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June 2011

June 18, 2011

Getting Your Hands Dirty

It's a crummy weekend here in Minnesota. Overcast and humid, one feels as though one...

May 2011

May 05, 2011

Get My Latest Book for 99 Cents!

Paraclete Press is having an awesome sale for a limited time: You can get my...

April 2011

April 22, 2011

Good Friday + Earth Day = ???

This year gives us a strange confluence of Good Friday and Earth Day, both occurring...

April 19, 2011

Open Source Church by Landon Whitsitt

Landon Whitsitt has a new book out, Open Source Church: Making Room for the Wisdom...

April 13, 2011

Didache DVD Half-Price

For a limited time, Paraclete Press has dropped the price of the Didache DVD, "The...

April 12, 2011

Michael Horton Gets It Right (and Wrong)

I was thrilled when Mike Horton agreed to come on Doug Pagitt Radio with me...

April 08, 2011

Questions for Rob Bell

If you were going to have a few minutes on a radio show to interview...

April 08, 2011

Rob Bell Is (Not) a Universalist: The Thief on the Cross

All this week, I'll be posting about Rob Bell's controversial new book, Love Wins. And...

April 07, 2011

Rob Bell Is (Not) a Universalist: How Much Freedom Do Humans Have?

All this week, I'll be posting about Rob Bell's controversial new book, Love Wins. And...

April 05, 2011

Rob Bell Is (Not) a Universalist: Who Is this God?

All this week, I'll be posting about Rob Bell's controversial new book, Love Wins. And...

April 04, 2011

Rob Bell Is (Not) a Universalist: What the Book Is

All this week, I'll be posting about Rob Bell's controversial new book, Love Wins. And...

April 01, 2011

Loves Wins: The Typo That Is Not an April Fool's Joke

Some of us have noticed a typo in the last line of The Book. It...

April 01, 2011

Rob Bell Is (Not) a Universalist – Part One

I've now read the book, thanks to Tripp Fuller, who gave me his copy (Tripp...

March 2011

March 26, 2011

The Didache in Swedish

Today, a group in Sweden is releasing a translation of the Didache that's in the...

March 16, 2011

Rob Bell, #robbell, #lovewins, "Rob Bell"

In other news, Brian McLaren had a new book come out yesterday: Naked Spirituality: A...

March 09, 2011

My Interview on God Complex Radio

Carol Howard Merritt interviewed me for God Complex Radio. We talked mainly about my book...

March 08, 2011

Download the Chapter Deemed "Too Gay" for the Baptimergent Book

Homebrewed Christianity is making available a PDF of Brian Ammon's chapter on sexuality, a chapter...

March 06, 2011

Preaching Leviticus

Daniel Harrell's new book on Leviticus (How to be Perfect) is out, and Patheos has...

March 04, 2011

Is Amanda Hocking the Future of Publishing?

If you haven't heard of Amanda Hocking, you should listen up. She is, according to...

March 02, 2011

Rob Bell and HarperOne: Marketing that Works

Remember how I said that, on the one hand, the Calvinistas have been waiting for...

February 2011

February 02, 2011

I Wrote Another Book

Well, kind of. I wrote a short devotional book a few years ago called, Twelve...

January 2011

January 24, 2011

John Bohannon Responds to My Review at Jesus Creed

John Bohannon has taken to Scot McKnight's blog to respond to a critical review of...

January 18, 2011

Jay Bakker Reads the Bible More than You

That's pretty much the bottom line of my post at Patheos on Jay's new book:...

January 08, 2011

The Future of Youth Ministry Publishing

A youth ministry prof (and my friend), Terry Linhart, weighs in on the resignation of...

January 07, 2011

A Book-a-Month in 2011

Now that the dissertation is all but done, I'm turning my time to some things...

December 2010

December 23, 2010

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December 14, 2010

Do You Hate Mormons?

Jana Riess tips us off to an interesting finding in the much-discussed tome, American Grace. ...

November 2010

November 27, 2010

Two Friends Get Publisher's Weekly Reviews

Two of my closest friends got reviewed in PW this week. I've only read Jay's,...

November 24, 2010

Wordle Wednesday: The Teaching of the Twelve

And so we read the end of my Wordle Wednesday experiment. I'd say that by...

November 23, 2010

What I'm Reading for Christmas

I try to read something Christmasy every year during Advent. Last year it was the...