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Hi, I am Trista. I am delighted to be joining the team at Phillips Theological Seminary’s Center for Religion in Public Life. I am currently serving as the center’s interim […]
The relationship between Judaism and the New Testament has often been clouded by misinterpretation and bias. On the new episode of Committing Faith in Public, Phillips Theological Seminary President Doug […]
NOTE: In this, my final blog for Phillips Theological Seminary (I retire on January 31 after 29.5 years in theological education and 24.5 at Phillips), I’ve tried to sum up […]
With apologies to the author of Job 38:4-30 When your species talks about history, your timeline is too short. Not unimportant but truncated. You’re too focused on yourselves. I need […]
Early in my ministry, when the United Methodist Church’s arguments about the place of homosexuals among the clergy were a decade old, I recall there was a young queer person […]
As the new calendar year dawns, pundits and journalists often review the top stories of the previous year or predict which will be the big stories of the new year. […]
Historian David Hollinger argues that liberal, ecumenical, old-mainline Christianity in the U.S. prepared a sizeable part of the population to shift toward more tolerant and accepting attitudes. He credits moderate-to-liberal […]
Once again, a human-made object takes a picture of the earth from near the moon. Once again, everyone who sees the picture is reminded of how rare the earth is. […]
A Prayer by the Oklahoma Governor, 2022, speaking in front of the state Capitol, “Father, we just claim Oklahoma for you. Every square inch, we claim it for you in […]
Deception is hardly new. The serpent lied to Eve. Cain lied to God. Laban and Jacob deceived each other so badly they had to set up a cairn as a […]