In this blog post last weekend, I introduced you briefly to a new book about the murder of a journalist in India and about India's increasingly autocratic, self-certain and frightening government. I ...

Berkeley, Calif. -- I'm here to celebrate my birthday with my oldest sister, who lives here, and my youngest sister, who lives in Chicagoland. My third sister, a Cape Cod resident, couldn't make the ...

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 ...

When I served on a committee that helped to oversee the theological education of Presbyterian seminary students in my area, we would require those students to write a new "statement of faith" each ...

Christian seminaries have had a difficult time in the last several decades, as participation in institutional religion in the ...

If, like many Americans today, you are feeling distress and angst about the moral quality of our elected leadership, perhaps ...

When I was in Berkeley, Calif., recently to celebrate my birthday with two of my three sisters (one couldn't be there, though she alleged she wanted to be), I attended worship at St. John's ...

A few weeks ago here on the blog, I wrote about the difference between "private religion" and more communal approaches to being part of a faith tradition. I invited readers to respond with their ...

As we move to the end of a remarkable year that has been challenging in countless of ways, I've been thinking about the big picture. You know, an eternal view. A cosmic sense of things. It's been one ...