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September 2014

September 30, 2014

Right Sized: A Quest for Humility by Michaela Kyle

For most of my life I hadn’t the faintest idea what humility was. I would...

September 29, 2014

People of God Rise Up!

It takes a high level of organizing skill to pull off mobilizations like we just...

September 29, 2014

I Just Can’t Quit You

Sometimes I wonder what I’m still doing here in this conversation. Of all the friends...

September 26, 2014

Killjoy Prophets: Troubling and Broadening Our Visions of Liberation

As a Filipina who is passionate about combining racial justice and feminist activism with my...

September 25, 2014

I can’t believe

I don't want to write a post about Ferguson. Or racism. Or even go all-in...

September 24, 2014

Our Pain’s Meeting

Over the past three years I have been in a process of learning, unlearning, and...

September 23, 2014

Black Jesus

I love Black Jesus. I don’t mean the Everlast song—though that is a good one....

September 20, 2014

Remembering James

When my son James was born we considered him our miracle baby. While I had...

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

Gospel Novum

At this time, Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in...

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 16, 2014

Why I Cried at the New Community Conference

I want to be vulnerable with you and share some of my story. I want...

September 15, 2014

That was me.

I will be writing about authentic welcome in the church for a while. Welcome is...

September 14, 2014

Authenticity and Community

I love being part of the emergent movement. I love the space to think, learn,...

September 11, 2014

Perfect Love casts out all Fear. Even Media induced Fear.

Growing up in the Epicenter of all known culture in Georgia, West Georgia, Douglasville to...

September 09, 2014

Why is Fundamentalism So Attractive?

The fashionable place of fundamentalism in history has found a place in the here and...

September 05, 2014

In Full Disclosure

I am not a writer. There, I've said it and it feels good to get...

September 04, 2014

“Homesick,” Being Reflexive, & Letting Remembrance Turn to Hope…

I'm excited - really excited. Stripping away the scant possibility of any cool detachment on...

September 03, 2014

Who’s More Precious in God’s Sight? An Interview with Leroy Barber by Romal Tune

Leroy Barber has dedicated more than 25 years to eradicating poverty, confronting homelessness, restoring local...

September 01, 2014

The Conversation Lives – Welcome to Emerging Voices

Welcome to the next incarnation and rebirth of what was the Emergent Village Voice and...

July 2014

July 07, 2014

A Voice of One’s Own by Lelanda Lee

Social media has leveled the playing field of sharing one’s thoughts. With Facebook, blogs, and...

June 2014

June 07, 2014

Do You Have a Gaudy God?

Raining brimstone, epic deluges, trumpets from heaven...is your God showing off? We have all heard...

May 2014

May 10, 2014

The Worst of Your Tradition: Own It!

I remember having a back-and-forth with a Christian about the violence historically committed by Christians:...

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...

February 2014

February 04, 2014

emergent is dead (to me)

To be honest, I had completely forgotten that I was a contributor to this blog....

November 2013

November 29, 2013

Religion and Hip-Hop in my Youth

“What do you believe in heaven or hell? We don’t believe in heaven cuz’ we’re...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Earth Interrupted: by Bill Dahl … November 1st

Human imagination has always been captured by great mythic stories filled with mysterious wisdom. This...

September 2013

September 03, 2013

Doug Pagitt Radio – Hiatus, Sabbatical, Vacation

This week's edition of DPR is the last broadcast until June 2014. Doug needs to...

August 2013

August 03, 2013

5 Interesting Facts about Women and Religion

Part of my research is focused on how the social sciences relate to "religion" and...

August 02, 2013

Doug Pagitt Radio – Aug 1 2013 – Interview With Mark Scandrette

This week we checked in with Mark Scandrette. Mark co-authored the book Free with his...