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Jesus did die on a cross, but not to save us from our sins. He did rise from the dead, but not by walking out of an empty tomb. He did not perform miracles, but he did heal peoples’ psychological wounds inflicted by massive oppression. His story got twisted.
Palm Sunday is a festival celebrated by Christians around the world. Jesus went to Jerusalem; that much is certain. The details are less clear.
Where is all this going? What can we ultimately hope for, for both the universe as a whole and our own individual life as part of that same whole?
What Lies Ahead?
As the years moved along, this answer seemed less and less adequate in the face of undeserved suffering in the world, the epitome of which is the baby born into the world, experiences extreme pain, and dies after one day.
A Puzzle for the Christmas Season
Christmas presents us with an intersection of religious and secular stories that come from and come with a mixed bag of fact and fiction
A Puzzle for the Christmas Season
Here are some recent news items to which I have added a few facts that seem related. Have fun putting it all together, creating your own narrative about what it all might mean, if anything.
What and Why is The Church?
Fifty years ago, one prominent topic of conversation in the churches was the ecumenical movement, trying to determine what the various bodies had in common.
Is there Order to life?
It is not so much my thinking that has changed over the last fifty years, as the attitude I bring to that thinking.
What Am I To Do?
What a person does, the content of one's act depends on how one analyzes the situation, that is, the method by which one decides.
What is a Christian?
If you ask this question, the most likely answer you will get, is that a Christian is a person who accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior, this being the most likely answer both fifty years ago and also today.
The Jan 6th committee has done everything possible to show that Trump attempted to overthrow the government. They almost beg the undecided to look anew at the evidence and realize how close we came to losing our democracy and that it is still possible for that to happen.
The terms messiah and messianism have, of late, been resurrected in the political sphere. For some, Trump is the second messiah, come to liberate us from the devilish democratic cabal who eat children and worship satan, thereby creating the kingdom of god as envisioned by heartless, authoritarian Republicans.
Who was Jesus?
The question Who is Jesus? is perhaps the most complex issue in Christian theology, embracing, as it does, three interrelated sub-questions: who was he in his person, what did he do, and how does that impact us today?
What is Sin?
Answering this question is both easy and difficult. The easy part is differentiating sin against God from plain old immorality, as well as from crime against society.
Who is Man?
Fifty years ago the Christian understanding of human nature fell into two camps. The fundamentalist approach placed humanity at the apex of an unchanging universe.
Is God Alive and well?
Creation and the health and activity of God go together.
What does Creation Mean?
Even fifty years ago, whatever creation means, it does not mean that in seven days God brought the universe into being out of nothing.
What is God Like?
Almost 50 years ago I wrote a book entitled What to Believe?, subtitled The Questions of Christian Faith. Fortress Press had been looking for such a book, and so published it in 1974. Fifty years later, I thought it might be interesting to see how my thinking today has changed. Hence the title.
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