Resurrection Body: Physical or Spiritual?
Was Jesus’ resurrection body physical or spiritual? Or don’t those categories apply to what remains, after all, a mystery?
In Salvation Means Creation Healed I...
Only a Natural Cycle!
When war killed the land and the people were slain,
and governments raged, then I heard this refrain:
“It’s only a natural cycle.”
When economists saw how...
Five Ways Science is Spiritual
Advent may be a good time to think about the spirituality of science.
Genuine science is not really secular, but spiritual. Think about its spirituality.
Here...
Let’s (Txt?) Talk: Reclaiming Conversation
Perhaps you heard them discussing it on the radio: MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle’s new book, Reclaiming Conversation (Penguin, 2015, 436 pp.). The discussion caught...
When Children and Jesus Suffer
It’s possible to get all sentimental and misty-eyed about suffering and forget the real pain, tragedy, and injustice involved.
“The fact of suffering undoubtedly constitutes...
Parable of the Tiled Floor
I walk into a shopping mall. In a central courtyard is a beautiful floor made of different colors and sizes of tiles. Admiring the...
I Gave Up Too Soon!
Late last year we had some birch trees cut down in front of our house. The trunks were over a foot thick. I thought...
Where’s the Gospel’s Missing Third?
The Bible reveals a whole and healing gospel. Good News!
Today however, a third of the gospel is missing from much evangelical preaching, teaching, and...
2020 Is Here
Twenty-five years ago, some futurists foresaw a major global crisis arriving in about the year 2020.
In 1995 I published EarthCurrents: The Struggle for the...
Our Two Global Pandemics
The Earth – all of us, all humanity – now faces two massive global pandemics: Covid-19 and Climate Change.
Underneath and around these, of course,...