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This is the second of two blogs to address the question: What do people of faith know that could make for a more healthy society, if we were intentional about […]
What do people of faith know that could make for a more healthy society, if we were intentional about making practical and public what we know? A few weeks ago, […]
During October and through election week, I taught a free, online course. The topic was how people of faith might foster the regeneration of democracy in the U.S. The course […]
Forty-five years ago this month, theologian and ecumenist Robert McAfee Brown gave a brilliant speech at the opening of the World Council of Churches Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. His address […]
On November 2, I am trying to pay attention primarily to my faith commitments regarding my and our time in the universe. Who am I, who are we, what am […]
At home, we recently watched the staged reprise of “Hartsfield Landing,” an episode of The West Wing, featuring most of the original cast. At the outset of the story, President […]
“In the very first question put to her in Day 2 of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Judge Amy Coney Barrett was asked to define, ‘in English,’ the meaning of […]
If you type the word “obliviate” into your search engine, the first references are to the charm in the Harry Potter books that causes an individual to forget. For example, […]
If you want to know the range of what kinds of public theology residents of the U.S. are doing, we live in a glorious time! Here are a few examples […]
The Constitution protects the freedom of religious believing. Citizens should be tolerant of other’s beliefs. The government cannot be used as a tool for heresy hunting or for burning an […]