Just Do It

I’m thinking a lot about the cross lately. The obvious reason is that we are entering Holy Week. One of my best friends built a 12-foot, 350 pound cross with his father that we hang from our church rafters each Lenten season. It’s ruggedly beautiful, inspires deep contemplation and is impossible to ignore. It reminds… Continue reading Just Do It

Too Much Politics?

Lately I’ve heard rumblings about how mainline pastors are talking too much about politics. I must be reading and listening to a different set of pastors – and these days you have an overwhelming wealth of options online to choose from – but I don’t hear outright political messages. I hear messages against the cruelty… Continue reading Too Much Politics?

God and Mind

I’ve been blessed by two very smart sons, one of whom has been engaging me on philosophy of mind over the last month or so. Through these discussions, I’ve spent quite a bit of time thinking through what I really believe about consciousness. I come at it with a trio of prejudices. First, my faith… Continue reading God and Mind

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Beyond Judgement

I’m often surprised how many protests I get from my atheist friends about Christianity that I can effectively deactivate by just saying, “I’m a universalist so I don’t think that.” I write, “deactivate,” instead of, “answer,” because I don’t think many theological questions can be definitively answered with pithy responses. It takes a lifetime of… Continue reading Beyond Judgement