Oct 15, 2012 | church, images of God, lament
I’m tired of reading bad ordination papers: twelve to twenty pages of poorly-written, theologically-thin, unimaginative discourse, intended to represent a ministerial candidate’s breadth of preparedness and depth of spiritual formation but more frequently...
Aug 25, 2012 | faith, justice
“I’ve come to believe that the differences among American Christians can be boiled down to one fundamental theological difference — about hell. Specifically, do you believe that hell is a matter of the afterlife, or do you believe that hell is a...
Jul 15, 2012 | church, news
The sighting of a “We Are Penn State” bumper sticker recently started me thinking: Every sticker, paw logo, and Nittany Lion golf club cover reflects Penn State’s success in building people’s enthusiasm for branding themselves with this...
Jun 6, 2012 | church, news
“As statistics continue to reveal the Church’s numerical decline, the impulse of congregations and denominations is to resist, to fear, to fight against membership losses. For the sake of survival, we plead: ‘Don’t leave.’ I prefer to...
