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December 2014

December 30, 2014

The Year in Blogging: Top Posts…with Goodies!

I passed a decade as a blogger this year. My first post was on January...

December 22, 2014

Limping Into the New Year — A Christmas Diagnosis

I am limping out of 2014 and into 2015. One week ago today, I had...

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 25, 2014

Justice Is Possible #Ferguson

This is a guest post by Anthony Smith, aka postmodernnegro. No indictment for Ferguson Police...

November 25, 2014

No One’s Heard of Paul Ricoeur

I've spent the last week at academic conferences on religion (honestly, the annual meeting of...

November 22, 2014

Is the Emerging Church Relevant? [Liveblog]

This week I'm at AAR/SBL, and I'm liveblogging some of the sessions I'm attending. This...

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 14, 2014

Am I Afraid of Atheism?

Revolution Church — which was founded by Jay Bakker and has followed him from Phoenix...

November 06, 2014

With Mark Driscoll Gone, We’ve Only Got John Piper To Show Us the Insanity of Hypercalvinism

John Piper has done a 180 on cancer. That's according to T.C. Moore at Theological...

November 05, 2014

Theology for the People

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

November 04, 2014

What We Can Learn from the Failures of Rome

As I expected, Christianity's cultured despisers (many of them from within) took great offense at...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

In Praise of Empires

Courtney and I are in Rome this week, compliments of Focus Features and A Different...

October 27, 2014

The Emerging Church Is What It Says It Is

On Friday I covered the first of two articles by political scientists Ryan P. Burge of...

October 24, 2014

Study Shows Emergent Is Not As Liberal As You Thought

Just when you thought emergent was dead, scholars are showing that it's very much alive...

October 17, 2014

Nadia Brings Queers, Gays, and Lesbians To an Evangelical Party

Post by Nadia Bolz-Weber. The above video was posted by Nadia on her Facebook page...

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...

October 02, 2014

The Art of Events

Putting together the roster of speakers for an event is an art, not a science....

October 01, 2014

Ken Silva Has Died

According to his website, Ken Silva died on Sunday. It states, "He had succumbed to...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Another Seminary Hits the Skids, Firing Eight Professors

I've been beating the drum that seminaries across the land are in a time of...

September 29, 2014

Transgender Teens Are the Next Target of Minnesota Bigots

The above full-page ad was run on the back of the Sunday sports section in...

September 23, 2014

You Don’t Know If God Exists…Or Doesn’t Exist

Friend of the blog and Yale philosopher Keith DeRose has a fascinating interview up at...

September 18, 2014

Remember When Yoga Was Bad?

Last night in yoga, I couldn't help but smile. I know I'm supposed to be...

September 15, 2014

Official Seminary Response

As a blogger, one never knows. Most posts are crickets. Sometimes, a post captures the...

September 09, 2014

A Tale of Three Seminaries

The Twin Cities boasts three Protestant seminaries (forgive me if I don't consider John Piper's...

September 04, 2014

Some Thoughts About Mark Driscoll

There were a couple things that I couldn't avoid, even with my self-imposed internet sabbatical....

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...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Ordaining Trans*

For years, Phyllis Tickle has told of her small Anglican outpost in Memphis, a congregation...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

Why There’s No “Third Way” on Gay Marriage

Every week now, there's news about gay marriage. Today it's that Oregon is allowing same...