With Christmas fast approaching, I have been looking for gifts that I can purchase for my two sons. They want the normal things that most kids seem to want: Transformers toys, video games, toy ...

Postmodernism, with its critique of modern assumptions about knowledge, language, authority and narrative, presents new challenges for preachers. Postmodernity is generally seen as entailing a ...

Scripture is never simple. Even before we begin to read, we must know who is speaking, and why, and to whom, and with what agenda. To make matters even harder, the events and teachings we read about ...

THERE are statements and expressions used in Christianity seemingly harmless and innocent to believers in Christ. These statements end up forming dogmas and ethos quite disastrously, destroying the ...

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It was good, fun political theater when Stephen Colbert, almost entirely in character, testified before Congress last week as an “expert” on migrant farm workers. For background, here’s a quick ...