“The basis of God’s forgiveness of me is the substitutionary death of Jesus. The basis of my forgiveness of my brother who sins against me is that same substitutionary death of Jesus. Who am I to suggest that the death of Jesus is insufficient to pay for my brother’s sin against sinful me, when at […]

I am a pragmatist and thus cremation of the dead has seemed to me to be the sensible way to avoid the cost and sometimes macabre aspects of funerals. My mother, though well-schooled in the reality of decay and the theology of resurrection, said she wanted to be buried, not cremated, because she wanted Jesus […]

The February 2, 2011 CBS Los Angeles website (http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/02/02/lausd-school-says-song-has-too-much-jesus/ carried the story of a 10-year-old boy who, as part of his school’s talent show, wanted to do an interpretive dance to a song that included the word Jesus. The principal reportedly told the boy’s mother that the song was “offensive” and violated the separation of […]