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- December, 21, 2009, Christmas Truth
- December 7, 2009, "Behold, a virgin shall conceive..."
- November 23, 2009, Forgiving Our Enemies: The Fort Hood Shootings
- November 9, 2009, Another 3:16 To Ponder
- October 26, 2009, Conservatizing The Bible
- October 12, 2009, Conversion, Conviction, And Conscience
- September 28, 2009, Revisiting The Ninth Commandment
- September 14, 2009, Sin, Health, And The Sin Of Not Reforming Health Care
- August 31, 2009, Toward A Faith Perspective On Health Care Reform
- August 17, 2009, Guns and Nukes
- August 3, 2009, The God Particle
- July 20, 2009, Finding Answers To Hard Questions About Faith: A New Book For You
- July 6, 2009, A Couple Of Biblical Texts In Context
- June 22, 2009, A Kind Of Closeness Not To Worry About
- June 8, 2009, Loving And Cherishing Our Opposites
- May 25, 2009, Encouraging One Another In The Faith
- May 11, 2009, A Mainstream Denomination's Struggle For Inclusiveness
- April 27, 2009, The Trouble With Fundamentalism
- April 13, 2009, The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ
- March 30, 2009, Keeping The Faith When Questions Outweigh Answers
- March 16, 2009, IVF And The Right To Life
- March 2, 2009, Talking About Faith
- February 16, 2009, 'Can We Talk' About Gay Marriage?
- February 2, 2009, Gay Divorce
- January 19, 2009, Faith, Hope, And Love In Times Of Grief And Loss
- January 5, 2009 , The Buddha, The Christ, And The Prophet: Some Thou...
- December 22, 2008 , Scenes of Grief And Signs Of Healing
- December 8, 2008 , God Rest You Worried Gentlefolk
- November 24, 2008 , Grieving Our Way Through The Holidays
- November 10, 2008 , A Puppy, A Pastor, And A President
- October 27, 2008 , Alan Greenspan's "Mistake": Some Theological Refle...
- October 13, 2008 , Bedmates: Marital and Political
- September 29, 2008 , The Bailout And The Economics Of Apocalypse
- September 15, 2008,Community Mental Health: A Forgotten Initiative
- September 1, 2008,The Money That Buys Happiness
- August 18, 2008,Christian Broadcasting And The Fairness Doctrine
- August 4, 2008,The Serenity Prayer
- July 21, 2008,Getting To Heaven In More Ways Than One
- July 7, 2008,Coming To Faith (2)
- June 23, 2008, Coming To Faith (1)
- June 9, 2008, A Postmortem On Pulpit Malfeasance
- May 26, 2008, Coming To Faith The Hard Way
- May 12, 2008, One More Time Around On Homosexuality
- April 28, 2008, Getting In The Mood For Pentecost: Some Thoughts On The Gift Of Interpretation
- April, 14, 2008, The Conservative/Liberal Divide: Narrowing?
- March 31, 2008, Getting It Right On Bible Courses In Schools
- March 17, 2008, The Churning Of Religious Affiliation
- March 3, 2008, Toward A Christian Perspective On Globalization
- February 18, 2008, Theological Musings On The Coming Tax Rebate
- February 4, 2008, Young Adults And Not-So Youthful Christian Politics
- January 21, 2008, The Changing Face Of American Civil Religion
- January 7, 2008, Déjà Vu Economics
- December 24, 2007, Christmas In The New Jerusalem
- December 10, 2007, Muhammad Bears
- November 26, 2007, The Idea Of A Second Coming
- November 12, 2007, Post-Denominationalism
- October 29, 2007, Speeding Up Jesus' Return
- October 15, 2007, The Freedom To Express Hate
- October 1, 2007, The Jena Tree
- September 17, 2007, God And The Lottery
- September 3, 2007, The Spiritual Desolation Of Mother Teresa
- August 20, 2007, Another Kind Of Adultery
- August 6, 2007, What's Right About The New Atheism
- July 23, 2007, Taking Some Of The Fight Out Of A Fighting Word
- July 9, 2007, Being Reasonable About the Bible
- June 25, 2007, Experiencing The Truth In The Bible
- June 11, 2007, A Bible Illumined By Tradition
- May 28, 2007, An Accommodating Bible
- May 14, 2007, Little Ones To Him Belong
- April 30, 2007, Karma and Grace
- April 16, 2007, Jesus As Hero, Savior, And Friend
- April 2, 2007, The Mystery of Jesus' Suffering
- March 19, 2007, An Exhortation Best Ignored
- March 5, 2007, Dry Bones, Dead Faith
- February 20, 2007, Getting The real Paul To Stand Up
- February 5, 2007, The Right Hand Of God
- January 22, 2007, The Methodists, The Bishops, And The Library
- January 8, 2007, Teddy
- December 31, 2006, Christmas Lights In The New Year
- December 11, 2006, The Bible, The Quran, and The Congress
- November 20, 2006, Wal-Mart and the Kingdom
- November 6, 2006, A New Right To Life Issue
- October 23, 2006, The Pulpit and the IRS
- October 9, 2006, A Lesson In Faith From The Amish
- September 25, 2006, The Pope Flap
- September 13, 2006, Two Sexual Roads Less Traveled
- August 23, 2006, Race, Gender, and So-Called Normal Sex
- August 9, 2006, The Strange Debate About "Christianists"
- July 26, 2006, Infallibility
- July 12, 2006, Odium Theologicum
