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April 2014

April 07, 2014

Mimetic Mondays: Does God Create Evil? Mimetic Theory and Isaiah 45:7

We recently received a message on the Raven Foundation Facebook Page that raised a great question...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

The Cross, Part 4: The Views of Calvin, Arminius, and Aslan Described Somewhat Snarkily

One of the issues facing our understanding of the crucifixion event centers on who to...

March 21, 2014

The Cross, Part 3: Was Job Right in Declaring God Unfair?

If Job was right in that he didn’t deserve all the horrible things that happened...

March 13, 2014

If Jesus Gave a TED Talk #2

This is the second in a series of posts where I re-imagine Jesus’ five big sermons as TED Talks,...

December 2013

December 12, 2013

Birthing God: Women’s Experiences of the Divine

A few years ago, I sent out Christmas cards with a Meister Eckhart* quote on...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Hellbound? on Halloween: A Live Chat with Director Kevin Miller about Mimetic Theory and Hell

Who would you like to see bound to Hell to suffer eternal conscious torment? Okay,...

September 2013

September 03, 2013

The Nonviolent Atonement: Brian McLaren and James Alison on Violence, God, and Mimetic Theory

[Editor's Note: This post, by Adam Ericksen from The Raven Foundation, is the second in...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

Introducing Mimetic Mondays: Exploring God and Violence

Mimetic Theory. It's a phrase that's been popping up in conversations and blogposts about violence, and...

August 20, 2013

Matheomatics

St. John of the Cross, the Spanish mystical priest of the 16th century, drew a...

May 2013

May 14, 2013

Musing on God

God is all without being any thing while being the all in every thing. God...

April 2012

April 10, 2012

Together Towards Tomorrow: Pluralism in India

On January 21, 2011 the De Smet – de Marneffe Memorial Annual Lecture was held...

April 21, 2011

Maundy Thursday: Forgiving God

At some point, we have to learn to forgive God. My guess is that most...

November 2010

November 12, 2010

Living in a Post-Theological World: Beyond Theories of God

So what does this world look like without ‘theology’? What it means is that competition...

October 2010

October 25, 2010

The Castration Of God

We are in danger of losing everything: the threat is that we will be reduced...

October 06, 2010

The Caffeinated Riots: The Reverse Perversion of Teenage Suicides

When young teenagers are driven to kill themselves, the bullies are not the only one's...

October 04, 2010

The Phallic Fetish Of Prayer

To help us better understand what has happened to prayer, I think we have to...

September 2010

September 10, 2010

Deconstituting Jesus, Christianity, & Burning the Koran

I think where we are now in terms of asking very hard questions and participating...

August 2010

August 31, 2010

Pakistan, Denying Them Answers, Job & God Overwhelmed

Pakistan is still reeling from the destruction of the floods. I have personal friends who...

August 29, 2010

Ungrounding Ourselves into the Christ-Ethic

For Lacan, public law such as “No Photos” or “Do not go on the grass”...

August 16, 2010

Belief is a Parasite: What Alice, Old Yeller and Broken Lights Can Teach Us About Dogma

Dogma imprisons us within freedom. It gives us the caged experience of liberty. It drives...

August 13, 2010

The Homeless: Violent Liberators

At one point on his journey, Jesus comments on the static state of the homeless...

August 09, 2010

Burning our Scarecrows: Re-redefining History

There has been a hip new influx of re-ideology. Or neo-ideologies. For example, there used...

August 03, 2010

The God Who Forsakes Us

We live in a world that almost thrives on the need for closure or an...

July 2010

July 31, 2010

Giving Up God(s)

According to process theology - everything is in process - (some ancient jews defined perfection...

July 21, 2010

The Nameless Other

"Love one another" - Jesus. When we deem someone as other, we create even more...

July 10, 2010

A theology that can change the world

We are made for story. For narrative. For life. For moments to unfold. For pages...

June 2010

June 13, 2010

Longing for paradise: another view on heaven.

We long for paradise. It's as if something deep down cries out within us and...

June 07, 2010

Nared and Filfin Contemplate the Mind of God

One of my favorite story-tellers, Mark Yaconelli, shares a remarkable conversation between his daughter's two...

May 2010

May 28, 2010

Leaving the the gardens of our own making: a different view on the adam and eve story

desire longs for a less mediated reality. – anna smith Delight yourself in the LORD...

May 26, 2010

Have Christians Sinned Against the Gospel?

The ancient Greek word for sin, hamartia, is an archery term that refers to missing...