Endangered Speeches: Why It Matters (For All of Us) That Conservative Seminaries Are Firing Professors Over Theology
Seriously, God can’t handle a little honest questioning?
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Freezing Our Way to a Fiery Hell?
Psalms of lament are being sent heavenward this winter. Like a kid, I’m hoping for…
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Fired GTS Professors Go Back to Work, For Now
When a seminary is in the news, two truisms apply: one, it is often bad…
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The Religious Implications of Nudity
Embodiment is a theological issue of some currency. Sometimes it is treated as if it were a women’s issue, but we all share this—at times frightening—humanity. We only want those we trust most intimately to see us naked. To touch us in certain places.
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Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards
Dawkins points out in The God Delusion that many clergy are closet atheists. If they come out of the cupboard, they lose a career that they have spent many years and many thousands of dollars to attain. Isn’t it just easier to pretend? Considering that most career options to defrocked clergy (mainly unemployment) are hardly palatable, who can blame them? Statistics from Denmark and Sweden reveal what might never be politically correct among the United Saints of America—practical atheism abounds among churchgoing Christians and clergy.
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Penn Jillette’s Signs You May Already Be an Atheist
Everyone is an expert when it comes to religion. Those of us in the discipline are well acquainted with the fact that religious convictions are strongly held even by those with no formal training. They can often explain why they believe what they do. At length. This is the dilemma of the religion…
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