Like parents and their children, it seems inappropriate for a minister to have favourite parishioners. But—appropriate or not, fair or not—parents often do, as do
This fall I’m speaking at a conference called Why Christian? Christian blogger/author Rachel Held Evans and Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber are hosting and headlining this
A couple of years ago at the Fuller Seminary conference “Preaching in a Visual Age,” I had the great opportunity to meet and chat briefly
By Chad Pierce More scholarly and eloquent pieces have been written on the racial divide that has come to a head in the last few
By Helen Luhrs When my mom died this winter, I realized the generation of my parents was gone. What I learned from them about faith
I’ve had a long adversarial relationship with American civil religion. It began with all those invocations I heard as a teenager in the mid-‘60s that
As a theologian I tend to focus on more contemporary thinkers. Not that I’ve ignored the others—I enjoyed my Patristic and Medieval theology courses the most.
Fourth of July festivities, where I live, have already begun. The shocking and randomly timed booms of consumer fireworks remind me that I’m not in
It’s been two weeks now since the massacre at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. church. Two weeks of learning just how apt the name Emanuel is for
