GOD and the World! Over the years what I think about “God” has continued to shrink. I began as a teenager fundamentalist in the 1950s, continuing to broaden my understanding of theological issues through college and through my graduate school years and my 60 year teaching career. The primary influence in forming my current, and…

“JESUS WAS A REFUGEE?” Someone has been running a series of “religious commercials” on national television for some time now trying to bring Jesus into our national consciousness in a fresh way. Aside from the fact that these messages are written almost too small to be read by the human eye at normal television distance,…