What I want to say about the recent death of my first wife, Marcia Albright, has only a little to do with our almost-27-year ...

A lmost every religion makes statements or claims that are in harmony with some statements or claims of other faith traditions. For instance, the basic idea of what's called the Golden Rule is found ...

A s we move to a new year this weekend, I first want to back up a bit and take note that this fall we passed the 60th anniversary of the start of the hugely influential (and, in some corners, ...

It should be no surprise to anyone even faintly familiar with institutional religion that religious bodies often are engaged in some kind of internal struggle. It certainly happened some years ago to ...

Yes, of course I'm glad that a few days ago the United Methodist Church decided to change its rules to allow the ordination of otherwise-qualified LGBTQ+ people to be clergy. It should have happened ...

A lmost every religion makes statements or claims that are in harmony with some statements or claims of other faith traditions. For instance, the basic idea of what's called the Golden Rule is found ...

A remarkable new book -- one of the best I've read in a long time -- confirms something I've said more than once here on the blog and in other venues: If your theology causes you to devalue, ...

I was not a "missionary kid" when I lived for two years of my boyhood in India. My parents, after all, weren't missionaries sent by a church or a Christian missionary society. Rather, my father was ...

B ecause modern antisemitism has deep roots in Christianity's long history of anti-Judaism, the hatred of Jews is an ancient problem. But it's a calumny that is experiencing an alarming resurgence, ...

One of the stories about religion today that nearly everyone has heard has to do with the diminishment of Christianity in the U.S. It's been going on for decades, as Protestants now make up less than ...

Over the last several decades, the political climate in the U.S. has turned bitter and disastrous. A new book I'll introduce you to today can help us understand why. And although I recommend that you ...

D ebt, it turns out, seems to be as American as apple pie. For instance, this Lending Tree site tells us that Americans' total credit card unpaid balance was $1.142 trillion in the second quarter of ...