There are people who assume that Christianity is about the afterlife and that our chief problem in this life is that we are sinners who need to be pu….

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On….

It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time..

Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they assigned that ….

Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life..

The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition and are not part of self proclam….

Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary qualit….

Imagine that Christianity is about loving God..

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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