Six Surprising Ways Jesus Changed The World by John Ortberg for the Huffington Post Both President Obama and Governor Romney have had to repeatedly address their views about an itinerant rabbi who lived 2000 years ago. But why does anyone care? Yale historian Jeroslav Pelikan wrote, "Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of Western Culture for almost 20 centuries.

A Response to Ross Douthat by Diana Butler Bass for the Huffington Post The real question is not "Can liberal Christianity be saved?" The real question is: Can Christianity be saved? Liberal Christians experienced this decline sooner than their conservative kin, thus giving them a longer, more sustained opportunity to explore what faith might mean to twenty-first century people. Introspective liberal churchgoers returned to the core of the Christian vision: Jesus' command to "Love God and love y...

"Bono, Facebook and the Challenge of Following the Jesus of the Poor" by Kristi York Wooten and Joshua Case for the Huffington Post Neither scholars nor pastors across any tradition will give you a straight answer on what Jesus would do with the kind of wealth Bono has accumulated. And let's be clear, neither the power nor politics of Jesus' day would have afforded even the idea that there would be such inherited or shared wealth 2000 years later among the descendants of the small sect of Jews w...

by the Rev. Malcolm Boyd from the Huffington Post In Christian art, including Michelangelo and Hollywood biblical films, the maleness of God has long been highlighted. Seldom has there been a depiction of deity or spiritual strength that remotely suggested a woman like Eleanor Roosevelt or Marian Anderson, Helen Keller or Barbara Jordan.