-13 Allow Me to Introduce Myself
2023-06-12 Monday Miscellany, 6/12/23
2023-06-12 Are the Seven Seals God's wrath? Revelation #4
2023-06-11 Disciples Encounter People
2023-06-10 Christian Nation series: "no other gods"
2023-06-09 Moving and Death Cleaning
2023-06-09 DISCUSSION: Moving
2023-06-09 Pat Robertson Leaves Behind Legacy of Hatred & ‘Untold Damage’
2023-06-08 Pat Robertson's Legacy
2023-06-08 U.S. Flag in the Church? Preaching on Patriotic Holidays
2023-06-08 What is Wisdom saying to you?
2023-06-08 The Woman, Part 3 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women
2023-06-08 Pentecost and the Fall of Civilizations
2023-06-07 Religious Leaders: From Answer Givers to People Who Try Stuff
2023-06-07 Religious Leaders: From Answer Givers to People Who Try Stuff
2023-06-07 Dear Pope Francis, Please Correct Fascist-Leaning Catholics Before It's Too Late
2023-06-07 The "America is a Christian Nation" hoax, revealed
2023-06-07 Flagging the Flag – Idolatry and Freedom: Preaching Exodus 20:1-6
2023-06-07 Book Review: Abdul Ghaffar Khan, My Life and Struggle.
2023-06-07 Celebrating Queer Magic with Sigils
2023-06-07 Jairus' Daughter, Part 2 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women
2023-06-07 "What can we do when there’s nothing left to conserve?"
2023-06-06 Healing, Part 1 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women
2023-06-06 From Culture War to Religious War
2023-06-06 Systematic Structures Of Sin And The Poor
2023-06-05 A World of One
2023-06-05 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Parallels to Modern-Day Fascism
2023-06-05 Monday Miscellany, 6/5/23
2023-06-05 Monday Miscellany, 6/5/23
2023-06-05 Is God a moral monster? The book of Revelation and wrath #3
2023-06-05 The Catholic Church and IVF
2023-06-05 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Anti-Nazi Martyr and Parallels to Modern-Day Fascism
2023-06-04 The Dawn of our Post-Pride Moment, and on the ethno/class divide of rainbow flags
2023-06-04 A World of Three
2023-06-03 A World of One Hundred
2023-06-02 Jerusalem's Gay Pride & Netanyahu's Homophobic Coalition
2023-06-02 Is the Death Penalty Christian? An Anabaptist Response
2023-06-02 New Religion Statistics & Anti-Institutionalism
2023-06-02 DISCUSSION: Reversing the Decline of Christianity in the U.S.
2023-06-02 What If The Future You Fear Is Already Here?
2023-06-01 The Sermon on the Mount, Part 3 of Obeying What Jesus Taught
2023-06-01 The Elder Brother Syndrome
2023-05-31 Don't Think You Know It All!
2023-05-31 The Debt Ceiling And Work Requirements: Why The GOP Doesn’t Represent Christianity
2023-05-31 An Exchange, Part 2 of Obeying What Jesus Taught
2023-05-31 Intelligence Is Over-Rated
2023-05-30 Sperging the Mass(es): more notes on neurodivergence and trad piety
2023-05-30 St. Titus Bradsma--Carmelite Friar and Anti-Nazi Martyr
2023-05-30 The Great Commission, Part 1 of Obeying What Jesus Taught
2023-05-30 Donald Trump and Religion: A Complicated Relationship
2023-05-30 Businesses That Won't Take Money
2023-05-29 Do Blue Lives Really Matter: A Memorial Day Reflection
2023-05-29 Surviving Pride Month Podcast and Links
2023-05-29 Monday Miscellany 5/29/23
2023-05-29 Is God a moral monster? The book of Revelation and wrath #2
2023-05-28 Gallagher's Hell
2023-05-28 St. Maximillian Kolbe--A Catholic Anti-Nazi Martyr
2023-05-28 Catholic School Student Arrested for having Catholic Beliefs.
2023-05-27 Standing with Civil Rights, Not the Oppressor, A Current Worldwide Threat
2023-05-26 Let Them Kick You Out
2023-05-26 Let Them Kick You Out
2023-05-26 5 Fascinating Facts About Scientology
2023-05-26 Is the Death Penalty Effective? An Anabaptist Critique
2023-05-26 The Battle (Time tells the story, but are we reading?)
2023-05-26 Not Aligning Pastoral Ministry and the Church with the Modern Family is to Align with Fascism
2023-05-26 Transgressive Art in the Vacuum of Western Culture
2023-05-26 DISCUSSION: Should Conservatives Avoid the Culture War?
2023-05-25 Justice, Part 3 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice
2023-05-25 GOP women promote purity (but don't practice it) + sex appeal + toxic femulinity
2023-05-25 On Anti-Christian Conservatism
2023-05-24 The Problem with “Agreeing to Disagree”
2023-05-24 How Much More Can We Take?
2023-05-24 The Material, Part 2 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice
2023-05-24 Political Faith vs. Political Skepticism
2023-05-23 The Ethereal, Part 1 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice
2023-05-23 All Lives are Equally-Sacred, An Icon Created in Prison
2023-05-23 Politics & the New Religious Landscape
2023-05-22 Joe Biden and Religion: Exploring His Faith
2023-05-22 Love the Sinner Hate the Sin Podcast and Links
2023-05-22 Monday Miscellany 5/22/23
2023-05-22 The Religious Views of Tucker Carlson
2023-05-22 Is God a moral monster? The book of Revelation and wrath #1
2023-05-19 What's a Good Person, Anyway?