- June 28, 2006, Being Born At The Wrong Time
- June 14, 2006, Getting Off The Family Merry-Go-Round
- May 24, 2006, Navigating the Slippery Slopes
- May 10, 2006, The Gospel of Judas
- April 26, 2006, Strangers, Sojourners, and Aliens In Our Midst
- April 12, 2006, Even Unto the Cross: an Eastertide Meditation
- March 22, 2006, Staying in the Neighborhood
- March 8, 2006, A Global Spiritual Awakening
- February 22, 2006, Defaming the Prophet
- February 8, 2006, Protestantism and American Values
- January 25, 2006, Moving in Faith
- January 11, 2006, The Light of the World: A Meditation for Epiphany
- December 21, 2005, An Anne Rice Christmas
- December 7, 2005, Who’s In Charge At Your Church
- November 23, 2005, A Few Prayers to the Intelligent Designer
- November 9, 2005, A Thousand Years With Christ
- October 26, 2005, Legacy Costs
- October 12, 2005, Missing the Rainbow
- September 28, 2005, The So-Called Problem of Natural Evil
- September 14, 2005, Nature's Fury
- August 24, 2005, Religious Literacy and the Public Schools
- August 10, 2005, Pharmaceutical Morality
- July 27, 2005, Love That Outlasts Marriage
- June 22, 2005, Revisiting “Traditional” Marriages
- June 8, 2005, Marriages That Outlast Love
- May 25, 2005, Mixing Religion And Politics Badly
- May 11, 2005, Abortion
- April 27, 2005, The Exaltation of John Paul II: A Motion to Table
- April 13, 2005, Two Crowds, Two Hopes, Two Deaths
- March 23, 2005, Exorcism, Jesus-Style
- March 9, 2005, Exorcism, Scott Peck-Style
- February 23, 2005, Arthur Miller: In Appreciation
- February 9, 2005, Stem Cell Research
- January 26, 2005, Evolution and “Intelligent Design”
- January 12, 2005, Explorations in Faith and Belief: New Essays
- December 22, 2004, Lament and Hope at Year’s End
- December 8, 2004, Constitutionally Correct Praying
- November 24, 2004, Left Behind Liberals
- November 10, 2004, “Moral Values” and the 2004 Election
- October 27, 2004, Jews, Palestinians, And a Divided Christian Community
- October 13, 2004, The Right to Health Care
- September 22, 2004, Iraq: a "Just War?"
- September 8, 2004, The Economics of Apocalypse
- August 25, 2004, Death, Taxes, And The Bible
- August 11, 2004, Who's In, Who's Out, and Who Says
- July 28, 2004, More Beliefs Worth Doubting
- July 14, 2004, Bill Clinton in Biblical Perspective
- June 23, 2004, Jailhouse Conversions
- June 9, 2004, A Methodist Theologian Not To Forget
- May 26, 2004, The Politics of Holy Communion
- May 12, 2004, Methodist Schismatics
- April 28, 2004, Second Comings
- April 14, 2004, Divinely Ordained Murder
- March 24, 2004, Shouting At the Devil (The Passion of the Christ)
- March 10, 2004, The Physical Suffering of Christ (The Passion of the Christ)
- February 25, 2004, Violence and Salvation (The Passion of the Christ)
- February 11, 2004, The Methodists, the Anglicans, and the Gays
- January 28, 2004, Tax Supported Ministerial Students?
- January 14, 2004, The Da Vinci Code
- January 7, 2004, Mirth and Myrrh
- December 24, 2003, Winning One for the Grinch
- December 10, 2003, Beliefs Worth Doubting
- November 26, 2003, Marriage and the Constitution
- November 12, 2003, Trusting Our Doubts
- October 22, 2003, One Nation "Under God"
- October 8, 2003, Infidels
- September 24, 2003, Anger in the Bible
- September 10, 2003, One-Issue Religion
- August 27, 2003, Be Careful Where You Put The Ten Commandments
- August 13, 2003, A Gay Bishop, for Heaven's Sake
- July 23, 2003, No-Growth Churches
- July 9, 2003, Disease as Metaphor
- June 25, 2003, Christian Marriage Today: The Promise
- June 11, 2003, Christian Marriage Today: The Reality
- May 28, 2003, Christian Marriage Today: The Fantasies
- May 14, 2003, Democracy as a World Mission
- April 23, 2003, The Judas Complex
- April 9, 2003, A Better Way To Deal With Sadness
- March 26, 2003, Shock and Awe
- March 12, 2003, The Kingdom and the Neighborhood
- February 26, 2003, The Pressure to Believe
- February 12, 2003, Methodist Inquisitors
- January 22, 2003, Overturning the Death Penalty
- January 8, 2003, A Little Less Self-Expression, Please
- December 25, 2002, Getting Over a Really Bad Dream
- December 11, 2002, The Tenth Commandment
- November 20, 2002, Fighting the Right War
- November 6, 2002, School Prayer
- October 23, 2002, Religious Pluralism
- October 9, 2002, Getting Left Behind When the Rapture Comes
- September 25, 2002, Putting the End of the World in Perspective
- September 11, 2002, The Lessons of 9/11
- August 28, 2002, Being a Liberal Christian Without Losing Your Faith
- August 14, 2002, Being a Conservative Christian Without Losing Your Faith
- July 24, 2002, The Unforgivable(?) Sin
- July 10, 2002, Bethlehem's Present Travail
- June 26, 2002, Images of the Family: Ours and God's
- June 12, 2002, Leroy's Plan