Denominational Christianity Feels Sometimes To My Soul Like Cowslip's Warren Filled with Fat Soft Eyed Rabbits Singing the Praises Of th...

Christianity is in retreat in America, falling back and away, or so says whatever Pew study that American Jesus people are wringing thei...

The followers of the Prophet Mohammed, peace be unto him, have a problem. It's a problem that surfaces again and again, headline a...

Both of the two books that have been bopping around in the popular Jesus consciousness lately share a common characteristic.  There's ...

I'll confess I didn't watch it.  Oh, I will, eventually.  No question.  But I don't watch things when they come out anymore, a...

This weekend, my youngest son led worship. As a pastor dad, it was an interesting service for a variety of reasons, the most significan...

In reading through the last issue of Presbyterians Today, I was fascinated by a sequence of articles on Islam and Christianity.  In part, ...

Yesterday, during a lovely extended lunch with two fellow pastors, we wandered from talking shop to talking Big Picture.  It was a delicio...

In the checkout line at the supermarket yesterday, the bagger was a kid, likely a north African immigrant.   On his nametag was the name ...

Just about a month has passed since I reverently burned my old Bible .  Today, that simple action feels a bit different, particularly in t...

At the actually rather enjoyable meeting of National Capital Presbytery Tuesday night, much of the event revolved around the reflections and...

Listening to the fading echoes of Koran-burnin' hum in our cybernetic collective unconscious, I'm wondering what the takeaway is goi...

One of the things I struggle most with as a nominally progressive pastor is the whole social justice thing. I'm for it, of course. Pre...

One of the tubs that American conservatism loves to thump on a regular basis is the idea that America is a Christian nation. Or, if they...

One of the best ways to twist the knickers of an ultraconservative Christian is to use the name Allah in a way that seems to imply that the ...

Back when I was a youngling, I devoured science fiction. Some of what I used to read, like the old classic Asimov stuff, just seems dated n...

Yesterday's conference of Clergy Beyond Borders made for an interesting day. It's always a bit difficult for me, as a near-patholo...

Having mused yesterday about the peculiar goings on at the Bethel School for Supernatural Ministry, I stumbled across this agonizing articl...

As I continue to slowly digest my way through the theopoetic stylings of Jalal-a'din Rumi, I'm reminded of a strange paradox that oc...