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January 2022

January 21, 2022

Should Christians Attend Same-Sex Weddings?

While our motive matters, so does the situation.

January 21, 2022

Gender Dysphoria: Real or Imagined?

I have searched through Scripture for some clarity on the issues of LGBTQ identity and...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

God, Racism, and our World: A Multi-Layered Diagnostic for Racial Justice

“If you’re White, please don’t @ or email me.” I shared this attempted line of cautionary...

March 2020

March 05, 2020

Finding a Feminist God

When I shared with friends and colleagues, two years ago, that I would be matriculating...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

Finding God in the Gym: From Crossfit to Church

What people may not tell you is that there is an irresistible element of encouragement...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Man Meets God: A Q&A with Josh Grisetti

I saw fire burning in God's eyes -- a "righteous anger," as Christians like to...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

GOD: The First Artist

The first words of the first book of the Bible are, “In the beginning, God...

February 2016

February 02, 2016

Throwing Jesus Off a Cliff

If you invited someone to your house and shortly after they arrived you felt like throwing...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

The Future of Progressive Christianity: What If…?

What if the people leaving the Church are the collective voice of God to us,...

June 2015

June 10, 2015

When Dajerria Becton Cried Out for Her Mama and God

“Call my Mama! Call my Mama at home. God!” -- Dajerria Becton Dajerria Becton, a beautiful...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

The Fruit of Soulful Love: Marvin Gaye, God and Us

The late Marvin Gaye was my first proper crush. His chocolate buttery voice courted me....

May 19, 2015

Michael Dowd: When Religion Fails, Economics Become Demonic

For my fifth Pando Populus post, I’ve asked my good friend Michael Dowd to briefly...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Genesis: The First Messy, Tangled Act in God’s Long Story of Becoming Humane

For the last couple of months, I've been studying the book of Genesis with a...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Did God Kill Jesus? Tony Jones on the Crucifixion, Love, and Resurrection

"The way we view the crucifixion of Jesus and the posture of God when that...

March 11, 2015

Convergence Christianity: A Q&A with Eric Elnes

by Timothy Villareal The Rev. Eric Elnes, senior minister of Countryside Community Church (UCC) in...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

De-terrorizing the Texts of Terror: What The Bible’s “Punishing God” is Really All About

There are any number of texts in the Bible that depict God as a punishing...

February 02, 2015

Who or What Is God?

I've been spending a lot of time with professed atheists lately. In particular, this week I...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Five Things To Do When GOD Seems ALOOF

There is an old joke… There was a man who fell in a hole and...

January 16, 2015

When God Hides: An Interview with Author Tony Kriz

Have you ever felt like God was hiding from you? Have you ever wondered how...

January 07, 2015

Where Is God? A Sermon on Why It’s Not Necessary to Believe that Jesus is God

John’s prologue is actually a poem that introduces major themes that will be developed in...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

When Jesus Stopped Believing in Santa

The day after the first Shabbat in Advent, Mary and Joseph took Jesus, who was...

November 2014

November 06, 2014

A New Conversation on the Death Penalty

This week (Nov. 6) Wheaton College, often called “the Harvard of Christian colleges” is hosting...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

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

There are some Christians who give the Bible godlike homage. It might as well have...

October 22, 2014

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

Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan argues in his book, God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome,...

September 2014

September 02, 2014

Stump a Bible Scholar: What About Israel?

Think you can stump a scholar? No question is too tough or too radical (this...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

What Jesus Learned from a Courageous Woman (and what we can learn too!)

One of the more fascinating stories in the Gospels that many Christians conveniently ignore is...

August 19, 2014

Stump a Bible Scholar: Is Jesus God?

Think you can stump a scholar? No question is too tough or too radical (this...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Five Surprises That Hit Me When Writing “How Jesus Became God”

In my opinion, How Jesus Became God is the most important book I’ve written for non-scholars, since...

June 18, 2014

Healing for Fractured Fathers

14 When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

The Cross: My Answer to My Daughter’s Question, “Why Did God Make Sickness?”

in Golgotha, at the Cross, humanity spoke violence and God spoke love, and the cross...