“Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.” […]
The Value and Limits of Patriotism
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Campus minister at United Campus Ministry at MSU Billings and part time religion and philosophy instructor at MSU Billings.
Adoption By Any Other Name
So I was in the foster care system from age 5 to 11. In that period I was adopted twice and had 3 last names. My second and last adoption was by […]
What I Believe About Jesus and Easter
Let me start off by suggesting that if someone tells you, that you “must believe” this or that to belong to their religious group, that might be a sign of a problem. […]
A Progressive Christian Case for Original Sin
One of the common claims in many progressive Christian circles is that original sin is an idea that can be readily dismissed. For many, in fact we are morally obligated to set […]
A forgotten response to the problem of evil
Edgar Brightman 1919-1953 John Dewey asks the question; “Is the universe friendly to man?” There any number of ways of approaching the question. We could begin by asking whether our moral strivings, […]
Why Not Everyone Should be Christian : An Alternative Vision of Evangelism.
This could be taken as a remarkable statement to make as a Christian pastor. But I don’t wish for a world where everyone converted to Christianity. This isn’t because I don’t want […]
Homegrown Liberal Protestant
The picture is from Christmas 1977. I’m in the back row, second from the left under the candles. It’s a program of a Lutheran congregation in Billings MT, a predecessor to the […]
The Progressive Case for Religious Institutions
The case that I would like to make is not meant for those who are not religious. That is a separate argument that I think could be made. It would involve the […]
God and Aspergers
I’m being more autobiographical than I usually am when writing a piece like this. My interest in Aspergers and Autism developed in seminary when a young boy in the congregation, I was […]
In Defense of Accommodationism
The term accomodationism is usually applied to the view that there is no necessary conflict between evolution and religion. Now the term is usually employed by those who are in opposition to […]
Queering our Reading of the Bible
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