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March 2015

March 13, 2015

On Darkness and Light

Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong....

March 12, 2015

Revolution, Evolution or Good Disagreement?

This post is prompted by a number of things that have left me pondering how...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

“Flipped” About Lent & Resurrection

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Lent is a time of lengthening, stretching...

February 14, 2015

All About That Faith

Since the day we first enter the world, we face the realities of imperfection. We...

February 08, 2015

Compassion When We Disagree

I was listening the other day to someone talk vehemently about religious people who hold...

January 2015

January 17, 2015

Let’s Talk About Race

This week at my church, Solomon's Porch, while our usual master of ceremonies, Doug Pagitt,...

January 14, 2015

The Path to the Dark Side is Fear

So much fear and worry. I see it's mark all over the church of today....

January 11, 2015

On Sleeping Early and Laundry in the Middle of the Night

“The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

Killjoy Prophets: Shalom, Palestine and our Uncle CUFI

Merry Christmas from the Killjoy Prophets! We love the holidays as much as anyone. Sure,...

December 21, 2014

God Chooses the unexpected

She turned out not to be one of the bookies favourites, indeed no-one had heard...

December 19, 2014

A Highway of Liberation: A #BlackLivesMatter Sermon for Advent

The past month has made it abundantly clear that black people in this country suffer...

December 12, 2014

Christmas Eve, Incarnation, and Knowing Mary

The setting was perfection. Large gothic sanctuary, slate floor, wooden pews with iron candle holders,...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

Chasing the ‘Christian vote’

November saw the mid-term elections in the US and the Rochester by-election here in the...

November 19, 2014

Prayer as Cracking Shins on Altars

Part 1 of 6 in a series on prayer Religious folks all too often relate...

November 16, 2014

An Emergent Episcopalian Shares Some Thoughts about the Church

Many of us in the emergent conversation have left institutional Christianity. We do not trust...

November 14, 2014

An Interstellar God

Yes, I am unashamedly referencing the movie, but that's because I can't get it out...

November 12, 2014

“Kill the Commentators” and if you have time the propositionalists too

Soren Kierkegaard series PART THREE The Soren Kierkegaard (SK) series has sought to present...

November 08, 2014

Walk Towards the Light

A week ago Sunday I led an Adult Christian forum between services at a Denver...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

You can’t give it up, can you?

Several years ago, after what I thought was a horrible ordination process, I decided to...

October 20, 2014

re-imagining God

in recent news an image of Jesus from the 4th century was found in Spain...

September 2014

September 21, 2014

TEDx: Are God & Reality Converging?

I was recently engaged in a spirited conversation about "Convergence Christianity" with my friend and...

September 20, 2014

Religious Bondage as a Barrier to Psychotherapeutic Treatment

Cognitive restructuring becomes a monumental task when attempting to provide psychotherapy to certain populations of...

September 20, 2014

The Re-Indigenisation of faith, indigenous people groups and Scottish Independence

As I write from St Albans just north of London UK the people of Scotland...

September 19, 2014

Learning Action and Contemplation at Richard Rohr’s Living School

Richard Rohr’s new Living School for Action and Contemplation has launched a new synthesis of...

September 12, 2014

Soren Kierkegaard: The First Emergent Thinker? (Part One)

For the past fifteen years the “Emerging Church” has been a source of refuge for...

September 06, 2014

Welcome to the Zoo

Mike Stavlund is a husband, a father, a writer, an emergence practitioner, and an adjunct...

September 03, 2014

An Intro and the Skeptimergent Challenge

As an atheist who works with religious persons, I am honored to be a part...

September 02, 2014

An Autobiography of Hurt & Hope : A Journey From Wounded Skeptic to Wounded Healer

As Holly and I articulated in our post from yesterday, I am excited and eager...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Atheists and Christians Working Together: Me and Ryan Bell’s Online Course

For many here on Emergent Village and Patheos Progressive Christian, working with Christians is second-nature....

May 01, 2014

An Interview with Brian McLaren on Faith, Doubt, and Atheism

I met Brian a few years back when I picked him up from the airport...