3 天之前 · O ne of the most dangerous aspects of religion is the willingness of some of its adherents to imagine that they can grasp the fullness of God and understand how, where, when and why God acts in human affairs.. Ever since Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt while campaigning last year in Pennsylvania, lots of people have declared that he survived only because God intervened so that ...

3 天之前 · Several years ago, the then-pastor of my congregation, the Rev. Paul T. Rock, preached a sermon based on the many stained glass windows in our sanctuary, some of which are seen in this post.. Paul's point was that all of us are stained and broken but that through God's grace and the love of our families and neighbors we, too, can be turned into something beautiful, like the windows.

7 小时之前 · C hristian seminaries have had a difficult time in the last several decades, as participation in institutional religion in the U.S. has plummeted. They've had to make adjustments in various ways, including offering online classes and helping to prepare graduates to do ministry in a nation in which the percentage of the population that …

2025年1月1日 · A few weeks ago here on the blog, I wrote about the difference between "private religion" and more communal approaches to being part of a faith tradition.. I invited readers to respond with their experiences of one kind of faith or the other. Today, to start out a brand new year, I want to share a couple of responses to that post because I thought they were insightful for me and might be for ...

2024年11月30日 · O ne of the intriguing results of the recent presidential election was the voter turnout, which was down more than 8.5 million votes compared with turnout in 2020.. As I write this, the turnout this year as counted so far was just under 147 million compared with the 2020 turnout of about 155.5 million.. What happened? Lots of theories, some of which make sense.

2024年10月30日 · D ebt, it turns out, seems to be as American as apple pie.. For instance, this Lending Tree site tells us that Americans' total credit card unpaid balance was $1.142 trillion in the second quarter of 2024. And this U.S. Treasury site says our current national debt is $35.7 trillion and counting.. My friend Howard Mick, a member of my congregation and a retired attorney, is so concerned about ...

2024年12月18日 · As we move to the end of a remarkable year that has been challenging in countless of ways, I've been thinking about the big picture.You know, an eternal view. A cosmic sense of things. It's been one way to reconvince myself that I cannot, individually, change everything I want to change in the world -- from ending wars to stopping crime to …

2024年1月20日 · E very human being at some point experiences pain, grief, catastrophe, loss. In fact, I wrote about a few examples in my own life in my most recent blog post here.. The ultimate question is how we respond to disasters so they don't irrevocably break us.

2024年12月28日 · P atriotism, meaning a commitment to one's country, is quite different from a commitment to one's faith tradition. But they share at least this in common: Both require an unswerving willingness to speak the truth, to question and challenge policies and actions that seem destructive and to know not only what you stand for …

Bill Tammeus writes about religion and ethics.