I don’t often get to visit other congregations, so it was good to visit Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., recently. A hobby club I’m in…
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A historic Wilcox County church that became the center of Dr. Rosa J. Young’s Lutheran ministry across Alabama’s Black Belt will commemorate i…
Raised in a Protestant Christian tradition that values the historic creeds of the Church, I learned from an early age to respect and repeat th…
In classes I teach on Freethought and Religion, I often startle students with the factual claim that Christians are atheists. This isn’t some …
Reading about a gathering of thousands of Christian men in my home state of Washington, I wasn’t surprised to hear them proclaiming the need f…
In lively youth group days, singing brought us together for faith and fun. One of the most popular songs for a campfire or living room was “Th…
While serving in ministry, I led services and prayed with Muslim men and women. As a chaplain, I brought many Qur’ans inside to prisoners. Whe…
A reader implored me “to refrain from writing blasphemous ideas that can turn others away from the truth …” Not unfamiliar with this complaint…
I was brought up confessing—sins, of course, but also sincere beliefs. We could say the foundation of the Christian Church is confession. Prof…
It was reported that the Jewish teacher Jesus of Nazareth instructed his disciples to “go into all the world, making disciples of all nations.…