We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions..

Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More ….

We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry.….

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and pa….

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God..

If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings..

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to le….

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall.

Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarna….

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day..

That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream..

I'm so grateful for Living the Questions. These progressive voices offer less rigid and more expansive approaches to Christian faith, and make room f….

One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of God that transports us and that takes us to a new dept….

In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render ourselves vulnerable to the "favors o….

So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarl….

The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Ins….

Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Chris….

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?.

You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on either side..

The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help….

Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the ….