N.T. Wright: “The personal hope for resurrection is located within the larger hope for the renewal of all creation, for God’s new heavens and new earth. Take away the bodily resurrection, however, and what are

I was listening to an interview with Nancy Patricia Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives. I think she is accurate in saying ‘my colleagues in the Republican Party do not

Now scientists accept that Newtonian mechanics works for physical processes on a certain ‘local’ scale, but its scope is not boundless. On a very large scale, it is relativity physics that we must use, not

I was not able to enter empathetically into the spontaneity and boundary-shattering milieu of the early church, having been raised in a rationalistic, scholastic religion. I was circumscribed by deadly fears of heresy and dogmatically

I am reading Bart Ehrman book, How Jesus Became God, pretty similar material to various Marcus Borg books I have read, like ‘Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary.’ They both

To Have and Have Not (Hemingway, Ernest) – Your Highlight on page 136 | Location 2360-2362 | Added on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 8:40:04 PM The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his

Reinventing Liberal Christianity (Hobson, Theo) – Your Highlight on page 272 | Location 4844-4848 | Added on Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:22:38 PM Instead, the religious Right was allowed to dominate the discussion — in

If we move beyond literary and form-critical distinctions, we may say that theologically Job moves to a “second naivete,” in which he denies nothing, but in the acknowledgement of his trouble, he continues in a

Historians will spend the next century analyzing how a country with such allegedly grand democratic traditions was, so swiftly and so easily, brought to the brink of fascism. But one needn’t stretch too far to

“I suggest, in short, that the return of YHWH to Zion, and the Temple-theology which it brings into focus, are the deepest keys and clues to gospel christology. Forget the pseudo-orthodox attempts to make Jesus