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March 2016

March 14, 2016

NFL Admits to the Link between Football and CTE

Wow, not long ago I wrote on Why I’m Not Watching the Super Bowl. Today, the...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

Why I’m Not Watching the Super Bowl

The Seahawks Aren’t Playing. Okay, I like my Hawks, though even here, the reality of...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Conscious Bliss

I’ve been thinking about this concept of bliss my whole life. What would it be...

December 2015

December 18, 2015

Elizabeth Chapin’s “Facing ‘the Talk’: Conversations with My Four Daughters about Sex”

First, three confessions: 1. Elizabeth was my graduate student in the MA Comparative Religion Program...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Is There a Future for Progressive Christianity in America?

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

A Beautiful Legacy: My Friend Bill Harper—Pastor Extraordinaire

(This is a sermon I gave for Bill Harper’s retirement on April 24, 2015. Bill...

April 18, 2015

The Abundant Zone: Theologizing the Present Age

This post was originally published in Christ and Cascadia, I am sharing it here by permission. I've...

March 2015

March 19, 2015

A Book Review of Gerardo Marti and Gladys Ganiel’s The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity.

I have always been suspicious of the concept of an Emerging Church Movement (ECM)—it always...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

‘Nothing Human Is Alien’: Maya Angelou, Dave Chappell, Tupac Shakur and Gay Marriage. A Sermon

Scripture text: Colossians 1: 15-23: Hymn to Christ’s work We spend most of our lives making...

June 16, 2014

Job, Grief and Being Sticky-A Sermon

June 15, 2014 FIRST READING JOB 38:1-11; 42:1-6 GOSPEL READING JOHN 1:29-34 You know I...

June 10, 2014

Anxiety and Incarnation: Advice to Graduates

Last week I was invited to be the community speaker for the local high school...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Fundamentalism Ruins Religion for Conservatives and Liberals

The Last Acceptable Prejudice hit a chord, not only with religiously conservative folks but with...

May 19, 2014

Last Acceptable Prejudice on College Campuses

I don’t often go to campus talks at my university. I don’t go because if...

May 15, 2014

We Are Not All Bruce Lee, Part 2

Around the time that Bruce Lee reached the height of his Hong Kong cinematic career,...

May 14, 2014

We Are Not All Bruce Lee, Part 1

My post-doc, Justin K.H. Tse, is guest posting for me this week, sharing his fascinating...

March 2014

March 19, 2014

Best Book on Youth Ministry

I wish I read Jeff Keuss’s brilliant book, Blur: A New Paradigm for Understanding Youth...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Super Bowl, Civil Religion and Our Dirty Little Secret

I suppose I can be accused of being biased on the Super Bowl. I live...

November 2013

November 04, 2013

Rob Bell is the Real Deal

I wrote a book on Rob Bell, and for many reasons, its been a blessing...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

A Tribute to My Wife

"Oh... it's gonna to be hard to say goodbye." My wife quoted to me Dorothy's...

October 16, 2013

Defeated: How Evangelicals Feel

It’s a fascinating time in American history, religion and politics. I recently wrote that it’s...

October 09, 2013

Producers NOT Consumers: Teaching Religion

Every class is different. You only realize this from experience. Every classroom has its own...

October 01, 2013

Time to Get Hard

To my liberal friends, and I'm not even sure I'm a liberal or a progressive....

September 2013

September 24, 2013

Atheism and Teaching Religion

Recently, a student, who has taken multiple courses from me, told me that when evangelical...

September 11, 2013

Deconstructing American Exceptionalism

The other night the President argued: "America is not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen...

September 07, 2013

“America has no business in the Middle East”

Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Studies and graduate of West Point, whose son died serving...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

R2P: The Insanity of the White Man’s Burden

In a question about whether there was any situation in which a bombing campaign would...

August 22, 2013

Antoinette’s Babies: Radical Empathy, Radical Grace

Religion in practice is always more beautiful than religion in words. In fact, from my...

August 20, 2013

‘Don’t steal my blessing…’ or Understanding the South

As some of you know I play Peter Pan part time, serving our church youth...

August 12, 2013

Ten Ways Meaning Helps Us

I received a lot of interest in my last post on “How Hedonism Harms Us.”...

August 06, 2013

How Hedonism Harms Us

Before the last presidential election a group of liberal clergy came to me and asked...

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