Brad Pitt on Freedom

In Rolling Stone, Chris Heath discusses religion with mega-movie star Brad Pitt:

There is one subject he refers to time and time again, and that is religion. ...

Bruce Willis on Morality

Actor Bruce Willis offers his opinion on church teachings about morality:

[Organized religion] used to hang the whole thing on one hook. If you don’t ...

Religious Pace Setters

For the first time in American history, whatever is happening in religion is being driven by the media instead of ecclesiastical institutions.

Tainted Spirituality

When you look at our history, it is no wonder that spirituality is so often treated with suspicion, and not infrequently with outright hostility. For ...

The Guts to Lead

Scott Turow begins his novel Presumed Innocent with the words of a prosecuting attorney named Rusty. Rusty is explaining his approach to the jury when ...

Authority's Fruit

The Latin root of "authority" and "authentic" means "that which allows growth and life." Our resentment of the authority ...

Stand Alone on the Word of God

I remain unpersuaded that any theological movement can dramatically affect the course of the world while its own leaders undermine the integrity of its ...

Keep Sermons Scriptural

A sermon that is not directly drawn from Scripture is orphaned, however bright or clever it may be.

The Myth of the Lighthouse

Believed by many to be truth, this mythical story about the lighthouse makes a great point: The captain of the ship looked into the dark night and saw ...