Blog Honour and Shame Like parents and their children, it seems inappropriate for a minister to have favourite parishioners. But—appropriate or not, fair or…Thomas GoodhartJuly 9, 2015
Blog Why Christian? This fall I’m speaking at a conference called Why Christian? Christian blogger/author Rachel Held Evans and Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber…Jes KastJuly 8, 2015
Blog The Theology of Pete Docter A couple of years ago at the Fuller Seminary conference “Preaching in a Visual Age,” I had the great opportunity…Scott HoezeeJuly 7, 2015
Blog Heroes By Chad Pierce More scholarly and eloquent pieces have been written on the racial divide that has come to a…Chad PierceJuly 6, 2015
Blog Legacy #6, Silent Tea Rings By Helen Luhrs When my mom died this winter, I realized the generation of my parents was gone. What I…Helen LuhrsJuly 5, 2015
Blog One Cheer for Civil Religion I’ve had a long adversarial relationship with American civil religion. It began with all those invocations I heard as a…James BrattJuly 3, 2015
Blog Agents of Reconciliation (Or the Grace in Our Depravity) As a theologian I tend to focus on more contemporary thinkers. Not that I've ignored the others—I enjoyed my Patristic and…Jason LiefJuly 3, 2015
Blog Freedom and Its Contradictions Fourth of July festivities, where I live, have already begun. The shocking and randomly timed booms of consumer fireworks remind…Theresa LatiniJuly 2, 2015
Blog Two Weeks It’s been two weeks now since the massacre at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. church. Two weeks of learning just how apt…Jennifer L. HolbergJuly 1, 2015
Blog Religion, Politics, and the Supreme Court By Allison Vander Broek Summer’s in full swing here in Boston. For me, that’s meant hitting the ground running on…Allison Vander BroekJune 30, 2015