How Cruel is Your God?
I’m endlessly fascinated by how people relate to God by way of images and figures that are important to them. Their preferred images of God may tell us more about their religiosity and about...
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Visiting Heaven
Eban Alexander has journeyed to heaven and returned to tell the tale. In addition to writing an upcoming book, he chose to publish his private revelation in the pages of Newsweek. He’s a neurosurgeon,...
Why Faith?
In my latest at Vox Nova, I look at the relationship of faith and love. A sample: The faith for which I strive doesn’t give me certainty about the origins of the cosmos or...
Thursday Theological Inquiry: God as Self-Emptying
My imagining of God has evolved some over the years as I’ve moved from accentuating figures and terms of power (almighty, omnipotent) to highlighting those of humility (kenosis, self-emptying, weakness). These days I am...
The Slavery of the Same
Conor P. Williams praised Michelle Obama’s DNC speech for combating the ugly belief that the president is something other than a real American. “It was a speech that demanded the president’s recognition as one...
How Much of Our Fidelity Is Acting?
Maybe it’s just an illusion of gossip-heavy mass media, but it sure seems that celebrity couples rarely stay true to one another till death do them part. The latest “news” of celebrity infidelity involves...
What Would Approving of Homosexuality Mean for the Roman Catholic Church?
For one thing, it would have to give up its claim to infallibility. Over at Vox Nova, I explain briefly what other changes the church would have to make, how the lives of gay...
Love Has No Time Constraints
Avery Lynn Canahuati, the five-month-old with spinal muscular atrophy whom I wrote about on Saturday, passed away Monday afternoon due to pulmonary complications. She had been expected to live another 18 months, so her...
Narrating a Dying Child’s Life
Avery is the five-month-old daughter of Laura and Mike Canahuati. She suffers from a rare genetic disorder that will take her life in less than two years. In response to learning, on Good Friday...
The Cloister of the Universe
Orthodoxy has it that God is all powerful–omnipotent–and yet the story remembered and retold in the Paschal Triduum that begins this evening–Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday–speaks of a weak God, a figure...
