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October 2012

October 10, 2012

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

It's a rare and wonderful day when I get to spend an hour alone with...

October 10, 2012

Frank Schaeffer Gets Real for RealClear Religion

Popular Patheos blogger, famous ex-Evangelical, and very vocal critic of the Religious Right Frank Schaeffer...

October 05, 2012

The Pottery Barn Catalog (and other pornographic literature…)

It’s here! It’s here! The October Pottery Barn catalog…be still my heart. I mean, it...

October 03, 2012

Ku Klux Clowns in East Tennessee

I started my Tennessee sabbatical with a story about 3 peace activists who recently shut...

October 02, 2012

Pub Theology, Part III: An (Un)Safe Place

This is the third in a series on Bryan Berghoef’s new book, Pub Theology: Beer, Conversation,...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

Arbitrarily Close to God

In 1464, not long after Easter, the secretary to Nicolas of Cusa, a Catholic cardinal,...

September 21, 2012

Common Sense

In 1776, Tom Paine published "Common Sense", a widely-read pamphlet that rallied the colonists of...

September 17, 2012

Responding to 9/11: Remembering the Enemy Within

By Greg Barrett Four years ago during the homestretch of the U.S. presidential election, the...

September 12, 2012

Poetic Proverbs

When I want to get under the surface of things, I re-read the “proverbios” of the...

September 10, 2012

War and the Dimensions of Love: An Army Chaplain Reflects on September 11

An Army chaplain in Afghanistan discovers that it’s easier to talk about love of enemies...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Pub Theology, Part II: A Story of Two Tables

This is the second in a series of excerpts from Bryan Berghoef’s new book, Pub...

August 29, 2012

A Pilgrim Christian at the Wake-Up Festival

Whenever I'm presented with an invitation to "awaken," I typically cancel all plans and take...

August 22, 2012

Thirst for the Desert

This is no news for those who know me well: I'm a desert person. In...

August 20, 2012

Talking To Christians About Hell: It’s Not As Easy As You’d Think

Anyone who thinks filmmaking is glamorous should try making a documentary sometime. Better yet, try...

August 15, 2012

Worshipping at the Altar of Ayn Rand’s Undeserving Elite (Ryan Is No Kemp)

I have something in common with Republican vice presidential nominee Congressman Paul Ryan: We were...

August 13, 2012

The Myth of the Lone Gunman

One man strides boldly forward. His weapons are at the ready. He's on a mission...

August 10, 2012

Resisting Condemnation to Save America

Strange as it may seem, I believe that one bold new movie, a new interfaith...

August 07, 2012

Learning Deeply

"Contemplative Pedagogy" - a high-falutin' term, no? In low-falutin' language, it's about using meditation to...

August 06, 2012

An Entirely Different Critique of “Liberal” Christianity

In theological terms, we are tasked with affirming life in this moment of planetary exhaustion...

August 06, 2012

Fearfully, Wonderfully: The Olympics and the Hunger Games

It is 3pm on Friday, and I can’t wait to get home and watch the...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

Pub Theology: Beer, Conversation, and God

A minister, an atheist, and a few other people walk into a bar… The minister...

July 27, 2012

Nadia Bolz-Weber: This is the God We’re Dealing With

Favorite Patheos blogger and Lutheran Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber recently spoke to 34,000 teenagers at the...

July 26, 2012

How Capitalism is Killing Liberal Christianity

By Colin Kerr, author and campus missionary Is liberal Christianity committing suicide? New York Times...

July 26, 2012

Blinded by the Lite

Reflections on BRIGHT-SIDED – How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by...

July 23, 2012

The Myth of Redemptive Violence

I had a veteran friend once tell me, “The biggest lie I have ever been...

July 16, 2012

The Uncertainty-Driven Life

The Uncertainty-Driven Life Wandering, I stumbled upon my purpose, Adrift, I made port, Unbidden, love...

July 11, 2012

Listening for the Light

(after worshipping last Sunday at Willistown Friends Meeting, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania) A big stone house...

July 02, 2012

Brian McLaren’s Message to the Church on the Fourth of July

As part of our conversation on the new book Reborn on the Fourth of July: The...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

Favorite Moments from the Goose: Snapshots from the Wild Goose Festival 2012

This Denver girl is a brand new fan of the South. Specifically the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill...

June 18, 2012

Don’t Let Them Hijack Jesus

It really gets old, doesn’t it? Every election cycle, the story is the same. This Christian...