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Puzzling Advice Offered by the Apostle Paul

I was invited recently to participate in a discussion at church focused on an interesting question: Why did Paul say that? This prompted some thinking about the Apostle Paul’s puzzling and sometimes controversial words of counsel to early Christian communities....

Orthodoxy and Heresy: Theology’s Odd Couple

A recent study series at church on John’s letters in the New Testament brought the reminder that they were most likely written in response to an interpretation of the gospel that came to be identified with Gnostic thought. This dualistic perspective reflected...

Why Climate Change Requires an Ethics of Urgency

Most of us seem to live somewhere between Chicken Little’s “The sky is falling!” and Rabbi Gamaliel’s counsel to “wait and see” (Acts 5:33-39) on the theological and spiritual validity of the emerging Christian movement. Some issues...

Why We Need to See Through Others’ Eyes

Parallel images of barbaric atrocities committed by extremists and of health workers risking and giving their lives in the effort to control the Ebola pandemic raise the penetrating question of who we are and who we have become as a human family. On a lesser scale,...

Which “Real World” Do You Really Want?

Count on the campaign season to provide us with plenty of fodder for reflection on our life together. Sometimes even little phrases and word choices can become windows for looking into our own houses, and for looking out those same windows to see the world outside in...