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December 2014

December 08, 2014

New Date, Final Cover, Big News #DGKJ

After sprinting the final couple miles of a marathon, just this morning I have turned...

December 03, 2014

Is Rob Bell This or That?

So, Rob Bell has a TV show coming out on December 21. This is the...

December 01, 2014

Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have a Subtitle

I am in the final throes of edits on my next book — what promises...

November 2014

November 22, 2014

The Big Announcement

Last night was pretty epic, at least by AAR/SBL standards. We had a standing-room-only crowd...

November 20, 2014

What Happened to Evangelical Theology? [#ETS2014 Liveblog]

This weekend I'm attending the Evangelical Theological Society and American Academy of Religion, and I...

November 18, 2014

Will Preach for Hunt

I spent last weekend in Huron, South Dakota. This is the second year in a...

November 05, 2014

Theology for the People

As you may recall, I had a bit of a job transition this summer. After...

October 2014

October 13, 2014

Rob Bell’s Atonement

Unless you've been living under a rock (a rock without internet), you probably know that...

October 10, 2014

New Feminist Christianity [Book Week]

This fall I'm teaching Introduction to Theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities....

October 09, 2014

Did You You Know that Dietrich Bonhoeffer Was a Youth Pastor? [Book Week]

Last Friday I was wandering through my old stomping grounds, the National Youth Workers Convention,...

October 07, 2014

Moltmann’s Masterpiece [Book Week]

In completing my forthcoming book, Did God Kill Jesus?, I was driven back time and time...

October 06, 2014

Balance at the Top of Fuller Seminary [Book Week]

I'm going to focus on books this week — some that I've read, some that...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Weight-Watchers and Dietary Restrictions in Leviticus: A (Post)-Colonial (Sub)Liminal (Post)Postmodern Neopragmatic Reading of the 2014 Ikea Catalog(ue) [Five Questions for Peter Enns]

Peter Enns is a fellow Patheosian. Ooh, I like that. Patheosian. We also have the...

September 12, 2014

Jesus’ Death, God’s Culpability

I spent the summer revising and rewriting Did God Kill Jesus? That meant that the subject of...

September 10, 2014

Be the First To Get DID GOD KILL JESUS? #DGKJ

If you'd like to know about my new book, Did God Kill Jesus?, before the throngs...

September 03, 2014

DID GOD KILL JESUS? Update [VIDEO] #DGKJ

Here's a short video I shot to update you on the forthcoming book:

July 2014

July 21, 2014

The Evangelical Unicorn: A Third Way on Gay Marriage

I reviewed two books by evangelicals on gay marriage for The Christian Century -- God...

July 11, 2014

Entering Endarkenment with Barbara Brown Taylor

This book review is by my spouse, Courtney Perry. Endarkenment. Ray Wylie Hubbard first awakened...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

Book Update

I got news from my editor last week. Lots of news, in the form of...

June 10, 2014

The McLaren Lectionary

BMac's new book comes out today. I had the opportunity to give it a close...

June 06, 2014

Book Update

Some authors have the luxury of holing away and writing full time. Fellow Edinan,...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

How’s Your Atonement?

As you may know, I'm completing a book on the atonement. It's called Did God Kill...

February 2014

February 07, 2014

See You in the Big Apple

I'll be in NYC this weekend for three events with Phyllis Tickle, Jon Sweeney,...

December 2013

December 09, 2013

What’s Up at Jericho Books?

Late last week, Hachette Book Group announced that Wendy Grisham was being let go,...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

1,600 Pages of Awesome

Yesterday, I received in the mail the magisterial doorstop of a book: NT Wright's Paul...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Straight White Men Shouldn’t Write about Power and Privilege, Right?

This post is part of the Patheos Book Club. To see more posts about...

October 16, 2013

Men and War

As I've written here before, I have a bit of a fascination with war....

October 07, 2013

10 Tips for Working with an Editor [Manuscript Monday]

This post is sponsored by Grammarly. I use Grammarly's plagiarism checker because so many people have accused...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

The Most Famous Lutheran Pastor Since Bonhoeffer?

It's gotta be Nadia, right? I mean, I've been wracking my brain, and I cannot...

September 18, 2013

When Divorce Is Not the End of the Story

I met Laura Truax a couple years ago. She's a force of nature -- high...