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 ...

If, like many Americans today, you are feeling distress and angst about the moral quality of our elected leadership, perhaps you need a model from the recent past to remind you that the United States ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many ways to count the costs associated with the various sexual abuse scandals that have happened over time within institutional religion. Perhaps the most important way is somehow to take ...

As I've done on a few Christmases here on the blog, I'm resurrecting a Christmas story that I wrote for the now-defunct Sunday magazine of The Kansas City Star in 1982. It draws on the characters in a ...

One of the most dangerous aspects of religion is the willingness of some of its adherents to imagine that they can grasp the fullness of God and understand how, where, when and why God acts in human ...

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 ...