Walter Brueggemann
Failing America’s Faithful
There are now scores of books dealing with the right-wing takeover of the churc...
Wired to believe
The current conversation concerning science and religion is urgent, but it is neither obvious nor easy....
Blogging toward Sunday (Acts 1:1-11; Luke 24:44-53)
In this series, authors offer reflections on the Sunday lectionary texts.
...Blogging toward Sunday (Acts 16:9-15)
In this series, authors offer reflections on the Sunday lectionary texts.
...Class warfare: AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service--and How It Hurts Our Country, by Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer
Recently Senator John Kerry suffered yet another self-inflicted wound with a clumsy joke....
Blogging toward Sunday (Acts 11:1-18)
In this series, authors offer reflections on the Sunday lectionary texts. Feel free to post a comment.
...Blogging toward Sunday (Acts 9:36-43)
In this new series, authors offer reflections on the Sunday lectionary texts. Feel free to join the discussion by adding your thoughts.
...Blogging toward Sunday
In this new series, authors offer reflections on the Sunday lectionary texts. Feel free to join the discussion by adding your thoughts.
...Brueggemann sermon starter
Editor’s note: In a new Theolog endeavor we’ve asked Walter Brueggemann to share some talking points on the Sunday lectionary for the next six weeks....
Alien witness: How God's people challenge empire
For complex historical and religious reasons,Americans have found it easy to view the U.S. as the “new Israel,” the carrier of God’s mandates in the world....
Ultimate victory
Jon Levenson has established himself as the foremost theological interpreter of the Hebrew Bib...
Religion and rights
John Witte has written a book that is profoundly in touch with the intractable issues in U.S....
Take and read
With a clever convergence of biblical texts, ancient Near Eastern literature, archaeology, and fictive imaginat...
Counterscript: Living with the elusive God
I have been thinking about the ways in which the Bible is a critical alternative to the enmeshments in which we find ourselves in the church and in society....
A disaster of 'biblical' proportions? Four biblical themes to ponder: Four biblical themes to ponder
Commentators in the media have often invoked the term biblical to describe the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, which has gone beyond our imagination and our explanatory categories. The term has not been used with any precision—it seems to mean simply vast or awe-inspiring.What would it mean to view the catastrophe in genuinely biblical terms? Four biblical themes inform my own pondering.
Holy intrusion: The power of dreams in the Bible
We children of the Enlightenment do not regularly linger over such elusive experiences as dreams....
Take and read
This is a collection of Barton’s shrewd, discerning essays on such matters as “natural law” and prophetic ethics....