What's usually called the "theodicy" question asks why there is suffering and evil in the world if God is both good and ...

In this time of rising Christian Nationalism, we Americans need examples of people who can help followers of any and all ...

A month or so ago, in this blog post, I raised questions about the essential purpose(s) of religion and shared some possible answers. But it's a question that doesn't easily go away. In fact, in some ...

Some years ago, I began a strange and wobbly effort to write a book I tentatively called The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jesus Christ. It was, I thought, a catchy title, though not as arresting as ...

Christian seminaries have had a difficult time in the last several decades, as participation in institutional religion in the ...

I began a strange and wobbly effort to write a book I tentatively called The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jesus Christ. It ...

As I've done on a few Christmases here on the blog, I'm resurrecting a Christmas story that I wrote for the now-defunct Sunday magazine of The Kansas City Star in 1982. It draws on the characters in a ...

One of the most dangerous aspects of religion is the willingness of some of its adherents to imagine that they can grasp the fullness of God and understand how, where, when and why God acts in human ...