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I’ve often thought it would be fun to write a scholarly essay on love using song lyrics.  Music plays such an important part of our lives, and I confess that music has profoundly shaped the way I see the world.

In the last five months, I’ve done more hiking than I have in the last 15 years. I find trekking the wilderness inspiring.

Open theology offers an impressive theological framework. But Open theology has a problem with the problem of evil.

Many of us recognize the need for transformation in our own lives and in the church. We need wise principles to help us respond well to God’s guidance into this transformation.

I’ve noticed that many who self-identify as emerging or emergent Christians emphasize following Jesus, pursuing Jesus’ way, or living a life that imitates Jesus. I like this emphasis.

Jesus’ brain must have made a difference in who he was and how he loved. Recent neuroscience offers research and theories that prompt us to think anew about Jesus of Nazareth.

Exemplars are unique and they don’t become exemplars overnight. They are proof of the old saying, practice makes perfect.

Love is primary for any adequate ethic. But can the human brain – especially the brains of those who love often and well – tell us anything about love?

I have long thought love the heart of a biblically oriented ethics. But an influential book by New Testament scholar, Richard Hays, argues otherwise.

Not long ago, I was asked to prepare a lecture on postmodernism and the Wesleyan theological tradition. After reflecting on the two, I proposed ten ways in which revisionary postmodernism coheres with Wesleyan theological concerns.