Converting Christians to the Way of Jesus

In “It’s Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian,” author Samir Selmanovic tells about an experience he had on the morning of Sept. 11, 2002. One of the Christian family radio networks had lined him up for an interview....

Brand Loyalty? Boomers Not Tied to One Church

Two recent conversations haunt me. An old college friend, a leading-edge baby boomer (age 63) whom I knew to be a person of faith in college, told me he and his wife “had given up on the institutional church.” The other conversation was with an educated...

If a Religion Must Lie, It Must Die

Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons, wrote a very moving and, to me, troubling essay in USA TODAY. The basic idea is that too much truth when it comes to religion is a bad thing. At issue is Rod’s journalistic examination of the sex abuse scandals that rocked the...