“Don’t be tied up as equal partners with people who don’t believe. What does righteousness share with that which is outside the Law? What relationship does light have with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14 (CEB) One of the big issues I often encountered when I was in youth minist...

A short news item at the American Family Association’s conservative One News Now website really got me thinking this morning. The piece quotes the cultural affairs director of a conservative law firm who asserts that social views on controversial topics like gay marriage are being manipulated ...

No one expected Claremont to become another Asbury, but who knew that the liberal theological school would move even further away from its Methodist roots? The United Methodist Reporter has been covering the school’s new multifaith university project, and with the exception of a couple of comm...

Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis says that God is “sad and mad” about the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. No arguments from me, but I think that reality is probably a little more complex. I figure God is also “glad” that there was a $20 billion fund set up to compensate victims of t...

I’ve been critical of Jim Wallis on occasion, and I think he jumped the shark when he pronounced a curse on Sarah Palin, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to hear what the guy has to say. A Christian music festival in Oshkosh, WI has stirred up controversy by inviting Wallis to sp...

Is Independence Day one of the more atheist-friendly holidays? The Washington Post makes that observation as it reports on a gathering of atheist leaders in the nation’s capital. While reading the article, I couldn’t help but notice how much atheism is defined by the God that atheists cl...

The Supreme Court ruled this week that a public law school can deny the Christian Legal Society recognition because it bars gays from membership. The issue of homosexuality, of course, surrounds this case with a little more controversy, but ultimately it’s not all the ruling was about. The Sup...

The British Methodist Church has voted to boycott Israeli-produced goods and services from the West Bank because of Israel’s “illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.” (Next step: Boycott “Zionist” brands from Ahmadinejad’s no-buy list perhaps?) This is yet anothe...

Wayne Leman at the Better Bibles Blog recently highlighted this video from YouTube– a hip hop reading of Isaiah 53 from the New Living Translation. ...

According to the Los Angeles Times, the United Methodist University Senate has restored funding to Claremont School of Theology. Why the about-face? Claremont has promised the UMC that the $800,000 or so they receive from the denomination will not support a school that trains students for religions...