A new book co-authored by Dr. Qazi Rahman, a lecturer in
psychobiology at the University of East London and Dr. Glenn
Wilson, a member of the faculty of …
Religious fundamentalism is built on the assumption that
the truth of God has been captured for all time. It comes in
many forms including inerrancy for the words …
By the force of his will and personality, this man brought
biblical scholarship out of the ivy covered walls of academia
and placed it on the front pages …
I hesitated at first to write about Hurricane Katrina and the
devastation that has been visited on the city of New Orleans
and the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, …
I often wonder what Bible it is that people read in America’s
Bible Belt. I wonder what the religion is that is practiced
by the Religious Right. It …
Late last month I joined with other religious leaders,
Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish, to file an amicus curiae
brief with the Supreme Court of the United States on …
Time after time I am asked by people to describe what the
church of the future will look like. It seems to these
questioners that one who has …
Last month an anonymous member of my class at the Graduate
Theological Union in Berkeley, California, left this unsigned
question on my lectern: “How can you be so …
Several years ago, in a column about the harassment, removal and silencing of Roman Catholic scholars like Hans Kung, Leonardo Boff, Charles Curran and Edward Schillebeeckx by that …
The threat of meaninglessness and the specter of eternal anonymity are two forces that, far more than most of us realize, drive human behavior. The vast majority of …