My good friend Damon Reiss and I will be spending some time reading and writing together on the issues raised in N.T. Wright’s New Testament and the People of God.  This text is the first in a five part series that Wright is doing on “Christian Origins and the Question of God”.  Wright is understood [...]

Dear Dan, In a recent edition of the Boston Globe you had this to say about Detroit: Think about it: For the next five weeks, you could live in downtown Boston and your wife could shop on Newbury Street. Or you could live in downtown Detroit, amid the boarded-up buildings and the proverbial skeleton frames [...]

…where atleast I know I can buy, whatever I want, when I want it, and nobody can stop me. There are few lasting images in my mind like that of September 11, 2001 and the days that followed.  I remember where I was when I found out the World Trade Center had been attacked.  I [...]

In my experience the evangelical church has a bit of an integrity problem.  No, I am not talking about the issues that just popped in your head.  I am talking about the Holy Spirit.  The last time I checked he was still part of the Godhead, you know the Triune God we Christians believe in? [...]

“If God is not the defining center of our faith, life, and identity, then who or what is? (58)” Now there is a question. The Hirsch’s continue to challenge our thinking in relation to the center of our faith in chapter 2 of “Untamed”. There is nothing more central to who we are than what [...]