Who is God? Can You Trust Him?
Among other things, staking the credibility of Christian faith on the first three chapters of Genesis ignores the God of Exodus, who uses creation in service of liberation.
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Why Is the Economy Stuck?… Market Theology for Nonbelievers
Our current stuckness isn’t a matter of political malpractice or corruption. It’s a failure of the imagination on a grand scale.
Read MoreAmericans Are Overtreated to Death
Real hope isn’t that the therapeutic cavalry will coming riding over the hill at the last moment.
Read MoreThe Oil Spill and “Real Deathliness”
Every time you turn on your gas-guzzling Suburban Assault Vehicle, a baby pelican dies.
Read MorePlaces of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church
When it comes to subtle racism and able-ism in church communities, “even very well-meaning dominant groups are oblivious to their own power.”
Read MoreMike Huckabee on the Soldiers’ Sacrifice
Folk theology was a highly underrated support for America’s entry into Iraq.
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Can Atheists Simply Ignore Theology?
The other day, Terry Sanderson—president of the United Kingdom’s National Secular Society—published a short, scathing indictment of theology in The Guardian, a piece titled “
Read MoreAtheists in the Pulpit?
If ministers can’t even believe what they preach, how can anyone else have faith?
Read MoreUgandan Landslide a Message from God?
The causes of disasters are natural, not supernatural.
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Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles
Sara Miles was a journalist and a chef who wandered into a San Francisco church one Sunday, got religion, and stayed to start a food pantry that now feeds 600 families a week. We talked to her recently about her newest book, Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead.
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