For too long, our controversies seem to boil down to conservatives and liberals (or, if you prefer, traditionalists and progressives) talking past each other for the benefit of stirring up their loyalists, as partisans do...

We so want to be right and so trust that our desire to be right is something that God would surely bless. Yet the desire to be right comes with a price: the fear of...

The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.

I love you, but I hate your overeating” doesn’t help a marriage. It’s not helpful because hatred is a powerful emotion (a posture, really) that is not easy to wield or maintain carefully. Hatred is...

Virtually every church tradition, by theology, interpretive strategies, or pastoral practice, makes accommodations for divorced people who seek to remarry. These accommodations permit divorced people to enter unions that are outside the rule laid down...

In the deepest, most central place of our being, we don’t want to cross God and our not wanting to is the beginning of wisdom.

If we have a hair trigger on the exclusion gun, shouldn’t it be aimed at those who are using their power to abuse someone who is in a weaker, more vulnerable position?