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December 2019

December 27, 2019

The Top Ten Theological Stories Of 2019

A look back at 2019 and the stories that most indicate how we are seeing...

December 19, 2019

Christmas decorating is biblical (kind of)

If you have been wondering whether or how all the Christmas decorating you have been...

December 19, 2019

All I Want for Christmas is a Good Bible

"What bible do you recommend I give as a gift for Christmas? My friend/family member...

December 14, 2019

That Time A Progressive Lutheran Trans Youth Gets Their Own Marvel Comic

Progressive Christian Transgender Youth Last summer Rebekah was a featured speaker at the ELCA's annual...

December 05, 2019

Your Church Should Plan For 2040: Here’s Why

Are you thinking about church planning for 2040? In our 24-hour world hyper-mediated culture it's...

December 02, 2019

A Dungeons & Dragons Story For Progressive Christians

Either you play D&D, or you want to play D&D, or your child plays, or...

December 02, 2019

The Best Albums of 2019

As promised, here's a "best albums of 2019" list for your listening pleasure. If you're...

November 2019

November 20, 2019

Someone Read The Gospel Of Matthew Before Advent… Then This Happened…

Matthew in the Lectionary A little bit of geek with your gospel this week. Please...

November 18, 2019

The Greatest Artist That God Has Ever Created #KanyeWest #IAmaGod

I have my doubts as to whether I am the appropriate person to write a...

November 16, 2019

The Unimpeachable Donald Trump

Let's start with a non-moralizing observation. Donald Trump believes he is above the law, that...

November 15, 2019

Hans Georg Hamann: The Hipster Wizard of the North

Might you, dear reader, countenance the revealing of my secret identity as the simulacrum of...

November 09, 2019

Three Reasons I’m Neither Spiritual Nor Religious

This week I sat on a panel on LGBTQ+ spirituality organized by the multicultural office...

November 04, 2019

“Golden Rule 2020” Is Spiritual Gaslighting

A pastor sits down in a counseling session. One spouse verbally abuses the other, gaslights...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

95 Theses for the 21st Century Church

Disputation of Doctor Clint Schnekloth on the Power and Efficacy of Reformations (2014) Martin Luther...

October 29, 2019

Some Notes on Workers Regaining Power

I've spent the last couple of weeks reading Steven Greenhouse's Beaten Down, Worked Up: The...

October 27, 2019

What is our Reformation?

2019 marks the 502nd anniversary of the Reformation. October 31, 1517 was the year Martin...

October 26, 2019

Solving the problems of church in a post-program era

"Surveying a congregation about the kinds of programs they want will not help congregations be...

October 14, 2019

Liberal Churches, Fragile Seminaries, and Aging Social Movements

“Faith, however, returns to its Sunday school every time it nails its language into positive...

October 13, 2019

Analog and the Analogia Entis

My friend Jonathan Rundman, in a song about receiving a mix-tape in the mail, sings:...

October 12, 2019

Bonhoeffer On American Christianity Without Reformation

"God did not grant a Reformation to American Christendom. He gave strong revivalist preachers, [people]...

October 12, 2019

The Myth of Narrative

So here's the thing. Lots of people seem to be talking story and narrative these...

October 03, 2019

What is political theology?

There are multiple ways to come at defining political theology, which is what I'm trying...

October 02, 2019

Trump’s Devastating Dismantling of the Church’s Ministry of Resettlement

Imagine if you would this scenario: the federal government, at the instruction of the president,...

September 2019

September 20, 2019

No One Will Tell You This One Trick For Great Customer Service

Customer service is really hit or miss, especially online. I know I much prefer walking...

September 19, 2019

Confessing to Plants #plantsofInstagram

Confessing To Plants Somehow it's absolutely not surprising at all that the same day I...

September 11, 2019

Pastoring In Public

I'm protesting at a detention center for unaccompanied minors. I’m in my collar, the full...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

Ice Cream Doesn’t Melt In Tucson

If you ask where to run mid-afternoon in Tucson front desk will kindly suggest treadmills...

August 26, 2019

Labor Day And The Elaine Massacre Of 1919

September 30th, 2019 marked the 100th anniversary of the Elaine Massacre, often characterized as the...

August 26, 2019

A Blessing For Those Beginning Fall Semester

A wandering Aramean was my ancestor (Deuteronomy 26). Where were they going without ever knowing...

August 19, 2019

Preaching In The Purple Zone: Ministry In The Red Blue Divide: A Review

Megan Rapinoe, in her now famous speech in New York after winning the World Cup,...