
“What the….?”
“You sure as hell can’t talk about hell unless you use the word hell.” Thus saith Bart Simpson (or something like it) in the car,

“You sure as hell can’t talk about hell unless you use the word hell.” Thus saith Bart Simpson (or something like it) in the car,
I teach broad surveys of religious history, so I have to pay a lot of attention to the frame and flow of the narrative. Unless
Note: this blog is an excerpt of a sermon that I recently preached at my alma mater, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY as part of

I’m something of a Tom Wright enthusiast. As someone who is convinced that Christian scholars across the disciplines should be responsible and informed biblical interpreters,
Ewwwh—that’s just gross! It is wrong on so many levels. I often hear people, Christians actually, making visceral comments like this about complex ethical issues.

As women’s history month wraps up, I thought I’d feature some books that have made an imprint on me in the past year or two

I admit there’s something romantic about wood stoves and typewriters and horse-drawn carriages and other technologies of the past. For about ten minutes. Then, get
Our lindens are just about the tallest trees in town, I swear. And there he was, high up top, singing his heart out, that

Today is one of those lovely spring days you get when it seems as though life is simply bursting forth exuberantly all around. Birds are