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Bart Ehrman (b. 1955) is a recently retired professor of religion at the University of North Carolina and a prolific author on the New Testament and early church history. He has had six books on the NYT best seller list and his book Misquoting Jesus has over 3,000 starred reviews on Amazon. He is also a popular blogger and public sp...
A few weeks ago, a Facebook post by a fellow retired ELCA pastor caught my attention. He shared a graphic containing this quotation from German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
We are not simply to bi...
President Trump has created quite a dust-up in recent weeks by attacking talks and sermons given by Pope Leo XIV during Holy Week and on his current Africa tour. Trump has often, and rather oddly, treated the pope like another political leaders (weak on crime?). Pope Leo, meanwhile, has generally refused to engage with the president’s ...
I wrote last time about the futility of finding God through reason, logic, facts, evidence, doctrine, and so on. To do so assumes that God is “out there” somewhere, so that is where we think we need to look. In contrast to that approach, Elizabeth Brunig, the author of the essay I featured, believes we need to pay attention to our experiences and the feelings they gen...
The question “Does God exist?” has been asked and debated, it seems, for as long as humans have been around. Over the past four hundred years or so, the question has centered on whether modern science’s understanding of the universe is incompatible with the idea of God. You would think that would be ple...