Daniel P. (Danny) Coleman

I've known several transgender people in the course of my life. You quite possibly have too, and may not even know it. They're not...

  Yes, Donald Trump is despicable, and has been that way for a long, long time. But he's just a man. What really concerns me is the en...

  I've been watching and reading about the recent McCarthyesque hearings on Capitol Hill regarding antisemitism on college campuses. Lo...

  The most evil and tragic of human enterprises is war. Memorial Day should be a day of somber reflection on the terrible (and almost always...

  When I was a conservative evangelical Christian, I went along with the party line (on any number of issues) because I was constantly being...

  I wrote what's below as a reply to a comment in a recent Facebook post of mine regarding the Uvalde, TX school massacre. The commente...

  For a significant chunk of my adult life I was a fundamentalist, charismatic Christian--part of the Vineyard churches. Some good came out...

  Two caveats I try to always remember: 1. Beware of false dichotomies. 2. Beware of false equivalencies.

  Today is Palm Sunday, a day that commemorates Jesus's "triumphal entry" into Jerusalem. This was an incredibly subversive ac...

  The other night my reading of Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark took me off onto a tangent of learnin...

  I have this weird thing where if I have blood drawn while sitting up I am likely to pass out. It isn't an aversion to blood; it's...

I sometimes joke that I entered seminary as an evangelical Christian and departed as an agnostic Buddhist. It's an oversimplification,...