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August 2012

August 01, 2012

Authentic Jesus Generations: Woodstock to Wild Goose by Randy Woodley

Although there is not much in general these days that one can say about the...

July 2012

July 15, 2012

do christians (h)ate the world? OR (the european civil wars)

Any notion that we do not belong to this earth, that Earth is...

July 10, 2012

The Future of Seminary

Sunday night after church I was out with a few fellow Journey-ers and we were...

July 03, 2012

Islamic banking: Is it closer to Luther and Jesus than Christian banking?

Today is the day that a men-in-black team called Moneyval gather to "discuss a report...

July 02, 2012

July in an Election Year

One of the few things in this life that I really do try to be...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Getting the Courage We Long For

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice...

June 05, 2012

An Assessment of Great Worth

Some several weeks ago now, I spent a laughter-filled few days in Tellico Community, in...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Do I Pray?

Do I pray, Tony Jones wants to know. He asks the question as part of...

May 23, 2012

Is Violent Racism Making a Comeback or Has it Ever Gone Away? by Randy Woodley

Many White people thought we had racism almost licked in America. We would all at...

May 18, 2012

Fashioning Compassion

In my attempt to understand the unrecorded aspects of lives of women in the Bible,...

May 10, 2012

On My Mind These Days

Every single year, one of the great mysteries of Easter for me has to do...

April 2012

April 29, 2012

Lines at Easter

I am an amateur poet. Well, more precisely I scribble on paper and end up...

April 11, 2012

the c(h)urch is killing the (o)ther [Video]

INTRO: the other is that which is different to us. that which is foreign or...

April 10, 2012

Am I Fallen or Falling; Am I Depraved or Lost?

I remember when I was a child having this dream that I was falling into...

April 06, 2012

7 April 2012

7 April 2012 Holy Saturday… ...what a strange name for a day. Yet it has...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

There Is No Virtual Ecclesia

In the early 50’s when Robert Schuller and others across the nation combined a growing...

March 28, 2012

Strange Christianity Made in America: Part II by Randy Woodley

The customs of the Nacirema, a still very poorly understood tribal group, came to the...

March 24, 2012

OMG—My Brackets are SO BUSTED!

This blog post is SO late, but I decided to write it using March Madness—the...

March 23, 2012

Mark Driscoll and Accountability

A number of years ago I was surprised by a phone call from someone high...

March 21, 2012

A Seat at The Table: Negative Space, Part II, The Art of Doing Nothing

I wrote last month about the value of 'negative space' in worship settings, but the...

March 14, 2012

Why We Can’t Win In Afghanistan by Randy Woodley

(Note: I am interrupting my own series on Strange Religion: American Dualism because of the...

March 13, 2012

Perspective

I wrote this poem in an attempt to explore the life of Bathsheba. I wondered...

March 08, 2012

Atheists Promoting Bible Study?

You know we're living in an odd world when atheists encourage people to read scripture....

March 08, 2012

Facebook is Helping Me Grieve

By Jana Riess In the news last week I read a story about a mother...

March 06, 2012

Disciplining Church Discipline

As people defend Mars Hill's policy on church discipline and consider those similar policies of...

March 05, 2012

Is Scientific Evidence Modern-Day Scripture?

The following is cross-posted from my HuffPost blog (where it has received 200+ comments). It is...

March 01, 2012

The Prayers of Lent

PATHEOS – March 2012 Just a few days before Lent began this year and in...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Phantom Deity Disorder

The other day while having dinner with friends I subconsciously reached my hand toward the...

February 28, 2012

Conversation with John Shelby Spong on Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World

Here is my conversation with Bishop John Shelby Spong on his book "Re-Claiming the Bible...

February 27, 2012

Wisdom From Kierkegaard

This Quote by Kierkegaard is rocking my world the last few weeks. The matter is...