Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

The Peripatetic Preacher

Home
About

Home
Progressive Christian

Uncategorized

Select a Category Uncategorized

Select a Month July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016

August 2020

August 18, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 16 Exodus 1:8-2:10 August 23, 2020 An Oppressed Fable

As you can see, I have decided to return to the Revised Common Lectionary as...

August 14, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher What’s in a Name?

This week, the presumptive presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, chose as his...

August 13, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Bible: Recognizing and Choosing Your Lenses (4)

I thought I was finished with my latest look at the Bible and its use...

August 12, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Bible Warfare in 2020 (3)

In two previous essays, I attempted to draw a sketch for how the Bible may...

August 11, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Bible: Reading Through the Centuries (2)

In my last essay I made an imaginative attempt to reconstruct possible ways that the...

August 10, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Bible: An Imaginative Thumbnail History (1)

I have spent well over 50 years of my life as a student and teacher...

August 07, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Self-Denial and Its Absence

I was especially struck by the interview that President Trump conducted recently with the journalist,...

August 06, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher A Wedding for Such a Time as This

Later this week, I will be performing a wedding here in Los Angeles, the first...

August 05, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Public Salvation

Biblically, there is simply no such thing as private salvation, a kind of “come to...

August 03, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Conversation

I have been thinking about the art of conversation recently, spurred on by the very...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Martin Luther, Post-Modernism, and Media Free-For-All

I doubt few would disagree that we live in an age of media free for...

July 27, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Immigration

Immigration is a deeply fraught subject in the USA and around the world. Peoples across...

July 22, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Needing Esau

I have been at the top of the social heap for most of my life....

July 21, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Anti-Judaism–Again

In more than a few of my essays over the six or seven years I...

July 20, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Hollow Ones

There are times in my life when only poetry seems to speak clearly yet elusively...

July 14, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Love When We Need It

I have been given the opportunity to perform a wedding here in Los Angeles, the...

July 13, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Complexities of Church and State

For those of us who have given much of our lives, both personally and professionally,...

July 10, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Aging

This week I had another birthday, making me 74 years old. I have now lived...

July 07, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Gaslighting and Responsibility in the Garden

The much-used term “gaslighting” has its immediate origin in a 1938 play of that name...

July 06, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Biblical Violence

The Bible’s rich story is saturated with violence. As much as we enjoy saying that...

July 03, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher God: The Problem

I obviously having absolutely nothing genuinely new to add to the discussion of God in...

July 02, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher White Privilege: Things Are Seldom What They Seem

I take my title today from that infectious Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, “The Pirates of...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher We Have Met the Enemy

I imagine that most of you can easily finish my chosen title today by adding...

June 29, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Samson Alive and Well

The Bible is a fabulous book. I use that adjective in both of its common...

June 26, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The COVID-19 Whine

I had a difficult time sleeping last night, because I was worried about whether our...

June 24, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher We Are the Women and Men

The Bible’s stories are riddled with sharp questions and often peculiar and twisted answers. When...

June 22, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Baseball

One of the more distressing things about the COVID-19 pandemic is the loss of crowd-driven...

June 17, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Alone

Yesterday, June 16, my wife and I did something we have not done in about...

June 16, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher A Dollar Bill

I well remember a small book written for the United Methodist Women in celebration of...

June 15, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Perpetual Confusion Between Church and State

Of the discussions of the contested relationships between the church and the state there truly...

Related posts from The Peripatetic Preacher

Progressive Christian

The Peripatetic Preacher. Ordinary, Extraordinary Love

The Peripatetic Preacher

Progressive Christian

The Peripatetic Preacher Is There History in the...

The Peripatetic Preacher

Progressive Christian

The Peripatetic Preacher. Get the Shots Already!

The Peripatetic Preacher

Progressive Christian

The Peripatetic Preacher. In Solidarity with Creation

The Peripatetic Preacher

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Subscription Support Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In

Follow Patheos