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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...

August 15, 2018

Youth Culture and Progressive Faith-Based Organizing

I've been thinking a lot these days about youth culture and progressive faith-based organizing. Maybe...

August 10, 2018

Can You Find God On the Screens On the Youth Trip?

Let me tell you a story. This summer I, some youth, and a bunch of...

August 03, 2018

The Mysterious, Magical Mind of Nate Powell

How does this happen? An artist, Nate Powell, who holds the distinction as the first...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Is Our Prophetic Too On the Nose? | Considering Strategic Obliquity

Although I love nuance, and appreciate irony, I am by disposition overly direct and sometimes...

July 31, 2018

What Will Help Immigrants When the President Is A Racist Liar?

Let's talk about immigrants and the president a bit more. You've probably seen the video,...

July 26, 2018

From the Temple to the Church

Agency and colonialism in Hawaii If you drive up to the northwest corner of the...

July 26, 2018

Illegal Theologians

I walked into our campus bible study at the University of Arkansas with a reader's...

July 02, 2018

The Heresy of “Respectability”

Here's a thought experiment: I'm sure you know churches that host soup kitchens, or groups...

June 2018

June 21, 2018

When God Shows Up At ICE

Today we held a rally out front of the ICE offices in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I...

June 21, 2018

Baptism and Immigration

[Originally published in the Lutheran Forum in 2007. Can't believe I've been working this beat...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

About

Welcome to Lutheran Confessions, a long-term blog project of Clint Schnekloth. Thanks for joining a...

May 19, 2018

How To Do All the Christian Things

A lot of people in my life and in my parish are new to Christianity...

May 16, 2018

One day [pastoring] in middle America

This is not going to be short. But it will be as honest and clear...

January 2018

January 10, 2018

The Climate Change | Refugee Connection

One of the salient features of climate change is how it affects all of life....

November 2017

November 02, 2017

What if every day is a tragedy?

The American Psychology Association just published their Stress in America™ survey. It's not good. More...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

What We Have Meant by Resurrection

As a pastor and theologian, I'm not sure there's anything I can do that might...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The pernicious way Ronnie Floyd is wrong on refugees

I invite you to read two public statements on refugee resettlement published in the last...

January 19, 2017

Three quotes that illumine all of Scripture

Before his death, Luther famously scribbled a few notes. He wrote: Wir sein Pettler. Hoc est...

January 09, 2017

Kicking off the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 50th anniversary of Good Shepherd

In 1983, the world observed the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s birth. I was 11....

January 01, 2017

A quote for your New Year from one of the philosophers we will need this year

"I am a psychological and historical structure. Along with existence, I received a way of...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Best Books of 2016

So many books, so little time, but these are the best I read in 2016. There...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

The Refugee Resettlement Syllabus

As we have launched Canopy NWA, many volunteers have asked for a refugee resettlement reading...

November 19, 2016

Election Apocalyptic: Revealing Signs of God’s Kingdom as anti-dote to white nationalism

I think it is important to share with readers of this column that many,...

November 17, 2016

Dis-establishmentarian Jesus

I'm enough of a dis-establishmentarian to have been perhaps more ready than some for the...

November 15, 2016

To what is God calling the North American progressive church in this moment?

"The role of progressive clergy and nuns in creating sanctuaries and in demanding accountability from...

October 2016

October 13, 2016

Eric Metaxas is a tool

Bonhoeffer would be rolling over in his grave, if that were a thing. Here's a...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Bondage, discipline, and the ecclesial trap of voluntaristic identity fronts

"Secularity is helpfully analyzed in terms of an earlier national spatial scale and media culture...

September 15, 2016

The real presence of the gods

Some books are more present than others. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press prints books,...

August 2016

August 11, 2016

4 ways you can save the church now (and they’re not what you think)

Walter Benjamin worked thirteen years on Das Passagen-Werk (The Arcades Project), beginning in Paris in...