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The Bible as literature: Marilynne Robinson on "the book of books"
The novelist Marilynne Robinson, who always writes eloquently, writes eloquently of the innumerable connections between the Bible and other works of art. I think she’s…
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Five inner demons, four better angels . . .
. . . and a more peaceful 2012? That’s not yet another take on the 12 Days of Christmas, it’s what Steven Pinker, Harvard Psychologist,…
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Finding Christmas in an incomplete sentence
The current liturgical church year is a year to read the Gospel of Mark. But what are we to do at Christmastime with the only…
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LAY BIBLE INSTITUTE asks “Are We Still Fighting the Crusades?” – Jan 2012
Paul Robinson will lead the winter Lay Bible Institute, “Are We Still Fighting the Crusades?” The Institute will take place Wednesday evenings, Jan 11-Feb 1,…
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A “Church” that Never Saw “Christmas”
Ancient ruins and our not-so-ancient “Christmas”
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In memoriam: Vaclav Havel
A second prolific writer and public intellectual has died in the space of a few days. But their lives couldn’t have been more different.
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Losing Face[book]
Why I abandoned the third largest “country” in the world.
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New Bible Study on Jeremiah by Reed Lessing
Dr. Reed Lessing, Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Seminary, is the author of a new Bible study: “Jeremiah: A Book on Surviving Disasters.” According…
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The Calling – A Growing Interest in Vocation
I’ve been watching a documentary on PBS called The Calling. It follows “seven young religious students — Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Jewish — who…