“It’s Almost Like Praying”

​Everyone who understands the compassion Jesus expressed for the suffering and struggle of people under the rule of the Roman Empire, can experience the horror and devastation of those people of faith suffering in PuertoRead more

Thinking Critically Matters

Think critically about religion. That’s what this web site promotes. We mean for it to also promote active resistance to empires. But let’s save that for another time. And, so that we’re clear, we shouldRead more

Our Fetish For Secrecy: A Silent Population

​ David R. Dykes The media frenzy over reports of government listening in on phones and hacking into computers and the controversy surrounding Snowden’s “wikileaking” is, to say the least, disturbing. How seriously should weRead more

My Wife Has Breast Cancer.

​We know there is suffering going on around us. Print media, television and the internet provide a steady stream or steady multiple streams reporting every imaginable human agony. And the images are right there beforeRead more

Coming in 2016: The Challenge of Paul

​Most of what we’ve been taught about the Apostle Paul is wrong. In the same way  radical Jesus was tamed into a transfigured being floating in the clouds, radical Paul has been historically defamed asRead more

The Truth Does Not Lie In The Middle

​Dr. Joerg Rieger, Wendland-Cook Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, TX, exposes the wounds of the 99% – – of blacks, whites, hispanic, women, children and men largely ignored by theRead more

MIND CHATTER: Be still and know

​Did I turn the oven off?  Where did I put my glasses?  Oh my god, I forgot Helen’s birthday!  I’ve got to have this project finished by Friday!  Did I remember to feed the dog?Read more

FLEECING THE BELIEVER

“​If Whole Foods and Joel Osteen got together and had a child, it would probably look something like Herbalife.”Do I have your attention now?  You’ve got to read this article by MICHAEL SCHULSON, freelance writerRead more