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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 25, 2015

Connecting the Q in LGBTQ to the Bible’s ‘Q’ Source

Several times over the past few weeks, people have asked me, "What does the 'Q' 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 05, 2015

“Papa, if God wants to bring us peace and light, why did he help the Israelites destroy a city and kill people?”

I don’t always allow my daughter, who is seven, to read during church service. Technically,...

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...

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 23, 2014

Stump a Bible Scholar: Wrestling with Zoroastrianism Influences

Tuesday is Stump a Scholar Day here at Patheos Progressive Christian — and no question is too...

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...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

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

By Blake Atwood, faithvillage.com As an author, Christian Piatt may be most well-known for his Banned...

March 2014

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 11, 2014

Jesus Wept, Einstein’s Regret & How a Frenchman Fueled the Hermeneutics Wars

With 20 centuries under its biblical belt, Christian history offers its fair share of landmark...

December 2013

December 02, 2013

Seasons of Gifts: Preaching Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany

I invite you to consider how your preaching through this season invites us to dwell...

July 2013

July 02, 2013

When Robbers and Innkeepers Profit from Good Samaritans

By the Rev. Brian E. Konkol Lake Edge Lutheran Church, Madison, WI The “Parable of the...