A confession: I’ve never taken to the term “progressive” Christianity. A bit too highhanded and dismissive for my tastes, even if I agree with the need to move beyond certain […]
Continue ReadingWhen my son was 5 or so, we were watching TV and a commercial came on giving aid to starving children in Africa. I think it was the first time […]
Continue ReadingIn the Bible scholars often talk of two kinds of law: apodictic and casuistic. These are part of a collection of fancy words that we use as a secret code […]
Continue ReadingA God whose existence or nonexistence you can argue is a thing beside others within the universe of existing things. . . . It is regrettable that scientists believe that […]
Continue ReadingAn Excerpt from Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps us From Loving Like Jesus If we want to really get to the bottom of that phrase, “speaking […]
Continue ReadingI think we should stop using “You just pick and choose what you apply from the Bible” as an insult. Of course we do. Anyone who doesn’t follow the 613 […]
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