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One of the great frustrations of my academic career, now spanning four decades, has been the number of “guardian angel theories” that I have encountered.   Opposing and undoing them is very hard work, not because the logic and conceptual work are difficult...

There’s something entrancing about the idea of a Jesus that isn’t neat, that isn’t tidy, and who happily goes about shattering our idols and breaking our conceptions of both the world and of The Man of Nazareth Himself.
When Peter Enns speaks of letting go of our certainty in his book The Sin of Certainty so that we can achieve “a more profound kind of knowing that only faith can provide,” it resonates with me deeply. God doesn’t want perfect belief, free from messiness...

When people throughout the world experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated shutdowns, the well-known expression “a family that eats together, stays together” was flipped for many families. The family that stayed together, ate together was...

Russell M. Nelson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been chosen to receive the Ghandi-King-Mandela Peace Prize.
According to Morehouse College who is presenting the award, “The honor is awarded “to a person who promotes peace and positive social transformation through nonviolent means.”  The board selected him “for his global efforts in ‘abandoning attitudes and...