This article provides a detailed autobiographical account of two oddly coupled
things. On the one hand, the author has been firmly committed to theology without walls
since early childhood, including high school publications in a church newsletter and comingdown
to a three-volume philosophical theology based on world religions, vulnerable
to all perspectives. On the other hand, the author has been actively and deeply religious,
including ordination in the United Methodist Church and being the dean of the United
Methodist School of Theology at Boston University. Being religious in a particular way is
compatible with pursuing theology without walls
