Dear Rowan,
I am delighted that you have agreed to meet with the House
of Bishops of the American Episcopal Church in September, even
if you appear …
In recent decades the primary battles that have been fought
in the Christian Church have not been about theology, but about
issues of human sexuality. Huge debates polarize …
The idea that one can raise a deceased person to
life entered the biblical story in two narratives from the
Elijah-Elisha cycle of stories. It is then picked …
In this series we first sought to identify the places in the
Bible where miracles seem to appear in groups. There are only
three: The Moses-Joshua cycle of …
In fundamentalist religion there are a number of strange
claims made that arise primarily out of a lack of biblical
knowledge. One of them is the claim that …
I return this week to our running series on the Five
Fundamentals, that supposedly irreducible set of principles that
believers were told had to be accepted as literally …
During this summer I have read Flavius Josephus’
history of the first century war fought between the Romans and
the Jews. That war began in Galilee in 66 C. …
“My name is Sam Sinnett and I am a gay
Catholic.” These words, reminiscent of the way members
introduce themselves at AA meetings, opened a luncheon at a
…
Throughout the course of my professional career I have always
been impressed by that
faith community which calls itself the United Church of Christ
or the Congregational Church. …
As our nation pauses to celebrate its birthday many things
vie for our people’s attention. There is the drain of human
life and treasure in the ill-begotten, mismanaged …