A wonderful little book has just been published. The title is not likely to propel it onto the best-seller lists: Faith in the World: Mark Gibbs and Vesper Society, Being God’s Lively People, co-authored by Nelvin Vos, Daniel Pryfogle, and Melvin George, and published as a Vesper Society Imprint. Doing the book was a labor […]
South Africa’s Uniting Reformed Church has been debating same-sex issues, and the black theologian Allan Boesak has spoken strongly in favor of granting full rights in the church to persons who are active in same-sex relationships. Indeed, Boesak is so committed on this issue that when the church’s synod recently voted against the document he had drafted...
This piece originally appeared in The Christian Century.
I collect expressions of anti-intellectualism. I even consider myself to be a connoisseur of the sorts of things that fall within this genre. But this is no mere hobby. I was raised in a spiritual environment in which the intellectual life was regarded with suspicion, even with overt...
This piece originally appeared at purposedriven.com
At a recent gathering of theological educators, I heard a series of three talks on “Money, Sex and Power.” All three presentations were excellent, but it struck me: money is the topic we pay the least attention to in our seminary programs. In the evangelical world where I spend most...
My friend Robert Millet wrote an interesting book two years ago, with the title What Happened to the Cross? Bob is a distinguished Mormon theologian who is extensively involved in interreligious dialogue (including the evangelical-Mormon dialogue which he and I co-chair). This book, published by the Deseret Book Company, is addressed primarily to a Latter Day Saints...
In my recent Newsweek column, I described the sadness that hit me on Election Day morning when I saw angry groups gesturing angrily to each other as they waved signs for and against the California referendum on same-sex marriage. Since that column appeared, I have seen hundreds of responses to my plea for a civil discussion of...
I will also be blogging, every few weeks, at a stimulating new site, “Faith and Leadership,” sponsored by Duke University Divinity School. It has a lot of excellent materials. Do read it regularly!
http://www.faithandleadership.com
My first blog posting for that site is as follows:
Here is a biblical text that is worth...
"You keep talking about what the Apostle Paul writes about homosexuality. What did Paul know about same-sex relations? We've learned so much since New Testament times about the complexities of sexuality!"
Good point. And I acknowledged the fact to the person who raised it as an objection to my views. I don't believe that everything we...
A while back our town’s weekly newspaper ran a story about a speech delivered by a local business leader to our Chamber of Commerce. I was so offended by the account of his speech that I fired off a letter to the editor. The line that most upset me was the business leader’s comment that he finds...
I get the impression that the folks over at the reformata.org blog do not like my
views. Here’s a hint: they refer to me as the president of “Fuller Theological Cesspool Seminary,” and they link me with other “spiritually spineless men” like Rick Warren and Billy Graham. At least they put me in some...
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