2023-05-19 What's a Good Person, Anyway?
2023-05-19 Did Early Anabaptists Support the Death Penalty?
2023-05-19 Anger is Not a Fruit of the Spirit
2023-05-19 Anti-Intellectualism is Anti-Life
2023-05-19 Luther's Rabelaisian Humor
2023-05-19 DISCUSSION: Immigration
2023-05-19 Devotional guide: Rev 12:1-14:20
2023-05-18 Justice, Part 3 of A Unity That’s Big Enough
2023-05-17 What Yields When Political and Religious Thought Converge and Conflict?
2023-05-17 Why You Aren't Actually Entitled to Your Own Opinions
2023-05-17 Minority Rule is Lurking in Texas, My Home State
2023-05-17 The Evil That Considers Itself Good
2023-05-17 Knowing, Part 2 of A Unity That’s Big Enough
2023-05-17 Is Zelensky Jewish?
2023-05-16 Farewell, Part 1 of A Unity That’s Big Enough
2023-05-16 John Kleinig's New Book "God's Word"
2023-05-16 Statelessness, The Default State & Status Of Christians?
2023-05-15 A Brief Musing After a Recent Trip to Brazil
2023-05-15 Monday Miscellany 5/15/23
2023-05-15 Jesus' Harshest Criticism Were Reserved for the Religious
2023-05-13 A Theology of Liberation: a Book Review
2023-05-13 A Theology of Liberation: a Book Review
2023-05-13 Searching for Luther on Laughter
2023-05-12 A Parent's Crushing Regret About Their LGBTQ+ Child
2023-05-12 My New-Found Love for Bernie Sanders--And Don't Even Say, "But Abortion."
2023-05-12 Flame Interacts with "Spirituality of the Cross"
2023-05-12 DISCUSSION: What Do You Appreciate About Your Church?
2023-05-11 How Shame-Breaking Is Contagious
2023-05-11 How Shame-Breaking Is Contagious
2023-05-11 Ethics and Values, Part 3 of Loving What Jesus Taught
2023-05-11 Cultural Imperialism
2023-05-10 Paul’s Epistle to the Church in America
2023-05-10 30 Pieces of Silver
2023-05-10 Guns, Violence, And Death: The Spirit Of Anti-Christ
2023-05-10 Advocacy, Part 2 of Loving What Jesus Taught
2023-05-10 Social Contagion
2023-05-10 Why I Must Move from Deconstruction and Anger Back to Love, Thankfulness, and Jesus
2023-05-09 A Verdict for Donald Trump, and for All His Disciples
2023-05-09 Are One Out of Four High Schoolers LGBTQ+?
2023-05-09 The myth of the independent American man is wreaking havoc
2023-05-09 Advocate, Part 1 of Loving What Jesus Taught
2023-05-08 5 Things Pastors Can Do For The Next Election Cycle
2023-05-08 Why Almost Anything is More in Alignment With Jesus' Teachings than Pro-Trump Christianity/Catholicism
2023-05-08 Christian org The Israel Guys calls for a "biblical" massacre of innocent Palestinians
2023-05-08 Monday Miscellany, 5/8/23
2023-05-08 A Christian family that needs our help
2023-05-08 Good Trouble: Disruptive Hope for a Hurting World
2023-05-08 Anthony Sanchez: The Condensed Innocence Report
2023-05-06 Catholics Under Attack
2023-05-06 Nature Reveals the “Unknown God”: Acts 17:22-31; John 14:15-21
2023-05-06 Anthony Sanchez: The Innocence Report
2023-05-05 HANUMAN: Part II Diplomacy With Defiance
2023-05-05 Real Christianity Stands with the Oppressed, Not the Oppressor
2023-05-05 Party Crashing
2023-05-05 DISCUSSION: The End of Social Media?
2023-05-05 What If the Church Valued Diversity?
2023-05-04 How to Spin 2000+ Bible Verses about Social Justice
2023-05-04 Words from Oklahoma’s Death Row: Emmanuel Littlejohn on the Richard Glossip Moment
2023-05-04 Dear Mama God, Part 3 of Gendering God
2023-05-04 Traits of Paganism
2023-05-03 Tucker Carlson: A Prophet for Our Times?
2023-05-03 Gender Functions, Part 2 of Gendering God
2023-05-03 Luther's German Bible
2023-05-03 Did you know? The "pro-life" party is also pro-suicide
2023-05-02 Biblical vs Secular Justice –– What’s the Difference?
2023-05-02 Exclusivity, Part 1 of Gendering God
2023-05-02 Never Again--Why Germany and the German Catholic Church Are So Appealing to Me
2023-05-02 How a Cat Glorifies God
2023-05-02 Is King Charles a Christian?
2023-05-01 Feminism Against Progress Podcast and Links
2023-05-01 Monday Miscellany 5/1/23
2023-05-01 We Don’t Need the National Day of Prayer
2023-04-30 The Failure of the Campaign to Save Richard Glossip & The Hope of Resurrection
2023-04-30 The Chair of Peter and Christ---Who is More in Alignment?
2023-04-29 The Mystery of the Fake Ms. McClaren
2023-04-29 HANUMAN: Part I-The Diplomat in Disguise
2023-04-29 Texas wants to take away religious liberty
2023-04-28 Black Gay Clergy Ousted From Baptist World Alliance Commission
2023-04-28 A List of Bureaucratic Assaults on Religious Liberty
2023-04-28 DISCUSSION: Getting the Sabbath Day Off?
