Hard yet important questions of faith don’t often surface where they should. In fact, church buildings often provide the safest rooms for elephants to gather incognito.  Ignoring such questions, however, …

A major distraction from following Jesus — the primary calling of the Christian faith, supposedly — is how and how much attention is given to Jesus’ death — with an …

In the golden days of hymns we sang, “We will follow the steps of Jesus where’er they go.” Then in the early days of choruses we sang, “I have decided …

Holding firmly to one’s beliefs was among the earliest edicts in the faith tradition that nurtured me. That was bad advice. It was built on the false notion that we …

To a large degree, professing Christians in America got in on the fix by rearranging the essentials of the faith to which Jesus calls those who seek to live in …

My default is set on avoiding sports illustrations because men tend to use too many of them — and not often well. But throughout the season I have been contemplating …

Thanksgiving is a good time to reflect on the first year of the Jesus Worldview Initiative as part of the Rev. Charlie Curb Center for Faith Leadership at Belmont University. …