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Into Wind and Water: How American Pentecostalism Is Changing
Home for the summer after my first year at Harvard Divinity School, I enter the worship center of Calvary Temple Church in Concord,...
Sep 28, 20231 min read


Curry and Purdy: In God's Hands
The star athletes in whose hands we trust the ball with the game on the line see themselves as in God’s hands. That’s worth pondering....
Sep 23, 20234 min read


“Rich Men North of Richmond”—A Few Philosophical Thoughts
Oliver Anthony seems very familiar. I grew up in Montana with a lot of guys just like him, singer of the viral song “Rich Men North of...
Sep 7, 20236 min read


Do Preachers Plagiarize? Yes and No.
I was sitting in the dim auditorium of a nationally known church, listening to the lead pastor belt out another amazing sermon. It was...
Aug 24, 20236 min read


Is the Cross the Right Symbol for the Church?
When I was taught as a child how to share my faith, the story went like this: “We’re all sinners, and sin brings death and separation...
Aug 24, 20234 min read


On the Brain Hemisphere that Loves Music
Whatever it is that we call “spirituality” has to go through the brain, the three pound organ under our skulls that has roughly 100...
Aug 24, 20233 min read


The Bollywood Inspiration of this Blog
A professor asked his hungover engineering student at the beginning of a 7am class: “Can you tell me how an internal combustion engine...
Aug 24, 20232 min read
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