Clashing Civilizations or Mutual Enrichment?
The last two weeks have left me overwhelmed and bemused. A grainy, amateur 14-minute YouTube film clip, ‘Innocence of Muslims’, satirizing Muhammad catapults to the headlines and is alleged to have...
View ArticleThe Politics of Church
When I came to Fuller Theological Seminary, I struggled to find a church. I visited the many establishment churches and small, non-commuter churches scattered throughout the area. Like many churches in...
View ArticleMoral Identity and Religious Conscience
Understanding the relationship between morality and religion has preoccupied humanity’s best and brightest for millennia (think Plato, Aquinas, Kant, Nietzsche). Today, fascination with questions of...
View ArticleFreedom of Speech – a universal value?
Freedom of speech is the concept that one should be able to express themselves, whatever opinion they may hold. It has never existed as an absolute, and generally the various Western philosophers and...
View ArticleBlack Political Theology: Resurrection Rather Than Death
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study hosted a conference at the beginning of this month on Theology and Black Politics. Opening with the question: “What is the Black Church?”, the conference...
View ArticleThe Politics of Immigration: Genesis 12:1-4a
The first reaction of the reader to Abram's calling, "That's supposed to be me," gives way to the second realization, which is "That COULD be me." And it is in imagining the fear and anxiety normally...
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