2023-04-27 Sorry Evangelicals, You Don't Get to Own Jesus
2023-04-27 Life Abundant, Part 3 of Fulness of Life for Everyone
2023-04-27 Why Christians MUST Oppose Anti-Transgender Legislation
2023-04-27 "The Science of Reading"
2023-04-27 What if the Church Focused on Justice Instead of Just-Us?
2023-04-26 The Party of the Beast: Intro
2023-04-26 Why Did Rupert Murdoch Fire Tucker Carlson?
2023-04-26 Banana Land: Our Delightful, Delicious Delusion
2023-04-26 A Higher Bar: On the Hidden Fallacies of the Richard Glossip Clemency Hearing
2023-04-26 The ethnic cleansing of Emmaus
2023-04-26 Lutherans Under Communism
2023-04-26 A Sheep Gate, Part 2 of Fulness of Life for Everyone
2023-04-26 Tucker Carlson Fired – Are the Adults in Charge Again?
2023-04-25 Should Christians Swear Oaths?
2023-04-25 A Shepherd, Part 1 of Fulness of Life for Everyone
2023-04-25 The Change in Evangelicals' Politics
2023-04-25 Catholic Politicians and Communion
2023-04-24 Science Denial and Anti-Intellectualism are Endangering People
2023-04-24 Children ARE Being Groomed... But Not How You Think!
2023-04-24 Words, Voyeurism and Presence: On Our Tornado Recovery
2023-04-24 Monday Miscellany, 4/24/23
2023-04-22 Do the Ten Commandments Belong in Public School Classrooms?
2023-04-22 God is “Love” (in a human, dysfunctional sort-of way)
2023-04-22 Lindsey Barnett: On the Murder of Her Grandparents, Questioning the Judicial Process & the Fight for Her Children
2023-04-21 Say "No" to Religious Shame
2023-04-21 Say "No" to Religious Shame
2023-04-21 Nuanced Political Tactics
2023-04-21 DISCUSSION: Electability
2023-04-20 The Idolatry of Christian Nationalism
2023-04-20 Calling on the Religious Left to Protect Trans Kids
2023-04-20 Evangelicals Are Still Missing the Point
2023-04-20 3 Things Catholic Authority Is NOT
2023-04-20 Could a Gay & Trans Purge Happen in America?
2023-04-20 Could a Gay & Trans Purge Happen in America?
2023-04-20 Good News, Part 3 of Resurrection as the Good News
2023-04-20 Where Praise Music Comes From
2023-04-20 Earth Day 2023: The Earth Mourns And Withers
2023-04-19 Hate crimes are illegal, unless they are directed at Christians.
2023-04-19 Make-Up Assignment to Celebrate my Husband's Birthday
2023-04-19 Undoing, Part 2 of Resurrection as the Good News
2023-04-19 Remembering Mad Magazine
2023-04-18 Lying for Jesus?
2023-04-18 Reversal, Part 1 of Resurrection as the Good News
2023-04-18 Gun violence and the "politicization" of dead children
2023-04-18 Our Favorite Christian Deception, Easily Remedied
2023-04-18 Predictions of Christianity's Comeback
2023-04-17 What Would Jesus Do About Transgender People?
2023-04-17 Sexual Ethics, Justice, and Life, Keeping All in Balance
2023-04-17 Monday Miscellany, 4/17/23
2023-04-16 Abortion access for women’s health? What about the baby?
2023-04-15 Should Politically Active Churches Lose Their Tax-exemption?
2023-04-15 The Sitting U.S. President Is "Above the Law"
2023-04-15 Trump and Pence Say Guns Don't Cause Mass Shootings
2023-04-15 Notes on Andrew Tate
2023-04-14 On The Ground, Israel, Hillary and Barack, A Lost Opportunity Part 2
2023-04-14 Israel severely restricts Orthodox Easter celebration in Jerusalem
2023-04-14 Where the Left and the Right Come Together
2023-04-14 DISCUSSION: What Could Bring Americans Together?
2023-04-13 Republican Lawmakers--Don't Mess with This Texas MamaBear and Former Republican
2023-04-13 The Reawakening of Pursuit for Democracy and the Israeli Flag
2023-04-13 That Which is Life Giving, Part 3 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive
2023-04-13 Racism and the White Working Class
2023-04-13 The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine In Light Of Pacem In Terris
2023-04-12 Building Our "No" Muscles
2023-04-12 Building Our "No" Muscles
2023-04-12 Bernie Sanders on Capitalism: Religious Language in Politics
2023-04-12 Loosing and Binding, Part 2 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive
2023-04-12 Loosing and Binding, Part 2 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive
2023-04-12 Should Churches Hide Their Controversial Beliefs?
2023-04-12 What Child Is This?
2023-04-12 The Plains Truth
2023-04-12 The Tragedy of Saul is a Warning About the Seductive Destruction of Power
2023-04-11 Commission Stories, Part 1 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive
2023-04-11 When "The World" Infiltrates the Church
2023-04-11 Children, Guns, and Abortion
2023-04-11 Announcing Winner of Drawing from Ministry, Preaching, and Social Issues Survey
2023-04-11 An Easter Puzzle & What ChatGBT Is Good For
2023-04-10 Sierra Pacific Synod Council Must Apologize, Restore Rev. Nelson Rabell-González
2023-04-10 Monday Miscellany, 4/10/23
2023-04-09 A Different Kind of Easter Like No Other
2023-04-09 Touching the Wounds of Our Planet: Thomas and Our Eco-Spiritual Crisis
2023-04-09 He is Risen, Indeed!
2023-04-09 The Resurrection of God : A Modern Easter Vision
2023-04-08 The Cry Of Peonage
2023-04-07 Has the Christian Flag Become Too Politicized?
