My life divides into geographical thirds—one-third in Atlanta, one-third in Chicago, and one-third in Colorado—and each has presented a different perspective on winter. In the Atlanta of my childhood enough snow would fall to accumulate on the ground maybe once every two or three years.  These were magical days of cancelled school, snow forts and … Read more

Various blogs have been hammering me for agreeing to speak to a group called the Gay Christian Network.  I get tired of writing about this issue because it stirs up such a storm of controversy and little of the dialogue seems constructive.  On the other hand, the church must keep engaging, and I know of … Read more

Over the last several months I’ve been traveling a lot, mainly in connection with the release of the book What Good Is God? I’ve also done radio interviews from my home in Colorado and written blogs for the likes of CNN.com and The Huffington Post.  Those last two assignments gave me a window into just … Read more

Drew Dyck’s book Generation Ex-Christian includes the following anecdote about the author’s visit to the Wheaton Atheist Club (Who knew such an organization existed?). Somewhere in the midst of our conversations, a jovial young man named Dan came clean as a former Christian.  He’d left the faith only months earlier. “I was in the Assemblies … Read more

Roaming in Romania: October 2010 November 2 was election day in the United States, and on the Internet I read about the “Tea Party Revolution” sparked by dissatisfaction with President Obama and the Democrats.  Earlier in the day I stood on Revolution Square where a local told me his memories of that fateful day 25 … Read more