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August 2019

August 13, 2019

The New Moral Minority

Forgetting the "Protest" in "Protest-ant" Lately I've been wondering how Protestants forgot the "protest" in...

August 12, 2019

A Vision For The ELCA As the First Church To Declare Itself A Sanctuary Denomination

9.5 Theses On Being A Sanctuary Denomination "[One] who will not help or support others...

August 11, 2019

ELCA First Sanctuary Denomination, But Then: That Time A White Male Pastor Waits Two Days To Deflate A Radical Denominational Statement

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit...

August 07, 2019

Five Steps In Declaring Your Church A Sanctuary Congregation

So, you'd like your church to declare itself part of the new sanctuary network. You...

August 06, 2019

So heavy a focus on this earthly life

What's up with the progressive spiritual tradition's almost dogmatic focus on this earthly life? As...

August 05, 2019

Reviewing Krister Stendahl’s Roots of Violence (including an interview with John Stendahl)

Some books are books, intended from inception for print. Other books arise out of vital...

August 03, 2019

How do you change the minds of white supremacists?

"I submit that the ultimate religious question today is no longer the Reformation's "How can...

August 03, 2019

So when can you eat the meal Jesus instituted, and who serves it?

Lately I've been chatting with colleagues in my denomination about our theology of the Eucharist....

August 03, 2019

How do you know you are saved?

If you've got it all figured out, and are settled on all the answers, you're...

August 03, 2019

Why Is the Old Testament So Bloody?

Whenever readers embark on a bible reading journey beginning in Genesis and ending in Revelation,...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

The Beauty of Idolatry

In short, precisely that which was generally considered piety (religion or eusebeia), reverencing the many gods,...

July 24, 2019

Lawton, Oklahoma: Four Quartets

τοῦ λόγου δὲ ἐόντος ξυνοῦ ζώουσιν οἱ πολλοί ὡς ἰδίαν ἔχοντες φρόνησιν I. Burnt Sage...

July 17, 2019

What Does It Mean To Be Lutheran?

Because I pastor a Lutheran Church in Arkansas, and because many people who come to...

July 04, 2019

I Do NOT Pledge Allegiance To ANY Flag

First, there's the law of Israel, exemplified most clearly in the Decalogue, which prohibits the...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

A Church Resolution To Divest (Or Conduct Radical Shareholder Advocacy) Against #Trumpcamps And For-Profit Prisons

A resolution on detention divestiture and shareholder advocacy Whereas, “Don't mistreat any foreigners who live...

June 20, 2019

Welcoming Refugees: It’s A Matter Of Faith

June 20th marks Refugee Day – the 18th time the United Nations-designated day has been...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

Three Risky And Realistic Strategies For Breaking Imaginative Gridlock (Like Breaking the Spelling Bee)

Edwin Friedman said there are basically three characteristics common to any system that becomes imaginatively...

May 07, 2019

We’re Still In Easter, But Ascension Is Coming

St. Paul Lutheran, Davenport, Iowa The Ascension Of It All Word association game: Say...

May 02, 2019

Living and Managing Without Reference to God

Let’s begin with a simple premise. The secular is more than one thing, but for...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

The Sovereignty of Christ, the Avengers, and the Infinity of Thanos

* No spoilers here, this is a theological reflection on the metaphysical context for the...

April 24, 2019

All The Things To Know About Church Growth

Truth #1: Nobody knows why some churches grow and others don't. Church growth shares sociological...

April 17, 2019

Notre Dame And Holy Week (With More Than A Nod To Walter Benjamin)

"Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element:...

April 17, 2019

Why the church is failing at new media

Is that what they teach you in seminary? Definitely a frequent question asked of pastors,...

April 10, 2019

These books changed my life

Emily Dickinson famously remarked, "If I feel physically as if the top of my head...

April 08, 2019

Finding your voice in politics, religion, and social media: from private devotion to public theology

“The signal virtue of Christianity is that there is a version of it for the...

April 08, 2019

How much time should you spend at church per week?

My answer: At least six hours. Here’s why. First, and most obviously, Christians are called...

April 01, 2019

Easter Theses

(Some Things To Ponder This Holy Week) Holy Week is something to live, to experience,...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

Church By the Numbers

I wish I could report that in my years of pastoral ministry, I've come up...

March 26, 2019

Holding the Bible Lightly

How we interpret our sacred Scriptures (hermeneutics) matters quite a lot. I served a congregation...

March 25, 2019

Whether Corporations, Too, Can Be Saved

“Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their...