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2014-11-06T16:35:52+00:00

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A New Conversation on the Death Penalty

Last updated on: November 6, 2014 at 4:35 pm By Shane Claiborne

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This week (Nov. 6) Wheaton College, often called “the Harvard of Christian colleges” is hosting a forum on the death penalty. But it’s not just any forum. It has potential to reshape the way evangelicals in America think about the topic. In addition to Wheaton’s own ethicist Vincent Bacote and Mercer University scholar David Gushee, the panelists include Kirk Bloodsworth, who spent eight years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Also on the panel is Frank Thompson,... Read more

2014-12-22T19:54:09+00:00

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Away With the Manger

Last updated on: December 22, 2014 at 7:54 pm By Susan Pitchford

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The annual rant is upon us: Thanksgiving is still weeks away, and already the stores are full of Kristmas Krap. (As opposed to Christmas decorations, which are lovely and which show up at the appropriate season.) So a friend and I were talking about the symbols of Christmas, and how they shape the way we think about it. And I confessed, for the umpteenth time, that I just can’t relate to the Baby Jesus. I’m not a mom, never wanted... Read more

2014-11-04T04:49:04+00:00

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Five Ways to Experience an Extreme Advent

Last updated on: November 4, 2014 at 4:49 am By Guest Contributor

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By Sybil MacBeth Author, The Season of the Nativity: Confessions of an Advent, Christmas and Epiphany Extremist I cannot remember exactly when it happened, but I think it was in a large high-end mall in Cleveland, Ohio. Decked in a spectacular array of shiny foil, colorful ornaments, and thousands of lights, the mall was filled with focused holiday shoppers. My intent was to be one of them. It was early December and I had not purchased a single gift for... Read more

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2014-11-04T22:02:19+00:00

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Voting: A Ritual

Last updated on: November 4, 2014 at 10:02 pm By Jim Burklo

(see this and more at Patheos.com’s “Public Square”: http://www.patheos.com/Public-Square) “Voting is irrational.” This jarring statement comes from Paul Woodruff, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas in Austin, in his wise book, REVERENCE: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue (2002). It’s disturbing, but it might get at the heart of the problem of low voter participation. Thirty-eight million people’s lives will be critically affected by the choices made on November 4 in my state. But only 25.2% of California’s registered voters... Read more

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2014-10-30T22:09:21+00:00

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Christian Piatt Takes PostChristian on the Road

Last updated on: October 30, 2014 at 10:09 pm By Deborah Arca

Patheos blogger Christian Piatt is on the road this fall, promoting his new book PostChristian (and hosting Beer & Hymns events wherever he can), so I thought I’d pull out this interview from the archives to introduce you to Christian and his thoughts on PostChristian: What Left, Can We Fix It, Do We Care? Enjoy! To see if Christian’s coming your way soon, check out his speaking schedule here: http://www.christianpiatt.com Read more

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2014-12-22T19:45:22+00:00

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Rethinking the Bible’s Place (It’s Just the Way It Is, Part 2)

Last updated on: December 22, 2014 at 7:45 pm By Chuck Queen

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There are some Christians who give the Bible godlike homage. It might as well have come floating down from heaven on the wings of angels. Should we ascribe to the Bible divine status? In Nazi Germany a Jewish fugitive fleeing for his life came to a small town. He sought out the house of the Christian pastor, hoping to find refuge. He knocked on the door and when the pastor opened it, he told his story and asked if he... Read more

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2014-12-22T19:23:28+00:00

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A Gay Catholic Priest on Sex and the Synod: A Q&A with Fr. Geoff Farrow

Last updated on: December 22, 2014 at 7:23 pm By Guest Contributor

by Timothy Villareal The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, California experienced something of an earthquake in October of 2008. A month ahead of the vote on Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in California – the same Prop 8 that was finally put six feet under by the Supreme Court in 2013 – a Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Geoff Farrow, declared he was gay. Farrow, then 49, was the pastor of the St. Paul Catholic Newman Center in Fresno.... Read more

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2014-12-22T19:21:30+00:00

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Covering Worship: Special LP Deluxe Edition

Last updated on: December 22, 2014 at 7:21 pm By Clint Schnekloth

The sample size might be too small for statistical validity, but I’ll go ahead and offer a data-influenced hypothesis nevertheless. Concept albums are on the rise. Or perhaps we should call them “cover” concept albums, since most of the ones I’m thinking of are a concept, but they are also “covering” an album from the past. Here are the ones I’m listening to right now. You might have heard others. The Bad Plus recently put out a jazz rendition of... Read more

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2014-10-23T21:33:53+00:00

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A Seminary Invites Silicon Valley to Play: The Launch of a New Center for Innovation in Ministry at SFTS

Last updated on: October 23, 2014 at 9:33 pm By Deborah Arca

I’ve just recently returned from an exceptionally joyful jaunt to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I learned first-hand the transformative power of play for solving real-world problems such as hunger, violence, racism, and climate change. Late last week, on a beautiful fall day in the sleepy hills of Marin County, the San Franciso Theological Seminary (SFTS) launched its new Center for the Innovation in Ministry with an extraordinary event that brought together Silicon valley gamers and innovators with pastors, church leaders, business leaders and theologians to... Read more

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2014-12-22T19:44:06+00:00

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Two Visions, One Book — That’s Just the Way It Is

Last updated on: December 22, 2014 at 7:44 pm By Chuck Queen

Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan argues in his book, God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now, that in the biblical tradition, both Old and New Testaments, two incompatible and contradictory explanations of God’s final victory over the evil and injustice of the world run side by side, often in the same biblical books. One explanation is extermination. It is reflected in the Noachic solution to evil in the world, namely, the complete destruction of the wicked. Crossan writes,... Read more

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