Exorcising the Ghosts of Jesus Past
OCTOBER 29, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN One Sunday, toward the end of a particularly lively and deep seminar with my “Living Stones” adult Christian education group after the morning service, I…
Don’t Read the Constitution like Literalists Read the Bible
OCTOBER 16, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN Not long ago, I found myself involved behind the scenes in a squabble between the chair of my department and another department colleague. Their disagreement…
When Gender Theology Doesn’t Fit in Our Boxes: Then and Now
JUNE 26, 2019 BY ANDREA L. TURPIN I love to study people who don’t fit in boxes. These people explode our assumptions about which ideas or which actions go together.…
Researchers Say Atheists Are Better Sleepers Than Catholics and Baptists
BY HEMANT MEHTA AUGUST 31, 2020 In an extremely brief paper (technically a research abstract) that’s getting attention this week because it was presented at a virtual conference, students at…
When Baptists Believed in the Bible—and Bourbon
AUGUST 26, 2020 BY DAVID SWARTZ Having lived in Kentucky for close to a decade now, I’ve found the commonwealth to be paradoxical. It’s located squarely in the Bible Belt.…
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When the Bible is Not the Word of God
AUGUST 19, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN This month marks the eighth anniversary of this blog. It started on WordPress as an outlet for short essays that I had been writing for…