I’m finishing a fine novel called All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr in which one of the characters repeats this mantra: Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. I feel…
Crowds flock to Georgia to pay tribute to cancer-stricken Jimmy Carter
Kentucky clerk seeks Supreme Court help to deny gay marriage licenses
Myanmar’s president signs off on law seen as targeting Muslims
Five grieving mothers & the problem of race
Holy smoke! Did Baptist News Global spot a ghost in that BBC barbecue report?
As you would expect, I get lots of email about religion- news stuff. That tends to happen when you’ve been in the religion-columnist business — in one form or another — since 1982. All that old snail mail on dead-tree…
Inquiry may pit pope against Bosnian shrine
Former Vatican diplomat accused of child sex abuse is dead
Communities face backlash for lessons on Islam in schools
New school year starts, and many seminarians are staying put
Donald Trump plans meeting with evangelicals
What the Bible is
The written documents that constitute our Bible are snapshots of an evolving, developing, dynamic faith frozen in time. The faith exhibited in these written sources thrived in an oral culture that did not depend on written materials. Writing materials were…