I’ve decided to enter the ministry. And I’m going back to school in order to prepare. My choice of schools is Meadville-Lombard Theological School. I want to go there so I can take the course “Queer ...

I was asked to preach at my daughter’s elementary school on Exodus 3:7–10, the story in which God appears to Moses in a burning bush, acknowledges the misery of the people, and promises to liberate ...

Scope: Radical theology as a field encompasses the intersections of constructive theology, secular theology, death-of-God theologies, political theologies, continental thought and contemporary culture ...

In June 1918 a Philadelphia reporter asked Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to describe her theology. McPherson flashed a smile and replied that she had none: rather, she favored ...

The spring season refreshes, revives and reinvigorates the natural world. Remnants of winter snows melt away, streams swell with runoff, days become longer as nights grow shorter, flowers blossom and ...

A private Roman Catholic university in Oregon is reorganizing its theology department next fall, enabling students to substitute a mandatory upper-level biblical texts course with classes that explore ...

Century ago the most notable thing about Protestant Christianity was that most of its practitioners throughout the world were optimists who believed in progress, creature comforts, civilization. Such ...

In contemporary culture, you do not have to choose between atheism and problematic conventional theology. In the past sixty years many new theologies have developed: existential, evolutionary, process ...

Should systematic theologies equally rely on Bible verses from the Old and New Testament? Experts weigh in. Do you ever feel that pastors are always preaching on the same Bible verses? Or that ...

Theologies that indulge and center our group identities aren’t faithful. They decenter Christ and belittle our neighbors. Faithful friend from flatt’ring foe. This insight closely mirrors the wisdom ...

Scope: Radical theology as a field encompasses the intersections of constructive theology, secular theology, death-of-God theologies, political theologies, continental thought and contemporary culture ...