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2014-04-30T18:29:07+00:00

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Blood Doctrine: Christian Piatt Asks – What if Jesus Returns… as a Clone?

Last updated on: April 30, 2014 at 6:29 pm By Guest Contributor

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By Blake Atwood, faithvillage.com As an author, Christian Piatt may be most well-known for his Banned Questions About the Bible series. He’s also a progressive voice as a blogger, and currently serves as the Director of Acquisitions and Author Development for CrowdScribed and as the Director of Growth and Development for First Christian Church (DOC) in Portland, OR. His latest work, Blood Doctrine, combines his many talents and interests into a gripping tale of faith and science, a fictional yet believable book about the possibility of using... Read more

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2014-04-29T03:31:36+00:00

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A Divine Comedy, of Sorts: On Banana Peel Theology

Last updated on: April 29, 2014 at 3:31 am By Arik Bjorn

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“He laughed, he, Jorge. For the first time I heard him laugh.” The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco Rarely does one leap from slumber at 3 a.m. eagerly. But that Summer of ’96 morn, a sacred moment beckoned me. Soon, after a rigorous, wee-small-hours hike, I would reach the peak of Mt. Sinai and behold the... Read more

2014-04-29T00:01:59+00:00

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Bearing Beauty: The Studio P(atheos) Artist Interviews

Last updated on: April 29, 2014 at 12:01 am By Deborah Arca

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“And we were put on earth a little space To learn to bear the beams of love.” — William Blake Patheos is great at words. We bring you lots and lots of them here at our site (which, incidentally, is celebrating its 5-year anniversary next month!) and they’re really, really good. They make us think harder about the big questions of our faith. But we can all only take so many words before we need a break from theologizing, philosophizing... Read more

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2015-02-06T23:02:13+00:00

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Faith Forward: The Future of Christian Education, Part 2

Last updated on: February 6, 2015 at 11:02 pm By Suzanne Ross

What’s Emerging? A New Perspective on Victims Something new is happening in Christianity today. The Spirit is moving among us, shaking up old ways, raising new questions, and challenging thousand year old tenets of our faith. Books with titles like Everything Must Change (Brian McLaren), Jesus Feminist (Sarah Bessey) and Banned Questions About the Bible (Christian Piatt) are populating our bookshelves. Some call these authors heretics who are destroying the fabric of Christianity. Others claim that without these prophetic voices,... Read more

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2014-04-25T22:25:05+00:00

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Death Row Inmates Invite Tennessee Governor to Pray with Them

Last updated on: April 25, 2014 at 10:25 pm By Shane Claiborne

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This past Thursday, the men on Tennessee’s death row, four of whom have scheduled execution dates in the near future, invited Governor Haslam, the man who signs the death warrants to join them for prayer. The backdrop for the story is that Tennessee has more executions scheduled in a year than the state has killed in the past 50 years. Last week as Christians around the world remembered Good Friday, the day Jesus was executed, legislators in the Bible belt... Read more

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2014-04-25T16:31:43+00:00

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Waiting for Resurrection: A Post-Easter Lament for Black Communities

Last updated on: April 25, 2014 at 4:31 pm By Candice Benbow

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Jesus lives. Yet, many African-Americans are still waiting for the resurrection. Read more

2014-04-22T23:02:17+00:00

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Two Kinds of Christianity (A Conversation Between Mother and Son)

Last updated on: April 22, 2014 at 11:02 pm By Chuck Queen

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Marcus Borg introduced his book, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering A Life of Faith, by describing “A Tale of Two Paradigms” where he juxaposed the basic elements of “the earlier paradigm” of the Christian tradition and life with what he labled “the emerging paradigm.” Many of us who promote an emerging paradigm and participate in the progressive Christian movement were once connected to traditional understandings and practices. The following conversation I had recently with my mother reveals how different these... Read more

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2014-04-22T21:18:49+00:00

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Pop Prophets and Religious Pluralism

Last updated on: April 22, 2014 at 9:18 pm By Jim Burklo

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SOULJOURN: The Book and the Journey Pop Prophets and Religious Pluralism A review by Jim Burklo of NATURAL MYSTICS: The Prophetic Lives of Bob Marley and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan by Varun Soni (Figueroa Press: 2014) Waves of wailing falsetto lifted Rama’s holy name above the reedy voice of the harmonium and the steady beat of hands clapping and palms sliding on the tabla. “Sanson Ki Mala Pe” sounded like the very stereotype of Indian spiritual music, to ears untrained... Read more

2015-02-06T23:13:54+00:00

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Monday Meditation: Resurrection

Last updated on: February 6, 2015 at 11:13 pm By Guest Contributor

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God of Resurrection, You are Author and Story; you fold yourself into Character; now wrap yourself in my welcome. Shimmer and dance and leap within, snapping along these nerves, pouring from these fingertips, shouting from this palate and tongue and teeth. Let me speak you, sing you, dance you; let me hope you, promise you, reveal you; let vision, and word, and yearning be you, all you, only you. By Andrea La Sonde Anastos Copyrighted and posted with permission... Read more

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2015-02-06T23:14:17+00:00

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Faith Forward: The Future of Christian Education

Last updated on: February 6, 2015 at 11:14 pm By Suzanne Ross

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Part 1: Just what is emerging? There’s a lot of talk about “emergent church” these days. But just what is emerging? Phyllis Tickle, popular author and founding editor of the Religion Department of Publishers Weekly, says we are entering the age of the Spirit, and I agree. But where is the Spirit leading us? Brian McLaren, a leading voice in the emergent church movement, calls it “A New Kind of Christianity.” But what is this new Christianity all about? Having... Read more

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