A Thin Place

In January of this year, while speaking at a luncheon of a religious organization, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court asserted t...

I recently read a suggestion that people who go to church only on Christmas and Easter should be called "Chreasters" and not ...

Following the Newtown, Connecticut (Sandy Hook Elementary School) shootings, I saw several reports and commentaries that referred to the sho...

The Trayvon Martin killing brought publicity to Florida's "stand your ground" law, which was the model for similar legislation...

In another blog , I suggested (tongue-in-cheek) that the current drought in Texas might be God punishing Texans for being anti-gay. This was...

In my own thinking about God (or the Divine, or whatever word we want to use), the metaphor that I have found to be most useful is the metap...

"The Nine Billion Names of God" is the title of a science fiction story I read years ago, the details of which are not relevant to...