During my time at Harvard Divinity School, I noticed a number of classmates who arrived as members of other Christian traditions, but...

One of our close ecumenical partners in the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ is the Evangelical Church of Hesse and...

This month, Rev. Gary and I will merge our “columns” in Cross Currents – reflective of the partnership we share in the leading of our...

By the time you read this, the World Series will probably be over. As of this writing, before I leave on vacation, we know who is going...

“The Word of God stands alone and is inerrant!” This is the mantra of so many selective literalists, dishonest folks who claim to follow...

Jesus was not a free-market Neo-liberal capitalist. Obvious, right? There were both small-hold and commodity economies in Galilee and...

“Monty Python's Flying Circus” had flown long before I ever needed to shave, but their films were still coming out during my teenage and...

We do not know how Jesus understood himself and his role in what we now call salvation. He left nothing in writing, and accounts of his...

Years ago, I was active in university and community theater, including a stint as the Artistic Director of the historic Arden Shakespeare...

We have not always had the best PR. There was that whole thing at Salem, a footnote in history until Arthur Miller mapped it onto the Red...

I am sure none of us were surprised when Alexei Navalny died in a Russian gulag. After all, Vladimir Putin’s assassination squads had...

And the Oscar goes to... not “Barbie.” I saw “Barbie.” I liked it, thought it clever, and it certainly spoke powerful truths about...

A few days before Christmas, Linda at City Hall reached out to ask me what I wanted on my business cards. As a new City Council member,...

In Times Such as This The image shows up in my social media news feed almost every day in recent weeks, three boys with clothing and...

The Three Armies Problem At some point, most of you will have been presented with the Three Armies problem. In this exercise, you and...

Pumpkin Spice Communion I knew I needed to knock off some of the business world's sharp edges before beginning professional ministry, so...

There has been a lot of finger pointing. People have blamed clergy sex abuse scandals. They've blamed Sunday morning soccer. They've...

You would have good reason to question my judgment. Who signs on the be a minister in an age of terrifying church decline? And it has...

The UCC Historical Society has recognized the Afro-Christian Convention as a vital "fifth" stream in our theological tradition, joining...

White supremacists and Christian nationalists have bullied Target into pulling much of their Pride merchandise, and Anheuser-Busch InBev...