Date: May 31, 2022
Statement on Robb Elementary School
Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they […]
Category: Conversations
Date: April 28, 2020
Shall We Gather at (the River) Our Churches?
By Ellen Blue In the early days of the church, when Christians were being persecuted and even martyred, there was great excitement about dying for the faith. There are stories […]
Date: March 20, 2019
What the Bible Says, or Doesn’t Say, About Homosexuality
Within Christian circles, the debate about homosexuality has been at the forefront over the past few decades. It is not that this issue was unheard of until recently, but that […]
Date: August 24, 2018
Thoughts About the Interim Presidency
Phillips Theological Seminary is in a season of transition. Not so much in the understanding of our identity as a school offering theological education dedicated to learning the way of […]
Date: June 26, 2018
Interpreting Faith in Public
A few years ago, I attended a conference of seminary presidents. At a workshop on crisis communications, we were advised to communicate with our publics regularly so that, in a […]
Date: June 18, 2018
Interpreting the Bible Against the Gospel
An Egyptian official from 4,000 years ago: Joseph’s people were such ingrates. My country took in caravans of Semites who were starving. We fed them. We gave them room to […]
Date: June 12, 2018
Deeper Repair
I nodded off in church on Sunday (okay, that’s a fiction, but go with it, please) and, immediately, I fell into a dream. In the dream, I walked into a […]
Date: June 5, 2018
Religious Interests and Legislation
I like to know where the food I eat and the legislation to which I am subject come from. Both are often too hard to trace! This blog is on […]
Date: May 29, 2018
More Fred Rogers, Please
Fred Rogers, known to generations of children and their parents, as Mister Rogers, was a Presbyterian minister. His show, begun in 1968, embodied much of old mainline Protestantism at its […]