Essays

There’s a funny thing about living with chronic pain. Eventually, you get used to it. I don’t mean that it goes away. I don’t mean that it no longer hurts.

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Martin Luther stood in peril of his earthly life and possibly his eternal soul. The energetic Wittenberg firebrand challenged more than he realized when he issued debating points to the

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I grew up in a non-religious Jewish home. I never opened a Bible, Old or New Testament. Never went to synagogue. Certainly never went to church. I went through undergraduate

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Scot Loyd wrote a provocative piece It Seems Good to the Holy Ghost: A Defense of Progressive Christianity here on Faith on View. A reader who I know in real

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Social media is fraught with challenges, not the least of which is racism. I admit that over the last few years, I have become less active on social media—part of

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A couple of years ago, a meme started to float around in what I think of as my Internet circles that wasn’t so much a joke as it was an

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One of the unfortunate consequences of growing up as a small, skinny kid with little to no athletic talents, is that I was always picked last when participating in playground

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Let’s face it, it is absolutely impossible for us to understand an eternal transcendent God and his domain. It is far beyond our comprehension. So, we often use metaphors to

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If I could pick my pastor, I imagine they would be—compassionate, bold, and unapologetically challenging the status quo. Picture a shepherd for the marginalized, embodying the very essence of love

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“Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! And all was light.” Alexander Pope’s epitaph for the renowned English philosopher and mathematician did not make

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Aesthetics and Theology A year ago, I had the joy of reading Aesthetics in a redwood forest in the hills near Santa Cruz. It was a great way to pass

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A Complicity I Can No Longer Ignore I am convinced there is a concerted effort to move this nation backward, and I have been complicit. Let me explain what I

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