To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran. To be ….

So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will al….

God’s dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth..

Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care..

'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washi….

God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can….

The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred..

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.

Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart tha….

People who think of God as a warrior may become warriors themselves, whether in a Christian crusade, a Muslim jihad, or an apocalyptically oriented m….

Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember that wh….

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings ….

I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I d….

I affirm, along with many others, that the major enduring religions of the world are all valid and legitimate. I see them as the responses to the exp….

One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is compassion a female image suggesti….

Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better..

Imagine that Christianity is about loving God..

People remember stories much better than they remember a straight list of teachings..

I let go of the notion that the Bible is a divine product. I learned that it is a human cultural product, the product of two ancient communities, bib….

The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened..

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven late….