Almost fifty years ago, in the early 1970s a French philosopher named Jean-Pierre Lyotard began what was callled post-modern thinking. Post-modern thinking in its rudimentary form involved the deconstruction of all the major meta-narratives of modernity, particularly western modernity. This included a deconstruction of the Christian meta-narrative in whatever form it took. The main thing…

There is a nice new piece in Time magazine that I have been helping with for some time on Rob Bell written by David van Biema, one of the very best writers on religion in America. Here is the link—The Pastor’s No Square. Unfortunately much of the analysis of Bell that I offered is deleted…

There is a new Christian studies center being launched at my son’s alma mater, the University of Kentucky and the center has a website and is putting up inaugural podcasts. One of them involved an interview with me. You will find the teaser here below if you click on the link, and that will lead…

* Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest. * Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now. * The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. * To write with a broken pencil is pointless. * When…

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