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March 2015

March 03, 2015

A Progressive Baptist Response to Roger Olson (and a word about heresy)

Roger Olson, a professor at Truett Theological Seminary and a blogger at Patheos Evangelical recently...

March 02, 2015

The Gospel of Kelly Gissendaner

Georgia clergy just delivered 500 signatures of faith leaders and 40 boxes of names from...

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...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Trust Me, Church: When Passing the Peace Turns Stressful for Me

Belonging to a different church than my husband seemed hardly subversive in the beginning. After...

January 22, 2015

Holy Parents, Not Rabbits and Colonizers

By Timothy Villareal Discussing the Catholic Church's prohibition on artificial contraception and its promotion of...

January 20, 2015

Trust Me, Church: Why I’m Not That Interested in “Letting You Know I’m Here”

When I graduated from divinity school, I was homeless. Not in a literal kind of...

January 14, 2015

Two Conversations Christians Need to Have in 2015

America is coming apart at the seams. Greed, corruption, fear, and violence are among our...

January 13, 2015

Some Assembly Required: A Church Without God

On January 11, I drove down the hill to the Musicians Union hall at 817...

January 12, 2015

Trust Me, Church: How Your Bulletin Makes Me Feel Like I Do (or Don’t) Belong

In my search for a church home during graduate school, I attended over ten churches...

January 08, 2015

Trust Me, Church: Five Micro-Resolutions That Make a Big Difference

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” I said to myself as the storm door pumped...

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...

December 05, 2014

Rob and Kristen Bell on the Art of Marriage (and a Few Words about Oprah)

“Life is always changing. The space between you is always changing. Marriage is this art...

December 04, 2014

Why President Obama’s Executive Actions Are Hostile To The Kingdom Of God: Voices From The Religious Left

By the Rev. Ellin Jimmerson A factual certainty about the Bible is that the Old...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

A Spiritual Path to Gratitude

Brother David Steindl-Rast has contended in his writings that gratitude is foundational to a healthy...

November 17, 2014

Making the Most of What We Have Been Given (A Sermon on the Parable of the Talents in Matt. 25:14-30)

I don’t know if there is any truth to it or not, but the story...

November 10, 2014

Preaching as a Mad Act: A Q&A with John Holbert

"Preaching is a mad act, speaking for God to people who hardly know who God...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Christian Piatt Takes PostChristian on the Road

Patheos blogger Christian Piatt is on the road this fall, promoting his new book PostChristian...

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 22, 2014

Can You Handle the Truth? On Galileo, Biblical Inerrancy, and the Courage to Question

A wonderful thing happened some four hundred years ago. Renaissance man Galileo Galilei thought to...

September 15, 2014

Shane Claiborne on Dr. King, Nonviolent Uprisings and Learning from Ferguson

Dr. King said: a “riot is the language of the unheard.” What happens when folks...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

Jesus Died With His Hands Up, Too

Michael Brown should not have been shot dead by police in Ferguson, Missouri. His hands...

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...

August 13, 2014

PostChristian: Christian Piatt on the Church and the Future of Faith

"There is no question that Christianity as a religion has been in need of a...

August 07, 2014

Practical Theology: Love-Fest

We got the authors of three recent books of practical theology together and asked them...

August 05, 2014

Practical Theology: What We Would Steal

We got the authors of three recent books of practical theology together and asked them...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Practical Theology: The Buried Mystericism of Childhood

We got the authors of three recent books of practical theology together and asked them...

July 29, 2014

Practical Theology: Seeing the Flaws

We got the authors of three recent books of practical theology together and asked them...

July 28, 2014

When the Battle Is Hard: On Restoration and Renewal of Faith

By Lisa Anderson On June 23, 2014, 79-year-old retired United Methodist pastor, the Rev. Charles...