Christ Without the Church?
Anne Rice has been much in the news because of her announcement that she is leaving Christianity. No more church for her, she says. Not that she is abandoning Christ—just the institutional church. “I refuse to be anti-gay,” she says. “I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to […]
“The First Biggest Threat”
At a scholarly conference last week we were discussing some important contributions to the field of ethics and Paul Ramsey’s work figured...
Worldly Holiness, Holy Worldliness
I want to be a worldly Christian. In the Christian community in which I was raised, saying that would have gotten me voted off...
The President as a Nursing King?
I will also be blogging, every few weeks, at a stimulating new site, “Faith and Leadership,” sponsored by Duke University Divinity School. ...
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth #1: Brain – mind distinction, Generalized principles
The classic Buckminster Fuller book 'Spaceship Handbook' was originally published in 1968, but insights and wisdom are far more important and critical than they...
The “Earth” in “Earth Day”
Well, Earth Day 2012 has come and gone. I did not take part in any events specifically focused on Earth Day concerns—although I did...
The Devil in Haiti
The commentators are still letting Pat Robertson have it over his suggestion that somehow Haiti had the destruction coming because of that...
Books I’m Reading
Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
David W. Hall (ed.), The Practice of Confessional Subscription
Paul Cantor, The Invisible Hand in...
MY “Bible Prophecy” (and Violin-playing) Past
The recent publicity given to a failed prophecy about the Rapture brought up some memories for me about my own brief involvement in a...
Our Heavenly “Home”
His father had died recently, and when I saw him I expressed my sympathy at his loss. “Thanks,” he said. “But actually...
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