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April 2020

April 22, 2020

Jesus Would Demand A Green New Deal

Reverend Jonathan W. Barker was kind enough to send a copy of his book, Jesus...

April 21, 2020

Apostolic Succession Is Virtual Reality

Let's be clear from the start: metaphorically equating the two complex things named in the...

April 21, 2020

Minecraft | FaithCraft | MineChurch

Christian communities can learn quite a bit from playing Minecraft or observing or participating in...

April 20, 2020

Playing Family Games During Quarantine: After Online Worship, It’s #2 For Faith Development

It started with Hearthstone. After a lengthy (twenty year) hiatus from role-playing or video game...

April 17, 2020

Best New Albums of 2020

Music is one of the things keeping me centered through this time. Wondering what y'all...

April 15, 2020

Why I’m Voting For Biden (But I Can See Why You Wouldn’t): A Christian Perspective

Once women won the right to vote, Dorothy Day never voted. Spending time recently with...

April 11, 2020

From Christus Victor To Luther: An Excerpt From John Caputo

"The metaphorical view is not the one that was held in the New Testament (which...

April 09, 2020

Demythologizing the Meal of Jesus this Maundy Thursday Under Pandemic

This morning I'm watching a PBS special with my kids about the Lutherans Tycho Brahe...

April 03, 2020

The Lutheran Confessions Resoundingly Support Virtual Communion

Let's go point by point through the Lutheran confessional documents in order to see what...

March 2020

March 28, 2020

Social Justice, Distributed Church, and Pandemic: What To Do When The Church Can’t “Meet”

I'm going to keep this short and simple, because none of us are operating at...

March 24, 2020

Against The Bloviating Justifiers Of Eucharistic Fasting And Opponents of Virtual Communion

With enforced quarantines as a result of a global pandemic, church leaders across the Lutheran...

March 23, 2020

A Slacker/Gen X Thesis On Lo-Fi Media And Pandemic

All of our curve-flattening and social distancing and use of new distributed media will mainstream...

March 20, 2020

A Terribly Geeky Sacramental Theological Case For “Virtual” And De-Clericized Holy Communion

Fair warning: this is a theological argument internal to the sacramental theology of one rather...

March 17, 2020

A Livestream Communion Liturgy During COVID-19

As a result of curve-flattening measures during this pandemic, liturgical worship communities across the country...

March 14, 2020

Resources For Doing Church Well During A Pandemic

None of us have done this before. It's still incredibly surreal. And the situation is......

March 10, 2020

Lenpturim: How to Observe both Lent and Purim

Guest columnist: Nik Robbins... to read his amazing blog and laugh (or learn) some more,...

March 05, 2020

So You Don’t Agree With Everything In The Creed? You’re In Good Company!

This is NOT a progressive post repudiating the ancient creeds of the church (Apostles', Nicene,...

February 2020

February 29, 2020

On Religious Liberty

On Religious Liberty When developing a vocabulary of culture and society, difficulties arise. It is...

February 21, 2020

Why Church Growth Is Anti-Progressive: A Thesis

If you survey the North American religious landscape, the evidence is pretty clear. The mega-churches...

February 10, 2020

The Long Southern Strategy: A Review

It's one of the blessings in my life that the authors of The Long Southern...

February 06, 2020

Reimagining and Mediating a Progressive Christian South

The following essay is excerpted from the recently released Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case...

February 04, 2020

A Complete Church Guide to Reaching Your Neighborhood

I've got a pastor friend who is spectacular at being in her neighborhood for good....

February 01, 2020

The Christian Case For Legalizing Recreational Marijuana

First, full disclaimer: I have never used marijuana in my life, and have rarely even...

January 2020

January 26, 2020

Listening To Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale And The Testaments Back To Back

During Christmas break, I spent the long drive to family in Iowa listening to Margaret...

January 22, 2020

What is the gospel? Hint: It’s not what most Christians think it is

If you asked preachers and many Christians to name the "main thing" for the church,...

January 10, 2020

For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion In A Shattered World… A Review

I apologize first for a bit of throat-clearing before we get to a review of For...

January 10, 2020

Best 15 Books About Being a Pastor

There are many great books about pastoral ministry. Memoirs and autobiographies are particularly well-suited to...

January 06, 2020

Which Should a Christian Use? Their Horoscope, Hogwart’s Sorting Hat, Or the Enneagram?

For some reason that remains obscure to me, clergy and some church leaders have a...

January 06, 2020

Hosting Shane Claiborne in 2020

I first gained awareness of Shane Claiborne when he emerged as a leader in the...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

ELCA presiding bishop responds to anti-Semitic incidents in New York

ELCA presiding bishop responds to anti-Semitic incidents in New York 12/30/2019 9:25:00 AM December 30,...