Brian McLaren God Creates Good Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from ”A New Kind of Christianity” If Genesis sets the stage for the biblical narrative, this much is unmistakably clear: God's unfolding drama is…
Brandan Robertson Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God, the renewal of the world, would happen progressively over time The question of “What is the Gospel” isn’t a hard one to answer. Jesus explicitly states it many times throughout the Gospel accounts of the New Testament. In Mark…
Barbara Brown Taylor Could it be that our favorite verses are the ones that make us feel most right? In the Christian New Testament, Jesus himself admits that he does not know everything there is to know about God. When his disciples ask him to tell them about the…
Frederick Buechner With Great Laughter by Frederick Buechner Part of the farce was that for the first time in my life that year in New York, I started going to church regularly, and what was…
Brian McLaren Not a Constitution I freely acknowledge that Plato and Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius and Einstein, Muhammad and the Buddha all say interesting and brilliant and inspiring things, and I can learn a lot from…
American Crimes and Punishment Curated by Reginald Bell Articles After False Drug Test, He was in Solitary Confinement for 120 Days by Jan Ransom Ex-Incarcerated Student: Society owes men and women in prison chance…
Marcus Borg Sometimes the Bible Is Wrong Because the awareness that the Bible is sometimes wrong has been so important in my own Christian journey and because I am convinced that this realization is important for all…
Brandan Robertson You have heard it said Now, the next question that naturally arises is this: If truth is progressive, then is it possible for something that was once considered to be true to become no longer…
Death and Grieving Curated by J. Dana Trent All of humanity has one thing in common: we die. If this is an inescapable truth--why do we spend decades mastering skills and trades that…
Barbara Brown Taylor “Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian” - from “Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others” by Barbara Brown Taylor - HarperOne One of my favorite authors, Paul Knitter, has written a book called “Without…
New York Times To Take on the Religious Right, We Need a Religious Left By Bianca Vivion Brooks in the New York Times
Marcus Borg Why be a Christian in the twenty-first century? From “Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the 21st Century” by Marcus Borg - HarperOne A portion of the Foreword by Marianne Borg: Why be…
Brian McLaren Secular Today’s guest quote is by Brian D. McLaren, from Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: “What we call the secular is actually the realm or domain…
Women in Society Curated by Rebekah Gordon Podcasts Pantsuit PoliticsThe Liturgists: Woman (Episode 40)The Liturgists: Jamie Lee Finch is a Sex WitchStuff Mom Never Told You on Apple PodcastsFaith and Feminism on Apple…
Robert P. Jones Segregation As blacks began to pour into northern cities to escape oppression in the South as part of the “great migration” in the early nineteen hundreds, the Catholic Church responded by…
Brandan Robertson God is still speaking The idea that God stopped speaking at the close of the canon is a modern notion dreamed up by the Protestant Reformers some 500 years ago. But the Catholic and…
Brian McLaren Inspiration Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: So we judge internal tension and debate as flaws or failures in the components of a constitution, but…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons “The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become” Today, we mostly think of social justice as a secular movement sometimes associated with progressive causes that are fighting the “Christian right” and other conservative groups. But many of the…
Lenny Duncan You just have to believe that this is the way things are. White supremacy doesn’t need active racists to function. It is a demonic system with a life of its own. It is radical evil. It functions with interdependent systems like militarism…
Brian McLaren When a paradigm fails For many of us, faith is our map of reality, our map of the universe. It tells us where we are, where we’ve been, where we’re going, where to turn.…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons King’s commitment to representing the God-given dignity of human life The religious conservatives’ opposition to the civil rights nature of Rev. Dr. King’s ministry also came into focus during the final years of his life, when he embraced a broader…