2023-04-07 The Grapes of Wrath — Revisited
2023-04-07 6 Advantages of Not Voting
2023-04-07 21 Key Historical Questions that Should Drive Your Faith Shift
2023-04-07 Derry Girls, Nostalgia, and the 1990s
2023-04-07 Ecological Stations of the Cross: #6 – The Ruthless Death of Eco-Crucifixion
2023-04-07 From Crucifixion to Resurrection
2023-04-07 DISCUSSION: Easter
2023-04-06 On The Ground, Israel, Observations On Clinton, Rabin, King Hussein, A Lost Opportunity Part One
2023-04-06 Rediscovering God Through Social Justice Rewiring
2023-04-06 Mary at the Tomb, Part 3 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins
2023-04-06 The English In India: Part III
2023-04-06 Catholic church sex abuse scandal in the light of eternity
2023-04-06 We Cannot Pay for Our Sins
2023-04-06 TRUMP INDICATED!
2023-04-05 As Antisemitism Reaches Crisis Level, Christians Must Fight. Here's How....
2023-04-05 Magical Kingdom: The Final Episode
2023-04-05 Resurrection, Part 2 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins
2023-04-05 "American Values" Are in Decline
2023-04-05 Is the Jesus we preach the same Jesus that Paul preached? Easter 2023: Worldviews #11
2023-04-04 The Storm…or The Day My Little Rock Blew Away
2023-04-04 Ecological Stations of the Cross: #3 – Environmental racism
2023-04-04 Is there such a thing as too much Scripture?
2023-04-04 Good News, Part 1 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins
2023-04-04 Political Religion vs. Transcendent Religion
2023-04-04 Vatican Formally Repudiates 'Doctrine of Discovery'
2023-04-04 The Problem with Boys and School, And How to Fix It
2023-04-03 Angry Theologians Talk Back
2023-04-03 Monday Miscellany, 4/3/23
2023-04-03 Easter: are we out of tune with its significance? Worldviews #10
2023-04-03 District Attorney Alvin Bragg Teaches Sunday School
2023-04-02 Antisemitism Is a Problem for Everyone, Including Christians
2023-04-02 Palm Sunday--Jesus Loves All of Us, Not Just Some of Us
2023-04-02 Ecological Stations of the Cross: #1 – Condemned to death
2023-04-02 Weaponizing the Bible in Defense of Guns
2023-04-01 Indictment Medley! Start Spreading the News!
2023-03-31 Why I Wear the Chi-Ro Instead of the Cross Right Now
2023-03-31 ChatGPT Writes a Cranach Post
2023-03-31 DISCUSSION: You Be the Blogger
2023-03-31 Tucker, Transgenderism and the Church
2023-03-31 The Many Genders of Ancient Judaism
2023-03-30 A Word on Trump's Indictment
2023-03-30 Manhattan Grand Jury Indicts Donald Trump
2023-03-30 School Shootings Meet AR-15 Lapel Pins
2023-03-30 The Faith of Our Founders: Natural Law and What Made America Great
2023-03-30 The Importance of Freedom This Passover
2023-03-30 Palm Sunday and a Contrast of Values, Part 3 of On the Foal of a Donkey
2023-03-30 The Author's Intention
2023-03-29 Crash course in Israel's current existential crisis
2023-03-29 Swords, Guns, And Plowshares: Embracing Violence Is Not The Way To Peace
2023-03-29 Palm Sunday Ethics, Part 2 of On the Foal of a Donkey
2023-03-29 Human Intelligence Is Going Down
2023-03-28 In the Face of Unmistakable Evil, is it enough that God weeps too?
2023-03-28 John 3:16-17 (with “Corrections” for the Modern Church)
2023-03-28 Politics of Palm Sunday, Part 1 of On the Foal of a Donkey
2023-03-28 C. S. Lewis on How Fear & Moral Idealism Beget Tyranny
2023-03-28 The Southern White Evangelicals Who Voted for Carter (Not Reagan) in 1980
2023-03-27 Again, America has Chosen Guns over Children
2023-03-27 The English In India: Part I
2023-03-27 Palm Sunday and Countering the Violence of Christian Nationalism
2023-03-27 Endanger for the "Traditional Ideal" or Give Life and Vitality By Aligning With Science
2023-03-27 Monday Miscellany 3/27/23
2023-03-27 The New Creation has begun: but do we believe it? Worldviews #9
2023-03-26 The Simulation Hypothesis
2023-03-26 Introduction to Open Theism
2023-03-26 A Swastika Within A Circle
2023-03-26 “Dem Bones” Will “Lift Every Voice and Sing”! Sermon on Ezekiel 37:1-14
2023-03-26 Angellos Ioannis Malefakis : This is the Consequence of Sending Me Death Threats
2023-03-25 Israel Removes Law Restricting Jewish West Bank Settlers
2023-03-24 The Rise and Fall and Rise of Jimmy Carter
2023-03-24 "Love My Enemies? Sorry Jesus We Just Don't Do That Sort of Thing Here"
2023-03-24 A Theological Examination of ChatGBT
2023-03-24 DISCUSSION: The War in Ukraine
2023-03-23 A Story of Hope, Part 3 of Lazarus and Choosing Love Over Injustice
2023-03-23 Light and Christ
2023-03-23 Do Not Let Disappointment Obscure The Greater Good Biden Has Done
2023-03-22 Gov. Kay Ivey: Alabama's CHICKENHAWK
2023-03-22 Looking Back at the Church of Donald Trump
2023-03-22 The Eschatology of the Execution Chamber: A Primer
2023-03-22 Pope Francis Instructed Leadership to Listen; Some Have; Some Haven't
2023-03-22 Americans vs. Both Political Parties
2023-03-22 Apocalypticism and John's Jesus, Part 2 of Lazarus and Choosing Love Over Injustice Series
2023-03-21 Terror attack on Church of Gethsemane, Jerusalem
2023-03-21 Repairing the Damage
2023-03-21 10 Reasons NOT to "Feel Sorry" for Parents of LGBTQ+ Children
2023-03-21 Teleport Tourism #3: Yemen
2023-03-21 Lazarus' Resurrection, Part 1 of Lazarus and Choosing Love Over Injustice Series
2023-03-21 Truth in Labeling
2023-03-21 A Few Clarifying Words
2023-03-20 Reviving Dry Bones: Countering White Supremacy in Christian Nationalism
2023-03-20 Monday Miscellany 3/20/23
2023-03-19 Acceptance--A Matter of Life and Death
2023-03-19 Sunday Sermon: "Are You Ready to Get Unstuck?"
