There is a great desire among religious people for
quick answers to complex issues. “What is the meaning of prayer?
What do you believe about life after death? Do …
For many people the title of this column represents a
silly question. The pages of the gospels are filled with stories
of supernatural happenings associated with Jesus. Most people,
…
One of the things that always surprises me is the level of anger,
often expressed in acts of overt rudeness, which seems to mark
religious people. It appears so …
A note to my readers:
Dear Friends:
Your letters come in such numbers that if I responded to each one
I would need a …
There is something fundamentally flawed about
institutional Christianity today. I see it in two distinct
places. It was clearly present when I listened to ecclesiastical
figures talk about the …
In one of its regular features The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer on PBS recently showed the pictures of 16 more American
military personnel who had recently lost their lives in …
The community of St. Peter’s Church in Morristown,
New Jersey, where my wife and I worship, gathered this week to
celebrate the life of Emily Jane Failla and to …
Recently, while on a lecture tour of England, I was the keynote
speaker at a national conference of the United Reformed Church of
England. This body, the result of …
A letter from one of my Internet readers, Max Rippeto, asked how
New Testament scholars went about the task of dating the books of
the New Testament. It was …
Dear Friends,
The English newspapers made it a front page story.
English ecclesiastical figures from the Archbishop of Canterbury
down to a bigoted pressure group called Forward …