God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.