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January 2019

January 28, 2019

Walter Benjamin’s On the Concept of History

I have wanted this essay to be more readily available than it is, so am...

January 27, 2019

How to thrive when your church/denomination is dying and everything you start is sabotaged

In most cases, the church is wasting precious time and capital attempting to redevelop dying...

January 23, 2019

Keywords: Robust, Progressive, Christian, Movement

Perhaps as a Gen Xer I am too influenced by the twisted rise and flourishing...

January 22, 2019

Church for Introverts

Faith communities frequently and inadvertently make life together more difficult for some kinds of people...

January 22, 2019

Gen Xers Will Save the World

Here's why. Only Gen Xers are jaded enough to look at what is going on...

January 21, 2019

Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age: A Review

Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age By Bruce Rogers-Vaughn. Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pp. “We...

January 20, 2019

Best Reads for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

I wonder if the reconciliation paradigm for race relations in the United States is a...

January 18, 2019

Ten Reasons I Love Weird Jesus

Sometimes all I really want to do as a pastor is tell people how much...

January 17, 2019

The baptism of Jesus | God likes you

He just appears at the river ready for baptism. Not solitary or lonely. Rather, a...

January 17, 2019

Tenacity, Advocacy Alongside LGBTQ+, and the Gospel

Yesterday I was chatting with a parishioner during a hospital visit and, wanting to shift...

January 17, 2019

The Silence (and Silencing) of the Clergy

According to my letter of call, my congregation called me to preach and teach. I...

January 06, 2019

Wish You Had More Friends?

All my friends on Facebook told me they loved this recent meme: How do I...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Religious Trends To Watch In 2019

The struggle is real... In some ways, 2018 was rough for communities of faith. If...

December 20, 2018

The Underside Of Christmas

tonight I'm thinking about a Christmas story, maybe a story not frequently told this way,...

December 14, 2018

Pompei | A Poem “For” Advent

A guest Advent post by David Greer. They call this a flash-heated death. The death...

December 03, 2018

To Trump Or Not To Trump: That Is The Question

It turns out publishers have dramatically under-estimated the appetite for books about Donald Trump. Even...

November 2018

November 27, 2018

Where Have All The Churches Gone In New Urbanism?

Growing Into New Urbanism I live in a growing city in a growing region. Fayetteville...

November 25, 2018

Young, Gifted, and Black in the ELCA

Let's call a thing what it is. The denomination in which I serve (the ELCA)...

November 22, 2018

The Heresy of America First

Here's a little pre-turkey political theology for your day. Consider, when someone says "America first"...

November 10, 2018

Climate Change and Moral Meat

Contemporary denial of climate change is not unlike the Galileo affair around 1610. The church...

November 02, 2018

Stranging The 80/20 Rule

Also Known As the Pareto Principle It's sometimes called the Pareto Principle, named after the...

October 2018

October 25, 2018

Reformation (For Dummies): I Was Observing the Reformation Before It Was Cool

Welcome to the 501st anniversary of the Reformation! I'll be your host, Reverend Doctor Clint...

October 15, 2018

Who Cares About Climate Change When We’re All On Oxycontin?

It's been hard lately to make pastoral or theological sense of many things. I don't...

October 10, 2018

What To Do When the Evangelicals Are Evangelizing Your Children

There's a big Evangelical church in most communities. Multi-site. Well known lead pastor. Prominent location...

October 04, 2018

Christians, Care, Creatures, and Creation

Creation and Trinity A lot of Christian theology over the centuries has been focused, not...

September 2018

September 21, 2018

A Visit To Detention And Unaccompanied Minors Centers At the Arizona-Mexico Border

Our first evening in Tucson is a briefing. The room is full of people...

September 15, 2018

Bonhoeffer Loved Luther… Like A Lot

Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther: A Review Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther. Michael P. DeJonge. Oxford University...

September 06, 2018

The Only Way To Read the Bible (Really)

Let's be honest. Most people don't read the Bible. Back in the day, this was...

September 01, 2018

Was Martin Luther A Marxist?

There are two common misunderstandings of Luther's theology. If I can correct both here,...

August 2018

August 23, 2018

Exposing Dan Skogen (In the Nicest Way Possible)

Dan Skogen maintains a web site, Exposing the ELCA, exclusively focused on exposing the heterodoxy...