William H. Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas in a conversation piece on the Dangers of Pastoral Care do not simply offer some warnings about the limits of pastoral care, they appear to call the whole enterprise […]
Freeing Jesus: A Review
Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and PresenceDiana Butler Bass In Freeing Jesus, Diana Butler Bass discusses six ways of approaching Jesus, six ways that Christians have spoken […]
Charles Taylor on The History of American Secularism
Philosopher Charles Taylor:
Socialism, the Death of America
“Socialism and the redistribution of wealth is a fundamentally wrong-thinking, anti-freedom, anti-American idea. Nowhere in history has it worked. It destroys nations. Why do our leaders keep moving us in this direction? […]
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 […]
“Clothe Yourself in Righteousness”…but Maybe Not Clothes.
Over the last week, I have been enjoying the Quaker-inspired songs of Jon Watts. He is a mixture of rap and folk. In many ways, it is more sermon than anything else. […]
