In science, and in life, there is an artful balance between being cautious and adventurous; to find the balance takes experimentation, tolerance for mistakes, and humility, says Marcelo Gleiser.
The church has tended to assign a utopian character to the Sermon on the Mount so that it came to be viewed as appropriate only for the small minority who take Christian life extremely seriously. How did the first church understand these teachings?
I reread Luke s account of Zacchaeus Like many Christians, I knew the story from Sunday school -- the wee little man who climbed a tree to see Jesus
As I continue to do the rounds of podcasts and interviews for my new book, Surviving Religion 101, the same question keeps getting asked: What can parents (and churches) do to help better prepare their kids for the intellectual challenges of college? In a prior post, I mentioned this issue and offered one solution to […]
I turned the corner of the dairy aisle and there he stood. With his work shirt un-tucked, skewed ponytail strung down his back and shoulders slouched over the milk cases, his body language screamed, “Don’t mess with me.” Everything in me wanted to avoid him as well. I peeked at his nametag, “Hey, Mike, they […]
Just about two years ago, I began the process of creating The New Theology School. Since then, we've grown to over thirty doctoral students and
Genetic analysis could revolutionize the study of medieval books.
One theologian says that Jesus didn't believe this doctrine, and we shouldn't either.
A Detroit man's awful commute epitomizes America's broken policies.
At the heart of the gospel of Jesus is the kingdom of God. This one phrase sums up the entire ministry of Jesus and his whole life’s work.
Let’s be honest, most sermons today are terrible. They are boring. They ramble. They sound like bad imitations of high school book reports.
On Sunday, I will be preaching from Romans 6, a passage that has proven very meaningful to me, as I've tried to understand the bapt...
What do we say about the ghastly parts of the Bible?
If you had been there you would have seen, "A Day in the Life of a Female Pastor" and experienced, "A Day in the Life of a Female Pastor's Husband".
In the coming weeks, we’ll feature guest posts by well-known writers, teachers, and thinkers who have been influenced by Walter Brueggemann’s work. We’re starting off in fine styl…
The following is my Good Friday sermon for St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Virginia, a town across the river from Washington, D.C., the seat of
On Sunday, I will be preaching from Romans 6, a passage that has proven very meaningful to me, as I've tried to understand the bapt...
What do we say about the ghastly parts of the Bible?
If you had been there you would have seen, "A Day in the Life of a Female Pastor" and experienced, "A Day in the Life of a Female Pastor's Husband".
In the coming weeks, we’ll feature guest posts by well-known writers, teachers, and thinkers who have been influenced by Walter Brueggemann’s work. We’re starting off in fine styl…
The following is my Good Friday sermon for St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Virginia, a town across the river from Washington, D.C., the seat of
"Give me a child at the age of eight and let me do that exercise, and that child is changed forever..."
Gratitude is dull because we always give thanks for the same things. For instance, going around the circle at Thanksgiving dinner, my various family circles always say: family, friends, health, home, a job, nature… Every November, people in my Facebook feed list things they are thankful for every day of the month. Again, like clockwork: family, friends, health, home, a job, […]
Today we are going to be exploring the third of a five part sermon series for the month of January--a series we've entitled Foundatio...
Turns out that elephants need their fathers too. When a wildlife refuge had to relocate their overgrowing elephant population, they had to leave the father elephants there due to size & weight restrictions. What happened to the behavior of the elephants w/o the males proves the importance of dad.
Templates & Design Elements For The Church
