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December 2012

December 22, 2012

Birthing: An Advent Reflection

[Editor's Note: This is the last in a series of Advent reflections from new mother...

December 20, 2012

The Consciousness of Christmas

This past Saturday night, my wife Roberta and I stood with a group of people...

December 18, 2012

Win a Copy of Holy Nomad!

This month at the Patheos Book Club, we’re giving away 25 copies of Matt Litton’s...

December 17, 2012

Traveling Advent to Epiphany: Week 4

Traveling Advent to Epiphany: Roadside Assistance from Luke and Matthew A Meditation on the Gospel...

December 13, 2012

Voices of Advent: Jack Caputo on Expectation

Popular theoblogger and pastor Tripp Fuller of the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast caught up with a few of...

December 12, 2012

Changing Actions, Changing Hearts

(My wife Roberta and I hope that THIS IS MY SONG will be sung at...

December 09, 2012

Traveling Advent to Epiphany: Week 3

Traveling Advent to Epiphany, Part 3: Roadside Assistance from Luke and Matthew A Meditation on...

December 07, 2012

Voices of Advent: Diana Butler Bass on Waiting on God

Popular theoblogger and pastor Tripp Fuller of the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast caught up with a few of...

December 05, 2012

Mary’s Rebirth

On one seemingly ordinary day over 2000 years ago, a seemingly ordinary girl had an...

December 03, 2012

Traveling Advent to Epiphany: Week 2

Traveling Advent to Epiphany: Roadside Assistance from Luke and Matthew A Meditation on the Gospel...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Promises, Promises

What's a promise worth, any more? Surely one of the most peculiar phenomena in America's...

November 30, 2012

Voices of Advent: Ted Jennings on Awakening to the Impossible

Popular theoblogger and pastor Tripp Fuller of the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast caught up with a few of...

November 27, 2012

Top 10 Reasons Christians Should Stop Whining About Secular Xmas

“Keep Christ in Christmas!” “Jesus is the reason for the season!” “It’s OK to say...

November 26, 2012

Traveling Advent to Epiphany: Roadside Assistance from Luke and Matthew

A Meditation on the Gospel for Advent One: Luke 21:25-36 “You get to your destination twice...

November 20, 2012

Post-Election Reasons To Be Thankful

By Jeff Fulmer Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on what we have to be...

November 15, 2012

The Flow: A Meditation

One day, several years ago, I took our dog Kai for a walk. Just outside...

November 06, 2012

Following the Holy Nomad: A Video Interview with Author Matt Litton

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure:...

November 05, 2012

Mere Luck and The Hobbit: A Video Interview with Tolkien Scholar Devin Brown

On the 75th Anniversary of the publishing of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved tale The Hobbit, we caught up...

November 05, 2012

Jesus for President 2012

By Chris Haw and Shane Claiborne It was way back in 2004 that the spark...

November 01, 2012

Time for Christians to Make a Choice

By Jeff Fulmer I’m ready for this election to be over. As with most hotly contested...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Why I’m Voting For…

After spending the last two years exploring a non-partisan Christian ethic of politics in the...

October 29, 2012

Outrageous Conception

"Life is that gift from God. And I think even when life begins in that...

October 25, 2012

Billy Graham, Paul Ryan, and Biblical Principles

Recently, Billy Graham’s organization purchased full-page ads in a number of major USA newspapers calling...

October 24, 2012

Faces of Fasting

This post is adapted from a talk I gave at USC's annual Hassan Hathout Fastathon...

October 22, 2012

The Key Issues Are Not Issues

This election—as in the last, and the one before that—we are told that certain issues...

October 19, 2012

The Heart of Progressive Christianity: A Q&A with Marcus Borg

Marcus Borg is the reason I fell back in love with Jesus. Actually, I had...

October 18, 2012

The Varieties of God

I offer here a categorization and listing of ways that people think about God. It's...

October 15, 2012

Our Shadow Side: The Appeal of The Walking Dead

By Clay Morgan Whoa. Along with other non-family friendly phrases, that was the general reaction...

October 12, 2012

Rediscovering the Beauty: A Conversation with Brian McLaren and Nadia Bolz-Weber, Part 2

Should we talk about politics in Church? What do we make of the latest Pew...

October 11, 2012

The Heart of Freedom

“Man needs to know that he is born to freedom, hence to tragedy, but also...