2023-03-19 Florida Gov. Ron Desantis = Chickenhawk : A Short OpEd
2023-03-18 The Disk-Horse's Last Cup of Coffee
2023-03-18 The Cause-of-Death Equivocation Fallacy
2023-03-18 A Little Romance
2023-03-17 It's Okay That We're Different
2023-03-17 It's Okay That We're Different
2023-03-17 Side B Christianity: A Post-Mortem
2023-03-17 How Non-Christian Religions Are Dealing with Secularism
2023-03-17 DISCUSSION: What Is the Best Song of the 21st Century So Far?
2023-03-17 What exactly does one do with white people?
2023-03-16 Must Donald Trump Be Prosecuted?
2023-03-16 John Chapter 9 and Our Need To Tell A Better Story (Part 3 of 3)
2023-03-16 A Letter to Those Catholics Who Wish to "Purify" the Church and Broader Society
2023-03-16 Good Secularism vs. Bad Secularism
2023-03-15 John Chapter 9 and Our Need To Tell A Better Story (Part 2 of 3)
2023-03-15 ChatGP Tries to Preach Lutheran Sermons
2023-03-14 How the Bible helps us demonize the poor
2023-03-14 John Chapter 9 and Our Need To Tell A Better Story (Part 1 of 3)
2023-03-14 The Revolution of ChatGPT
2023-03-14 Materialism and The American Soul
2023-03-13 Countering Disability Discrimination in Christian Nationalism: John 9:1-41
2023-03-13 Harm Might Be Intentional; I Hope and Pray Not
2023-03-13 Monday Miscellany 3/13/23
2023-03-13 What if we got it all wrong? Deconstructing and Reconstructing: Worldview #7
2023-03-13 The German Synodal Way Rejects Human Teleology and Blesses Sin
2023-03-13 Rest in Power: My Final Conversation with Arthur Brown, Jr. (Immediately Before His Execution)
2023-03-12 Antiracism as a Spiritual Practice
2023-03-12 “Let anyone who is without sin…” : On Serving as Arthur Brown Jr.'s Spiritual Advisor During his Execution
2023-03-11 Open Letter to Pope Francis #2--Alert--Catholic Republican Politician Michael Knowles Seeks to Eradicate Transgenderism (Eradicating Trans People)
2023-03-11 Revolution Now! : A Spiritual Advisor’s Cry After Witnessing the Execution of Arthur Brown Jr. on March 9, 2023
2023-03-10 Oklahoma's Second Thoughts about Marijuana
2023-03-10 DISCUSSION: New Towers of Babel
2023-03-10 Rupert Murdoch Does the Fox Trot
2023-03-09 Joel Osteen has lost his marbles (so have his disciples)
2023-03-09 Celebrating International Women's Day for the First Time--Trump and His Unconditional Supporters Are to Blame
2023-03-09 A World That Is Safe for Everyone (Part 3 of 3)
2023-03-09 Artificial Intelligence, the Golem, & the Genie
2023-03-08 A World That Is Safe for Everyone (Part 2 of 3)
2023-03-08 The Truth about Creativity
2023-03-08 The Coming Chamber: On the Human Experience, Moral Imagination and Arthur Brown, Jr.
2023-03-08 An Appeal to Pope Francis on the 10th Anniversary of His Pontificate
2023-03-07 21 Mistakes in the Bible … and Why They Aren’t a Problem
2023-03-07 Ecological Stations of the Cross, 2023
2023-03-07 A World That Is Safe for Everyone (Part 1 of 3)
2023-03-07 Euthanasia for All
2023-03-07 When the Catholic Church is Safe Throughout for All Catholics, the World Will Also Be
2023-03-06 Selling Christ: Can 'He Gets Us' Get Results?
2023-03-06 Countering Misogyny & Toxic Masculinity in Christian Nationalism
2023-03-06 A Cranach Miscellany
2023-03-06 Girl 17 Ordered to Pay the Family of Her Rapist
2023-03-05 Pope Francis’ AP Ranking: The Second Installment of the March Madness Series
2023-03-05 Woke Like Jesus
2023-03-05 MATTHEW SOERENS on How Listening to Marginalized Christian Voices can Save America
2023-03-05 We have a Job to Do-Daily
2023-03-04 Fighting for Inclusion is Fighting for Life
2023-03-03 Shrewtape on Biblical Inerrancy
2023-03-03 What the Philosophers Thought about Holy Communion
2023-03-03 DISCUSSION: Book Reviews
2023-03-02 “The Church is Killing Its Gay Children” – The Deadly Results of Shame
2023-03-02 A Spiritual Awakening that Establishes Justice (Part 3 of 3)
2023-03-02 The Conservative and Christian Resistance to Hitler
2023-03-02 The Fight for Arthur Brown: Brady Violations, Love & The Struggle to Save a Life
2023-03-01 A Spiritual Awakening that Establishes Justice (Part 2 of 3)
2023-03-01 "Confessions of a Recovering Evangelical" by Daniel Henderson
2023-03-01 Freedom of Speech Confusions
2023-02-28 Apostasy, Scandal, and a Road Well-Trod
2023-02-28 Rupert Murdoch Admits Fox News Hosts Lied
2023-02-28 A Spiritual Awakening that Establishes Justice (Part 1 of 3)
2023-02-28 Making "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" Woke
2023-02-28 Is Mike Pence Refusing to Testify for Fear of Criminal Complicity?
