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November 2014

November 12, 2014

Reifying God

We humans have a long and storied tradition of turning divinity into a thing. One...

November 08, 2014

The Wall is Breached!

Breachers face the greatest threat in warfare. These are the first wave, the one who...

November 06, 2014

The Grace and Peace Revolution

I think that fifty years from now (if we haven't decimated ourselves as a species),...

November 03, 2014

Frauds, Fakes and our Need for Social Acceptance

Why do people today seek extraordinary experiences? Why do people seek to have experiences...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

Ancestors and the Spirit World

A discussion of how Christianity views, understands and interacts with ancestors in terms of the...

October 17, 2014

What Do the FDA and Christianity Have in Common?

The New York post has an article today by Robert Goldberg which details the inadequacies...

October 14, 2014

Ancestors: Memory and Rememberance

Christians have many ways of honoring ancestors. I realize that what I know about honoring...

October 13, 2014

The Bible: A Cracked and Broken Book

The Fundamentalists and Conservative Evangelicals are right about this: there are only two perspectives, that...

October 12, 2014

Reflecting on Mysticism and the Cross

[The following is a reflection I wrote a decade ago for my website www.preachingpeace.org] II...

October 10, 2014

An Open Letter to My Patheos Prog Xian Colleagues

Dear friends, I am honored to be a little voice amongst such powerful voices. Thank...

October 09, 2014

Emptiness Brings Questions, and Questions, Horizons

This month I am delighted to paired with Lilith Dorsey of the Pagan Channel here...

October 08, 2014

Do You Have the Guts to Follow Jesus?

Christianity is changing because Christendom is dying. Europe became a post-Christian reality in the 20th...

October 06, 2014

Ancestors in Christianity: The Artistic

For the next four Mondays I will be writing a brief post in conjunction with...

October 03, 2014

Reflections of an Adult Child

When I was a little boy I believed in magic. I was 7 or 8...

October 02, 2014

Crunching the Numbers

Yesterday marked the end of my first month of blogging on Patheos. The goal was...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Where I Learned it

I have traveled in many church traditions and read in many more. Looking back I...

September 24, 2014

Blaspheming Jesus

There is a video of US Marines worshipping together that has now gone viral. They...

September 23, 2014

If It Is Bullshit, Just Say So..

In theology there is a term that is used occasionally when it comes to discussing...

September 19, 2014

The Eucharist (4)

This was written for Holy Thursday this past April: Think of all the various elements...

September 19, 2014

The Bible Says…(NOT!)

I had actually started a blog on exactly this topic but my friend Rob Grayson...

September 17, 2014

The Eucharist (3)

From our earliest days as a species we have used violence against innocent (or random)...

September 17, 2014

The Rambo Jesus Must Get Left Behind

For almost all of the twentieth century Fundamentalist Christianity claimed hegemony over 'orthodoxy.' In the...

September 16, 2014

The Eucharist (2)

Eucharist, Holy Communion, and Lord’s Supper. The most important ritual of the church goes by...

September 16, 2014

The Eucharist (1)

For the next five posts I am going to write about the Eucharist. Three of...

September 15, 2014

The Anti-Christ is Alive and Well in American Christianity

From a sermon on I John 4:1-6 I preached a few years ago (with a...

September 15, 2014

They Called Jesus a Blasphemer Didn’t They?

For ten years I have been teaching a Saturday seminar titled "How Jesus Read His...

September 14, 2014

I Almost Got Crucified Yesterday….

Yesterday I led a seminar in Manchester (England) on the Resurrection of Jesus. Of course...

September 13, 2014

FYI: I Still Can’t See Your Comments

I am not avoiding your comments, I still don't have access to them. I am...

September 13, 2014

I Am Not Trying to Gross You Out But…

A teen in Pennsylvania may receive a two year prison sentence for mounting a statue...

September 11, 2014

Mimetic Unity or Christian Unity?

John 17:20-26 I begin today with (an apocryphal) story I have heard with apologies to all of...

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