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July 2015

July 31, 2015

6 Ways to Reach Millennials: The Future of Progressive Christianity

by Glenn Zuber The recent May 12th Pew poll ("America's Changing Religious Landscape") added a new wrinkle...

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,...

July 24, 2015

The Bipolar God

by Aaron Maurice Saari On the day that my first piece for Patheos, Coming Out as Bi...

July 22, 2015

I Have Cancer. Yes, I Have Breast Cancer.

[Editor's Note: This is the first is a series of posts we'll be featuring by...

July 08, 2015

“Unequally Yoked”: How Christians Get Interfaith Marriage Wrong

By Rev. J. Dana Trent, MDiv While Christianity is American’s most popular religion (70% of...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Slow Living: Resisting the Need for Speed

"When do we ever find such deep permission, to stop, to see that it is...

June 01, 2015

On the Pilgrim’s Journey: A Q&A with Christine Valters Paintner

"Pilgrim: Someone who makes an intentional journey courting holy disruption." -- Christine Valters Paintner One of...

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 20, 2015

Journey Through Lent: When “I Must Try Harder” Gets in the Way of Love

by Matt Bays This is God’s season…Lent…Easter. It’s the time of year when some of...

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...

March 10, 2015

A Powerful Manual for the Spiritual Life

As a prophet and wisdom teacher, Jesus frequently challenged the status quo and employed witty,...

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 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 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 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 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...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

Following Our Heartache: The Intersection of Yoga and New Monasticism

"Yoga mats have become little island sanctuaries of peace. The time for that is over....

November 2014

November 18, 2014

Early Christmas Joy: Meditating with the Advent and Christmas Stories

The joy came to me early this year, in the form of Jan Johnson’s Taste...

November 17, 2014

Christmas as a Season: Sybil MacBeth’s “The Season of Nativity” and a Holiday Revolution

“The whole Nativity Season deserves to be relished.” ~Sybil MacBeth There is perhaps no holiday...

November 04, 2014

Five Ways to Experience an Extreme Advent

By Sybil MacBeth Author, The Season of the Nativity: Confessions of an Advent, Christmas and...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

Michael Yankoski: Three Ways to Embrace The Sacred This Year

by Michael Yankoski Earth’s crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God; But...

August 2014

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 12, 2014

Why I Don’t Care if You Use Prayer Beads

I don’t care if you use prayer beads. I know that seems strange to say....

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

Prayer Beads: Yes, It’s OK for Protestants

“Is it okay for Protestants to use prayer beads?” In the five years I’ve been...

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 25, 2014

Practical Theology: Deconstruction and Politics in My Christopraxis

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