2023-02-27 Disney’s Mulan at 25, and the Best of Can-Do Feminism
2023-02-27 Countering the Anti-Semitism of Christian Nationalism: Genesis 12:1-4
2023-02-27 Lent as Training
2023-02-26 We Are There, the Early Stages of Fascism
2023-02-26 What a National Divorce Would Look Like – And Why The Call Can’t Be Ignored
2023-02-26 The Shade Of Sattay
2023-02-25 The Bad Guys are going to win
2023-02-24 The Three Stages of the World's Attitude to Christianity
2023-02-24 DISCUSSION: How Should Christians Deal with Cultural Hostility?
2023-02-24 Is Mike Pence's Refusal to Testify UnChristian?
2023-02-23 An Ash Wednesday of Reflection--Am I following Church Teaching?
2023-02-23 Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 3 of 3)
2023-02-23 Pregnancy as Slavery
2023-02-23 Prison Reform
2023-02-23 Help Syria and Turkey Today
2023-02-23 The Day My Daughter Met President Jimmy Carter
2023-02-22 Religion And The Oppression of Women
2023-02-22 Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 2 of 3)
2023-02-22 Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
2023-02-22 Mandela on Ideals Worth Living and Dying For
2023-02-22 The Kingdom Is Within You
2023-02-21 Orationes Mortuorum (Complete Text)
2023-02-21 The Poor are Honored through Exile
2023-02-21 Countering the Temptations of Christian Nationalism: Matthew 4:1-11
2023-02-21 Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 1 of 3)
2023-02-21 Racism Opened My Eyes, Then it All Unraveled
2023-02-21 The Black Church Reconsidered
2023-02-21 Youth Leave U.S. Pews Like Rats from a Sinking Church
2023-02-20 My Daughter and I attended the 2023 Asbury Revival: Please don't hate on it!
2023-02-20 Politicising the Asbury Revival
2023-02-20 Our (Dysfunctional) Father, Who Art in Heaven
2023-02-20 Jimmy Carter: A President Whose Christian Faith Shines
2023-02-20 How Four Strains of Protestantism Approach Politics
2023-02-19 10 Principles for Environmental Preaching: How to Craft Eco-Sermons
2023-02-18 Beware This Type of Nuanced Thinking
2023-02-17 Why Do People Love Marxism (and Marxists)?
2023-02-17 Is Nikki Haley Past Prime?
2023-02-17 Christian Nationalism vs Anti-Christian Nationalism
2023-02-17 Did Our Earliest Presidents Let Personal Religious Beliefs Influence Their Decisions?
2023-02-17 Back to the Future – III
2023-02-17 The Three Jobs of Morality - C.S. Lewis
2023-02-17 Why You Can't Have Equality without God
2023-02-17 DISCUSSION: Gay Conservatives
2023-02-17 When Church Leaders Spout Blarbage
2023-02-17 The Emmanuel Littlejohn Tapes: A Summary
2023-02-16 Can you pass this quiz about good works?
2023-02-16 Jesus as Liberation from Systemic Injustice (Part 3 of 3)
2023-02-16 Back to the Future – II
2023-02-16 Dear Pope Francis, Trans Kids Need Life Protection from a Few Catholic Politicians and Part of the Right-Wing
2023-02-16 In Praise of Boredom
2023-02-16 FBI Investigations Of Radical Catholic Traditionalists Can Help The Church
2023-02-16 De Doctrina Christiana: or, The Night of the Disk Horse
2023-02-15 6 Minutes of Witchcraft: Starseeds?!?!
2023-02-15 Jesus as Liberation from Systemic Injustice (Part 2 of 3)
2023-02-15 "A Perfect Hymn"
2023-02-15 What God Talks About
2023-02-14 Back to the Future – I
2023-02-14 Don't Trust Your Pastor!
2023-02-14 Jesus as Liberation from Systemic Injustice (Part 1 of 3)
2023-02-14 Why I Would Rather be a Democrat Than Stand with Fascism--Another Reason I Shifted
2023-02-14 Why Debates Among Christians Often Turn Ugly
2023-02-14 Political Conversions
2023-02-13 ChatGPT mixes politics and religion
2023-02-13 FBI Targeting "Radical Traditional" Christians?
2023-02-13 4 Ways the Catholic Church is a “Sign of Contradiction” to the World
2023-02-12 Ross Douthat Is Right: Spiritual Experimentation Is Dangerous
2023-02-11 The Work Ethic Taught By My Parents---a Break from Injustice
2023-02-11 ChatGPT Progressive Christian sermon on the Holy Spirit
2023-02-10 5 Revolutionary Concepts to Transfigure Faith for the 21st Century
2023-02-10 He Gets Us, But Who Will Get Him?
