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March 2013

March 20, 2013

Welcome to Progressive Christianity, Rob Bell!

A Review of Rob Bell’s new book: What We Talk About When We Talk About...

March 19, 2013

WWFS? (What Would Francis Say?)

By Anne Howard, Executive Director The Beatitudes Society Francis. Francis is on my mind right...

March 13, 2013

This Is Not a Pipe – and other opinions…

I'm involved in an initiative here at USC to encourage the use of contemplative and...

March 08, 2013

Free Will or Lively Imagination?

A week ago, I attended a conference at Chapman University in Orange, CA, devoted to...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

The Gift: A poem for Lent

(This poem, which I wrote during Lent in 1981, appears in my book, BIRDLIKE AND...

February 18, 2013

The Questions of Lent: To Give Up or Not to Give Up?

Our Facebook Lenten Question of the Week series launched last week with this: How Might a...

February 12, 2013

Why I’m Giving Up Politics for Lent

By Jeff Fulmer Okay, this is an easy one. I was getting tired of all...

February 11, 2013

Walking Through Lent: Progressive Christians on the Journey

Once considered the liturgical purview of the Catholics, Lent - the 40-day period from Ash...

February 11, 2013

A Common Man: A Tribute to Richard Twiss

This weekend I was set to speak in Detroit. A few hours before the event,...

February 06, 2013

New Handbooks on Progressive Christianity: Book Reviews

WHY WEREN'T WE TOLD? A Handbook on 'progressive' Christianity, edited by Rex Hunt and John Smith (Polebridge...

February 05, 2013

The Passionate Jesus: A Q&A with Author Peter Wallace

How often have you stifled a deeply emotional response to a person or situation -...

February 01, 2013

The Arts of Manhood

This past week, I've engaged in a couple of intense conversations about manhood in America....

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Worse than an Unbeliever: An Atheist Grapples with the Bible

It’s been a long time since I’ve approached something like this. I “came out” as...

January 21, 2013

An Extremist for Love: A Sermon for MLK, Jr. Day

[Editor's Note: This was the sermon preached at my UCC church yesterday, in honor of...

January 19, 2013

Perfect Love Casts Out Guns

The recent mass murder of children in a Connecticut school has resulted in at least...

January 15, 2013

Emergence Christianity: A New Day

As a young pastor, one who will serve, pray, create, and organize in my city...

January 15, 2013

Jay Bakker Knows Why We Need Batman

By Ben Howard I’d heard of Jay Bakker before, but I’d never met him. I’d...

January 15, 2013

Emergence Christianity ’13: Questions

By Terry Ramone Smith I had a great weekend in Memphis. Saturday started off with...

January 14, 2013

Emergence Christianity ’13: The Second Day

By Troy Bronsink The reverberations continued at day two of Emergence Christianity 2013 in Memphis......

January 14, 2013

Emergence Christianity: A Conversation or a Movement?

For as long as I’ve been involved with Emergent, we’ve always struggled to identify what...

January 12, 2013

A Question for Phyllis Tickle

By Chris Smith I have been at the Emergence Christianity gathering in Memphis for the last...

January 12, 2013

Emergence Christianity ’13: The First Day

By Troy Bronsink Phyllis Tickle said it felt much like a valedictorian address, as she...

January 12, 2013

The Beehive and the Anthill; The Spider and the Starfish

By Terry Smith This weekend, I am in Memphis with 450 of my closest friends...

January 11, 2013

Emergence Christianity ’13: I’m Nervous

Editor's Note: Emergence Christianity '13 has convened in Memphis. Some 450 people are gathering this...

January 09, 2013

Emergence Christianity 2013: A Q&A with Tony Jones

This weekend, popular Emergent Christian leaders Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt are hosting a National Conversation...

January 08, 2013

The Gospel of Grantham

If you want to know what a nerd I am, I’m going to tell you....

January 08, 2013

Emergence Christianity: Honoring and Bending Tradition

Most Sunday afternoons between our College Coffee Hour (at Starbucks) and heading off to the...

January 08, 2013

Emergence Christianity: A Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

I'm headed to Memphis this week for the National Conversation About Emergence Christianity with Phyllis Tickle...

January 03, 2013

The Resolutions of Jesus

Traditionally this is a time to learn from our mistakes and commit ourselves to do...

January 02, 2013

What Would Jesus Say to the NRA?

What does the birth of the baby Jesus 2000 years ago have to offer the...