Having watched and listened to the dear departed Carl Sagan talking about our tiny, fragile world recently, I found myself watching the ne...

It was a peculiar quote, in a peculiar interview. The quote came from atheist author and biologist Richard Dawkins, who'd talked ...

Dear Sam: A couple of years ago, I read my way through your  Letter to A Christian Nation , that bit of provocative neoatheist polemic t...

The picture of your child stuck out at me, most likely because it was supposed to.  After a recent and somewhat painful debate between a p...

It's one of the odder memes out there, but one I stumble across with some surprising frequency. Like, say, yesterday, when I bumbled...

Having steeped myself in the writings and worldviews of the first century CE for much of the last week, an odd fragment that stuck in my h...

I've never been a big proponent of bringing too much Jesus into our complex national identity.   Not that I'm shy about teaching w...

On the last day of our recent trip to San Francisco, we stayed in a humble cookie-cutter Holiday Inn Express near to the airport.  It was ...

In sermon researching and exploring this week, I found myself again digging through the online presence of the Brick Testament dude.   Thi...

One of the most common charges leveled against progressive Christians is that we're the smorgasbord faithful. We progs stand accused...

Kids, they say the darndest things. In a recent conversation with my boys about God, the fruit of my loins offered up their perspectives on ...

As part of my daily blog feedage, I make a point of reading a mix of like-thinking progressives and mystics, but also spend time perusing th...

Among the many feeds I read is the TED blog, which brims over with delicious esoterica and occasionally over-precious cutting edgeness. T...

Following on from yesterday's post, the exploration of the paradoxymoronic concept of the Christian Atheist continues. Though there is ...

As I traipse through my blog feeds, I make sure a take a little time for the folks with whom I disagree. From secular neoconservatives to f...

Whilst engaged in some highly entertaining back and forth about God and the nature of being yesterday, I found myself suddenly wondering abo...

I know plenty of atheists. Rolling in the circles I roll in, that's not much of a surprise. The Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith just prov...