2023-02-10 Reality--Anti-Fascism or Fascism
2023-02-10 Vocation vs. Idolatry
2023-02-10 DISCUSS: Bonhoeffer vs. the Benedict Option
2023-02-10 The One Fundamental of the Faith
2023-02-09 The Narcissism of Evangelical Christianity - A Lesson From Ebenezer Scrooge
2023-02-09 Rewriting the Sermon on the Mount (Part 3 of 3)
2023-02-09 The High Tech Pronatalists
2023-02-09 Education, Racism, And Black History Month
2023-02-08 Rewriting the Sermon on the Mount (Part 2 of 3)
2023-02-08 Comparing the Right-to-Life with "How Someone Loves"
2023-02-08 Ash Wednesday and Lent: Fasting for Earth as Resistance to Oppression
2023-02-08 Original sin (part 2): a cause of suffering
2023-02-08 The Problems of Each Political Party
2023-02-08 Enemies of the Church
2023-02-08 Living Room Discipleship
2023-02-07 One Year Later, Still No Justice for Rev. Nelson Rabell
2023-02-07 Rewriting the Sermon on the Mount (Part 1 of 3)
2023-02-07 The State of the Union According to Americans
2023-02-06 Outlawing Silent Prayer
2023-02-05 The Canary in the Coal Mine: The IRF Summit and Protecting Religious Freedom in Our World Today
2023-02-05 Nobody Expects the Evangelical Inquisition?
2023-02-04 Teleport Tourism #2: Oro Verde
2023-02-04 FREE ANTHONY SANCHEZ!!! (The Actual Innocence Narrative) /// THE DAD KILLED JEWELL BUSKEN AND THE SON IS ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED FOR IT
2023-02-04 FREE ANTHONY SANCHEZ!!! ( An Innocence Narrative) /// THE DAD KILLED JEWELL BUSKEN AND THE SON IS ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED FOR IT
2023-02-03 Casually Authoritarian Language in Church (or, Don’t Tell Me What to Do)
2023-02-03 Casually Authoritarian Language in Church (or, Don’t Tell Me What to Do)
2023-02-03 Marie Kondo’s Untidiness, and Mine
2023-02-03 Doctrine as a "Guardrail," NOT a "Weapon."
2023-02-03 A disgraceful action by House Republicans against Ilhan Omar
2023-02-03 Making Birth Free
2023-02-03 DISCUSSION: Being Pro-Life After Roe v. Wade
2023-02-03 The Tragedy and The Confusion: Tyre Nichols & Two Responses to Human Cruelty
2023-02-03 Book Review: Commissar Conservatives
2023-02-02 Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices (Part 3 of 3)
2023-02-02 Me? A Racist? It’s Unthinkable!
2023-02-02 The Difference Between Conservatives and Populists
2023-02-01 The Responsible Power & Accountability Sigil
2023-02-01 Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices (Part 2 of 3)
2023-02-01 Do We Live in Israel or Babylon?
2023-01-31 Honest Talk on the “Pastoral Approach” to Sexual Sin
2023-01-31 This is the Most Dangerous Mission Book in a Generation. Seriously.
2023-01-31 Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices (Part 1 of 3)
2023-01-31 Former Mexican Top Cop on Trial in NYC Worshiped the Devil and Santa Muerte
2023-01-31 And now the "Transabled"
2023-01-31 Examining the doctrine of original sin
2023-01-30 The Marginalized and Modern Day Pharisees
2023-01-30 The Ten Commandments of Christian Nationalism (Part 2)
2023-01-30 Publishing My Critique of Constructivism
2023-01-30 I Shouldn't Have To Say That Black Lives Matter
2023-01-30 Ross Doudhat on the Division in the Church
2023-01-29 Why Bishop Fulton J. Sheen’s 1931 Essay on Tolerance is the Key to the Synod on Synodality, and to Catholic Life in the Modern World
2023-01-29 We’re All Snowflakes, and That’s OK
2023-01-29 We’re All Snowflakes, and That’s OK
2023-01-28 My Advocacy Video to the USCCB/Catholic Church
2023-01-28 The Ten Commandments of Christian Nationalism (Part 1)
2023-01-28 Acts 8:26-30 (with Corrections)
2023-01-27 Aligning Our Biases With God's
2023-01-27 Aligning Our Biases With God's
2023-01-27 "Am I my brother's keeper?" The Fatal Beating of Tyre Nichols and Prayers for Peaceful Justice
2023-01-27 "Am I my brother's keeper?" The Fatal Beating of Tyre Nichols and Prayers for Peaceful Justice
2023-01-27 A New Iteration of Our Present World (Part 3 of 3)
2023-01-27 Losing Your Religion & Suicide
2023-01-27 DISCUSSION: Blue Laws Reconsidered?
2023-01-26 Religious Trauma: It's a Real Thing!
2023-01-26 A New Iteration of Our Present World (Part 2 of 3)
2023-01-26 The Heresy of Ethno-Phyletism
2023-01-26 Celebrating Basant Amid A Shrinking Footprint
2023-01-25 The Last World Emperor: Christianity's Other Messiah
2023-01-25 Frank Pavone has been Accused of Sexual Misconduct
2023-01-25 Good Mental Health is Consistent with a Healthy Faith
2023-01-25 The Difference Between Liberals and Progressives
2023-01-24 Examining the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy
2023-01-24 A New Iteration of Our Present World (Part 1 of 3)
2023-01-24 7 Predictions for the North American Church
2023-01-24 Pro-Life Matters (for everyone)
2023-01-24 God’s Gorilla
2023-01-24 DeSantis And The Teaching Of History
2023-01-24 Meditating on the Incarnation
2023-01-24 Why Abortion Divides American Protestants
2023-01-23 Go Below the Surface of Major Eastern Religions,
2023-01-23 THEOSEMANTICS: 18 Volumes of Theological Elasticity
2023-01-23 Happy Trails to Whom?
