The Worlds We Make

We can have words without a world but no world without words or other symbols.—Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking
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Capacious Inclusion

I’ve got a question for the child in you before it leavesAre you tough enough to be kind?Do you know your heart has its own mind?Darkness gathers...
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Summer Reading Group: Stand Out of Our...

“The gate to salvation is narrow, and closing quickly” (xii). The urgency of this most Adventist-sounding warning in the introduction to James...
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An Explanation of the Father and the...

As I talk to more and more Seventh-day Adventists lately, it has become increasingly apparent how deeply headship theology has infiltrated the church...
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Attention Deficit

“Men have no eyes but for those aspects of things which they have already been taught to discern.” —William James, Psychology
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The Far Country

My mother was dead and my father consented — I withdrew my college fund and split. I was done with small town mentality and narrow-mindedness, tired...
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Outrage and Longing

“The desire to surpass our limits is as essential to the structure of the human as the recognition that we cannot.” —Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern...
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Oh Be Careful, Little Ears, What You...

My earliest church memory in Savannah, Georgia, features willowy Mrs. Boyle, with gray hair twirled in a loose bun, singing while pointing to her...
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Book Review: Protest and Progress

It was prolific scholar W.E.B. DuBois who penned in 1903 of the “double consciousness” or “twoness” of the African American people.
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Violence Like a Garment

For I was envious of the arrogant;I saw the prosperity of the wicked.For they have no pain;their bodies are sound and sleek.They are not in trouble...
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