Brian Bantum
The novelist and the theologian
I’m trying to live as Haruki Murakami writes: with questions but not an end in mind.
The novelist and the theologian
I’m trying to live as Haruki Murakami writes: with questions but not an end in mind.
The well-credentialed pastor
My friend doesn’t want a PhD. He’s getting one anyway.
Science fiction writers imagine the way out
Jesus’ parables give us space to see that something else is possible. Writers of new worlds put flesh on these bones.
When and where did the resurrected Jesus first appear?
The Bible offers conflicting answers.
Twisting words
What does it mean to protect women and girls?
Encouraged by donkeys
For almost 40 years they have done their plodding, gracious work on me and my vocation.
The border is everywhere
For example, it runs right through a detention center in Mississippi.
Reading again
Books don’t change, but we do.
Jesus is the question
He might be the answer, too. But he doesn’t offer much in the way of tweetable platitudes.
Anti-racism’s mission drift
Privileged progressives have turned their attention from structures and systems to sentimentalism.
The testimony of water
We are as reliant on grace as our bodies are on water.
The Word became relationship
Christianity is, finally, a story in which communication prevails over violence.