2023-01-23 Not Living Up to Values Does Not Mean the Values Are Lies
2023-01-23 Most Debates Will Not Produce Faith
2023-01-23 On Life After Death & Connecting with God in the Fullness of Love
2023-01-22 The Anthony Sanchez Story: Prison Conversations
2023-01-22 Imagining Christian Unity
2023-01-21 Announcing Preaching Survey: Ministry, Preaching, and Social Issues
2023-01-20 Thoughts and Prayers No Longer Cut It
2023-01-20 When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 3 of 3)
2023-01-20 Revenge vs. Justice
2023-01-20 DISCUSSION: Weird Coincidences
2023-01-19 BONNIE KRISTIAN and Our Crisis of Knowing Truth (podcast)
2023-01-19 When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 2 of 3)
2023-01-19 On Revenge
2023-01-19 Nonviolent Activism, Stress and a Major Victory in Oklahoma: On Attorney General Gentner Drummond's Motion to Delay Executions
2023-01-19 The Popular Ideas that Make Long-Term Love a Luxury Good
2023-01-18 Republicans Are Using The Debt Ceiling To Promote Evil Policies
2023-01-18 When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 1 of 3)
2023-01-18 Reserve
2023-01-18 Spiritual status quo, or the Bible in a box
2023-01-17 GUEST POST: Home Improvement by Lito Bujanda-Moore
2023-01-17 Pell Contra Synodality: The Last Written Words of George Cardinal Pell
2023-01-17 A Litmus Test--Was the Female Vote Coerced?
2023-01-17 COVID's Impact on American Religion
2023-01-17 The God of Jordan Peterson
2023-01-16 The Latin Right on The Catholic Current: What is the Common Good?
2023-01-16 Amy Grant vs. the Temple of Thieves
2023-01-16 We Stand with (the Worst of) Israel
2023-01-16 The Hope of Scott Eizember
2023-01-16 A Musing on the Evangélicos of the Brazilian Insurrection
2023-01-16 The Non-Denominational Denomination
2023-01-16 Martin Luther King Jr.’s Interfaith Witness
2023-01-16 Can't we all just get along? The problem with pursuing Truth! Worldviews #2
2023-01-15 Emmanuel Littlejohn: To Be Executed in November for Killing Nobody
2023-01-15 Scattered Postmortem Thoughts: On the Execution of Scott Eizember
2023-01-14 Abortion, "Where do you stand now, Julie?"
2023-01-13 Legal Lynchings
2023-01-13 Catholics: Keep Your Opinions to Yourselves and Out of the Social Order
2023-01-13 Against "Caesarism"
2023-01-13 DISCUSSION: Open Topics
2023-01-13 The Threat Of Mass Extinction Is Real
2023-01-13 The Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 3 of 3)
2023-01-12 From Hard Right to Left; From Hate to Love
2023-01-12 Thoughts Before the Chamber: On The Execution of Scott Eizember
2023-01-12 The Invasion of Academia into the Public Square
2023-01-11 The Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 2 of 3)
2023-01-11 Secularist End Times Despair
2023-01-11 Teleport Tourism #1: Cruising the Niger Delta
2023-01-10 A no-nonsense method to kickstart your New Year
2023-01-10 The Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 1 of 3)
2023-01-10 Pope Benedict XVI on Luther & "Sola Fide"
2023-01-09 The Book of Romans Megadecibel Tour
2023-01-09 Benedict XVI Tribute: Wisdom from “God’s Rottweiler”
2023-01-09 John 9 Revisited: No Shame, No Blame
2023-01-09 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
2023-01-09 Personalism Not Individualism Nor Collectivism
2023-01-09 #Praying for Damar Hamlin
2023-01-08 The Pro-Life Mayberry Myth
2023-01-08 The Runit Dome
2023-01-07 TLR Asks: As a Catholic, Should I Vote Republican?
2023-01-06 New Paper: Dignitatis Humanae: Navigating the Legacy of Vatican II
2023-01-06 A Letter from Bishop Zurek Reveals More on Baby Choice and Pavone
2023-01-06 Breaking With the Way Things Are (Part 3 of 3)
2023-01-06 Why the Wise Men Are Called "Kings" & Appear with the Shepherds
2023-01-06 DISCUSS: New Year's Resolutions
2023-01-05 Breaking With the Way Things Are (Part 2 of 3)
2023-01-05 Christianity and Matter
2023-01-04 The Truth Fairy
2023-01-04 It’s Good Enough for Me
2023-01-04 Who is my Neighbor? … Seriously?
2023-01-04 Breaking With the Way Things Are (Part 1 of 3)
2023-01-04 The Public Theology of Luis Oviedo
2023-01-04 Mini-Church
2023-01-04 The Funeral Of Benedict XVI And The End Of An Era
2023-01-03 The Outlook for 2024
2023-01-03 Trump's Support of the LGBTQ Agenda
2023-01-03 Lessons from Les Misérables On Faith, Reason, and Love
2023-01-02 Open Letter to Somali Moms: Run, Run as Fast as You Can
2023-01-02 Not at All Costs, the Dangers of Religious Fundamentalism/Nationalism
2023-01-02 Hamann's "London Writings" Now on Kindle
2023-01-02 Your Predictions for 2024
2023-01-02 Assemble: A Sigil for 2023
2023-01-01 A Review of Year 2022 From the Muslim Perspective
2023-01-01 After These Things Do the Gentiles Seek

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