April 20, 2011 In Pursuit of Biblical Trivia For those with a love of the triviial, the small, the tiny and the diminuative as opposed to the superlative and the overblown, you…
April 8, 2011 Movie Review: Ray Ray Charles: America’s Mythic Hero The Taylor Hackford movie, Ray, casts the singer and song writer as an icon of American civil religion. I…
April 8, 2011 Tax Collectors and Sinners The Tax Collectors Are Coming The IRS has now unleashed a group of debt collection agencies to go after citizens it believes owe back…
March 29, 2011 Remembering Dietrich Bonheoffer State of Emergency: Some Thoughts For Holy Week April 9 is the anniversary of the death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. A German pastor and theologian,…
March 27, 2011 Life is a Terrible Thing to Waste Where is the “right to life” movement when we need it? Recent research shows that the average American is spending more than eight hours…
March 25, 2011 Classics of Progressive Christianity Must reads for progressive Christians Harry Emerson Fosdick: The Idea of God Paul Tillich: Escape From God
March 16, 2011 God and the Tsunami Given the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, where is God? Some, including for example, Pat Robertson, have already suggested that this is yet…
March 16, 2011 Truer Words about the Tsunami “People have acquired a desire for technology that surpasses human comprehension. Yet the bill that has come due for that desire is all too…
March 5, 2011 International piracy ought to … International piracy ought to be dealt with by an international naval force like the coast guard.
February 18, 2011 Blogging Live From the Middle East During the week of February 19th I’ll be reporting from the Middle East where a group of us are meeting with peacemakers, both Jewish…
