Well, the story about religious disagreements about same-sex marriage, published in last Friday’s Los Angeles Times, got picked up by many other papers. I am getting quite a bit of feedback, much of it negative, about my quoting the Bible to defend my dissent from the California’s recent decision to lift the ban on such […]
I pulled an old novel off my shelf this morning, paging through it for nostalgic purposes. In my college days I discovered the writings of the humorist-novelist Peter De Vries, a renegade Dutch Calvinist. The novel I scanned today, looking for pages I had marked in my teenage years, is The Mackerel Plaza, about a person raised,...
I came across a piece recently where an American literature scholar went public with the admission that he hasn’t actually read Moby Dick. That kind of thing seems to be happening more frequently these days. A person who is an expert in some area is asked for their “most influential” list and they include a confession...
A couple of decades ago, as a previous national election year approached, a magazine asked several of us to describe the kind of person who should be elected as president of the United States. We were forbidden to use any names, or to say anything that would point to one of the people who would likely be...
During a conversation with a rabbi friend, things got a bit tense. He had been reading a book that I had written, in which I discussed my friendship
with another rabbi, a mutual friend of ours, who was a widely respected elder statesman in the Jewish community. This older rabbi was a great...
We released the “Evangelical Manifesto” yesterday at the National Press Club—see http://www.anevangelicalmanifesto.com/. I joined with the other drafters in expressing worries about the way in which the “evangelical” label has gotten too closely associated in recent years with a political activism. I do feel strongly about that, and I am an enthusiastic supporter of the “Manifesto”...
An issue of Newsweek has an interesting cover story on divorce. The theme is the radical shift in attitudes toward divorce in a matter of only a few decades. I resonate with that. Having seen it up close now so many times, I have gotten used to divorce as a fact of contemporary life. But I have...
I have been invited by The New York Times to write for their blog about the Pope’s visit to the United States. You can check these postings out at: http://thepope.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/on-faith-and-human-rights/
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Dr. Mouw, thanks for your nuanced reflections on Pope Benedict’s visit to the U.S. Once again, you have expressed...
Last Wednesday evening (April 9), some 150 people gathered in Fuller Seminary’s Travis Auditorium to sing old-time hymns. Young and old alike showed much enthusiasm in singing “Rescue the Perishing,” “Just As I Am,” “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior,” and other hymns that have shaped both the worshiping life and the personal piety of many generations...
The Missouri Synod Lutherans are arguing with each other about “traditional” versus “seeker-sensitive” styles of being church. And the debate has spilled over into the pages of the Wall Street Journal. In its March 28 issue, the WSJ published an op-ed piece by Mollie Zeigler Hemingway, a former member of the denomination’s Board for Communication Services, criticizing...
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