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2011-08-12T16:29:15+00:00

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Nailing Down the Nature of Sin

Last updated on: August 12, 2011 at 4:29 pm By Christian Piatt

A group at our church has been going through BANNED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE, and the question we took on last Wednesday led to a great discussion, but one that left me wondering: Are some sins worse or better than others? Most of the responses leaned toward “yes,” but that wasn’t the interesting part. When it came down to it, we had a really hard time defining what was sin and what wasn’t. Gary Peluso-Verdend suggested in his response that... Read more

2011-08-11T16:51:13+00:00

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Stuff my son says

Last updated on: August 11, 2011 at 4:51 pm By Christian Piatt

By Christian Piatt To say my son is a wellspring of quotable quotes would be playing down his uniqueness of word choice. In fact, he’s such a great source of material that I’ve written two books about him so far. The first book, called PregMANcy: A Dad, a Little Dude and a Due Date, is due out in spring, 2012. Each chapter begins with a quote from Mattias, who is seven. He’s ridiculously bright, a musical prodigy, but he struggles... Read more

2011-08-09T15:09:02+00:00

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Meeting Hitler in Heaven

Last updated on: August 9, 2011 at 3:09 pm By Christian Piatt

I get asked all kinds of questions when I go to speak to groups about faith. One of the most common has to do with my understanding of Hell. So I tell them a story about a monkey. The story goes that if you put something inside a jar that a monkey wants, they’ll reach in and grab onto it with singular determination. The problem is, they can’t get their hand out of the jar while also hanging on to... Read more

2011-08-06T22:00:25+00:00

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An anti-emergent manifesto & my response

Last updated on: August 6, 2011 at 10:00 pm By Christian Piatt

In my previous blog post, I laid out Kevin DeYoung’s (co-author of Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)) criteria for being an emergent Christian.I’m not sure why exactly he compiled this list, other than to help promote his anti-emergent book. But I found the whole list very entertaining. And a lot of it is true, at least as it applies to me. But DeYoung’s criticisms of emergents raised a lot of thoughts for me, so I... Read more

2011-08-06T21:52:34+00:00

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You might be emergent if…

Last updated on: August 6, 2011 at 9:52 pm By Christian Piatt

If there’s one thing emergent Christians can’t stand, it’s being categorized, or worse, stereotyped. It kinda goes against the whole idea that the emergent movement can’t be nailed down, quantified, etc. The funny thing is, most folks who are emergent would deny it if asked, not out of shame, but rather out of principle. It’s kind of like the old saying, “If you meet The Buddha along the road, kill him.” if it’s distilled down to a handful of component... Read more

2011-08-03T20:08:01+00:00

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Banned Questions Interview with Becky Garrison

Last updated on: August 3, 2011 at 8:08 pm By Christian Piatt

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2011-07-23T15:06:19+00:00

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Un-American in the name of Jesus?

Last updated on: July 23, 2011 at 3:06 pm By Christian Piatt

Un-American in the name of Jesus? By Christian Piatt (Originally printed in PULP) I used to go to a lot of basketball games with my dad in Dallas. We have both been enthusiastic Mavericks fans for almost three decades, so you can imagine how excited I was when they won their first NBA championship this year. YES! Anyhow, before each game they go through the typical ritual of playing the Star Spangled Banner, and I would always stand up, face... Read more

2011-07-19T18:47:22+00:00

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Banned Questions series set for July 20th & 27th at Brentwood (via Brentwood Christian Church)

Last updated on: July 19, 2011 at 6:47 pm By Christian Piatt

Here’s the article about a series this congregation is doing with BANNED QUESTIONS, culminating with a discussion I’ll join in at their church in Springfield next Wednesday, the 27th. Check it out! Might give you some ideas of what you can be doing too. All of us have questions, we just aren’t always sure we can bring them up in church. Here at Brentwood, we want to change that. Based on a new series of books by Chalice Press (including... Read more

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2011-06-30T21:17:43+00:00

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Interview with Christian Piatt – Crazy Liberals…and Conservatives

Last updated on: June 30, 2011 at 9:17 pm By Christian Piatt

Here’s an interview I did recently with Zachary Bailes of the website, “Crazy Liberals…and Conservatives.” We talked about the State of the Christian Left and much that faces organized religion in a challenging century ahead. Listen as I interview Christian Piatt author of Banned Questions About the Bible and forthcoming book Banned Questions About Jesus.We discuss the power of questions, progressive Christianity, and the need to share your narrative. Listen. Enjoy. Engage. Respond. Link to the original page and podcast: Interview with Christian... Read more

2011-06-22T16:15:09+00:00

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Evangelism, Missional Church & God’s Sense of Humor

Last updated on: June 22, 2011 at 4:15 pm By Christian Piatt

A little more than twenty years ago, I walked out of a church for what I was pretty sure would be the last time. For a decade, I held to that assumption, but it turns out that God works, even among us heretics. I’m not going to lean on the whole “everything happens for a reason” cliche because I don’t believe everything does happen for a reason. But the fact that I’m a presenter in Nashville at the New Evangelism... Read more

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