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May 2015

May 20, 2015

The Real Reason Christianity is Still in Decline

The most recent Pew forum study, which show that numbers of people identifying with any brand...

May 08, 2015

Do Buddhism and Quantum Theory Support the Idea of Original Sin?

Generally, I've rejected the doctrine of Original Sin (the idea that we're all burdened with...

May 05, 2015

THE SHACK: How a Christmas Gift Turned Into a 20-Million-Book Bestseller

See Wm. Paul Young, author of "The Shack" live in Seattle and Portland May 16th...

April 2015

April 26, 2015

Cloud Chaser: My New CD

I'm really excited to share with all of you that I have a new five-song...

April 22, 2015

Worship How-Tos Franklin Graham Blues and New Tattoos (CultureCast)

I tell ya, one week without our cohost Slim Moon around and it all turns...

April 11, 2015

THE SHACK’s Wm. Paul Young: Where’s God When…

Where's God in the midst of loss and suffering? How do we find hope and...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

Why I’m Fasting and Giving Away Half of My Stuff This Month

I felt like I was preparing to punish myself for the month of March, the...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

My Jesus Project for March: Jesus the Ascetic

I thought Jesus the Radical was hard. At least I didn't fast from solid food and...

February 14, 2015

The Gospel of Mark as a Manifesto of Political and Religious Defiance

I'm starting to think that Che Guevara and the Jesus of the Gospel according to...

February 12, 2015

We can’t allow Craig Hicks to be a scapegoat: Reflections about the Chapel Hill shooting

By now we are all aware that three Muslim students were shot dead in Chapel...

February 10, 2015

Learning to Love the Crust Punks and Society’s “Other”

As part of my year-long quest to better, more fully and authentically follow the life...

February 09, 2015

The Zen of Beard Trimming: Stories of Punk Rock, Poverty, and the Search For Peace

C.J. Campbell is a fan of the Homebrewed Culture Cast and reached out to me...

February 04, 2015

When love with limits isn’t love at all: thoughts on exclusion in a time for inclusion

While I'm hard working on following Jesus - My Jesus Project - I've invited my...

January 2015

January 09, 2015

Charlie Hebdo: Comedy as an Act of Courage

I love Jon Stewart. I mean, like "maybe jump the fence" love him. His presence...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

25 Christian Blogs You Should Be Reading (2014 Readers’ Choice)

Welcome to the annual "Blogs you should be reading" blog! If your New Year's resolution...

December 23, 2014

Five Ways I Suck at Following Jesus #MyJesusProject

As you may know by now, I'm starting a new project (ramping up now, starting...

December 22, 2014

My Seizure Diagnosis: Is there a Pony in this Shitpile?

I was sitting on the couch, working on an article on the morning of December...

December 06, 2014

A Miracle Turned Six Books Into a Website (and will help in #Feeding5000) #MyJesusProject

I'm really excited to let folks know that we have a new trade that's taken...

December 03, 2014

Beer, Hymns, Protesters and PostChristian in Tulsa? Oh yeah.

On Christian’s recent “postChristian” book tour stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he caused quite a stir....

December 02, 2014

AJ Jacobs Tells Me How to Be More Like Jesus #MyJesusProject

For the next 14-18 months, I'm doing a sort of "Human Experiment" project in which...

November 2014

November 18, 2014

My Jesus Project Dos and Don’ts (Reader Survey) #MyJesusProject

If you haven't already read from my post yesterday, I'm doing an experiment over the next...

November 17, 2014

Following Jesus…For Real This Time #MyJesusProject

Follow Christian Piatt's 18-month attempt to really follow Jesus. Search the blog category to the...

November 11, 2014

Jesus Exercised His “Right to Die.”

“You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if...

November 10, 2014

CultureCast and TNT cross-pollination experiment

As you know I am in the middle of a book tour for my new...

November 04, 2014

La vita è dolce!

In the middle of my book tour, my wife and I traveled to Rome, Italy to...

November 03, 2014

What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? (AKA: Was Constantine an Ass-hat?”

Last week I spent a few days in Rome with, among others, Tony Jones. As...

October 2014

October 13, 2014

How Others View Christianity (#postChristian book tour trailer)

Here's a video Gregg Brekke (SixView Studios) and I put together for the postChristian book...

October 06, 2014

Lederach’s Peace Train…And Coloring with Satan! (CultureCast)

This week on the CultureCast, we welcome special guest John Paul Lederach, international peace activist...

October 01, 2014

It’s Time! List the Christian Blogs You’re Reading in 2014

It's become an annual tradition that I put out a survey of which Christian blogs...

September 2014

September 26, 2014

Kicking off the postChristian book tour!

My postChristian tour has begun. For the next five or so months I’ll be on...