3 days ago · Bill Tammeus writes about religion and ethics.

January 01, 2025 A few weeks ago here on the blog, I wrote about the difference between "private religion" and more communal approaches to being part of a faith tradition.

Dec 25, 2024 · A s we move to the end of a remarkable year that has been challenging in countless of ways, I've been thinking about the big picture. You know, an eternal view. A cosmic sense of things. It's been one way to reconvince myself that I cannot, individually, change everything I want to change in the world -- from ending wars to stopping crime to creating peace everywhere. I must be both realistic ...

Jan 20, 2024 · Every human being at some point experiences pain, grief, catastrophe, loss. In fact, I wrote about a few examples in my own life in my most recent blog post here. The ultimate question is how we respond to disasters so...

Feb 3, 2024 · Nashville, Tenn., and Delavan, Ill. -- I've double-datelined this piece because I want to tell you two interrelated family stories that are rooted in faithful living. Recently my wife Marcia and I drove to Nashville to celebrate the 19th birthday...

Dec 18, 2024 · As we move to the end of a remarkable year that has been challenging in countless of ways, I've been thinking about the big picture. You know, an eternal view. A cosmic sense of things. It's been one way to reconvince myself that I cannot, individually, change everything I want to change in the ...

Jan 8, 2025 · In this blog post last weekend, I introduced you briefly to a new book about the murder of a journalist in India and about India's increasingly autocratic, self-certain and frightening government. I return to that book again today to raise the question of the purposes of religion. In the context of ...

Dec 28, 2024 · Patriotism, meaning a commitment to one's country, is quite different from a commitment to one's faith tradition. But they share at least this in common: Both require an unswerving willingness to speak the truth, to question and challenge policies and...

A veteran journalist writes about matters of faith and ethics.

Oct 2, 2024 · O ne of the most painful tasks we encounter in life can be admitting that we were wrong about something. Sometimes our mistaken ideas are of little consequence. Who, for instance, cares if you weren't quite right about the middle names of former President George H. W. Bush? (Herbert Walker, not Howard Winston or Hoot Wallaby.) But if you've spent years as a professional theologian telling ...