Turning points
Changes of mind aren’t superficial or easy things. Mine have usually come as forced exits from the comfort of myself to somewhere more painful.
What to say about hell: A symposium
Hell is talked about cautiously, if at all, in mainline churches....
Student teachers: Reading Augustine with Muslims
The public university at which I teach has an ethnically and religiously diverse student body....
'Allah is my Lord and yours' Talking with Ahmadinejad: Talking with Ahmadinejad
Yes, the letter written by President Ahmadinejad of Iran to President Bush last spring is a political document, and is no doubt duplicitous, multilayered and deliberately deceptive. Yet the letter, framed as an address by one believer in God to another, received little sensible comment in the American media. Suppose the appeal to Bush to take his Christianity seriously is at least in part genuine. Can we American Christians hear this appeal?