
Heresies I Have Loved: III
While I brace for impact, I have some secret sympathies for Marcion’s claim that we should do away with the Old Testament.

While I brace for impact, I have some secret sympathies for Marcion’s claim that we should do away with the Old Testament.

Religion’s back now, hotter than ever before, I have to tell you. The National Prayer Breakfast was held on February 5, and since its beginning

“Why, O LORD, do you stand far off?” it asks, straight out of the blocks. “Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?” So

Origin stories have consequences. Whatever you believe, consciously or not, is the way things “really are” will become your stage directions. Each of us will

To this point in Scripture’s story, God speaks and God does things. But, here for the first time, God actually says what God is like.

Lent begins in darkness and asks people of faith to search and sit with it, to sit with the uncertainty and longing — and if
I like the dust and ashes and all. But I really like the ground.

Now I know about the doctor’s appointment, the scan, the meeting at work, parent-teacher conferences. Easy communication is a double-edged tool when it comes to

As I walk alongside my bother Tony in his state of serious illness and the prospect of dying too soon, I am challenged to be