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June 2012

June 09, 2012

Evangelicals Can’t Be Peaceful

To the younger evangelicals like Jonathan Merritt and Rachel Held Evans, who are begging their...

June 08, 2012

There Are No Thin Places

Thin Places - Chapter 2: Submerging from The House Studio on Vimeo. So, I said...

June 07, 2012

How Do You Get Rid of a Bishop?

Well, it seems that the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church decided to...

June 05, 2012

America: Getting Dumber

PRINCETON, NJ -- Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created...

June 05, 2012

Every Catholic You Know Is “Intrinsically and Gravely Disordered”

Don't take my word for it. Just ask the Vatican, which, in its condemnation of...

June 04, 2012

Maybe the Bible Teaches that We’re NOT Supposed to Obey God

So wonders Robert Burt of Yale Law School: Whether we approach the Bible as believers...

June 04, 2012

“Women In Ministry” – I’m Over It.

Kudos for RHE running a week-long series on mutuality. And to Scot McKnight for his...

June 01, 2012

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men

I'm on a lot of panels at conferences. Rarely are they all white men (anymore)....

June 01, 2012

It’s Not Easy Being a Pro-Gay Black Church

As Rose French reports in the StarTribune, the only black congregation that is officially "open...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

Richard Mouw to Retire from Fuller Seminary

I can't find it on the Fuller website yet, but here's the announcement that was...

May 30, 2012

The Mars Hill Church Job Description

Here it is, from the site of the search firm running the search: The Vanderbloemen...

May 29, 2012

Shane Hipps Leaving Mars Hill

My dear friend (and camp counselee, circa 1984), Shane Hipps, announced yesterday that he will...

May 28, 2012

What’s Happening in Marriage and Divorce?

Mark Regenerus looks at the number: First, the sheer number of new marriages (i.e., weddings)...

May 26, 2012

Free Money for Evolutionists

If you're a scholarly type, and you'd like to get a project funded that will...

May 25, 2012

Richard Beck Gets His Ass Kicked

Theoblogger Richard Beck has a beautiful post about his worship home, a small service called...

May 24, 2012

An Evangelical Argues for Legal Same Sex Marriage

Out of Ur is the staunchly evangelical blog of the staunchly evangelical magazine Leadership, published...

May 24, 2012

The Church Is Dripping with Culture

My response to Jason Clark's review of my book is up at Church and Pomo: If...

May 23, 2012

Gay Christian College Students Exist

Richard Flory has the evidence, but he wonders why they don't transfer: What strikes me...

May 21, 2012

Jason Clark Reviews The Church Is Flat

Church and Pomo -- now hosted at The Other Journal -- today started a two-week...

May 18, 2012

The Methodist Fiasco

As an observer and critic of denominations, I watch the United Methodist Church General Conference...

May 17, 2012

There’s a Queer Underground at Biola

The purveyors of the website The Biola Queer Underground and contacted me, hoping that students...

May 15, 2012

An Evangelical Seeking a Commonsense Solution on Same-Sex Marriage

Bob Hyatt doesn't blog enough. But when he does, it's good. Bob is a friend...

May 15, 2012

The Future of Preaching

I'm sitting in the Buckhead Theater in Atlanta, about the take the stage with Doug...

May 14, 2012

You Are Hereby Granted Permission to Evolve on Same Sex Marriage

"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same:...

May 12, 2012

Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School Lives Up to Its Name

Catholicism in America seems to continue is quest for irrelevance via misogyny. This from CNN:...

May 11, 2012

A Liberal, Gay Cleric Defends Campus Crusade

It seems that the late Peter Gomes stared down the administration at Harvard University when they tried...

May 11, 2012

Catholic Bishops Insist on Waging a Culture War

It seems that every week, Catholic bishops in the U.S. are speaking out against something....

May 10, 2012

Proof: Women Are Better Leaders than Men

In the Harvard Business Review, Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman release the results of their...

May 09, 2012

Obama Gets Off the Pot on Gay Marriage

After years of hedging on gay marriage -- which many of us who supported him...

May 09, 2012

Goodbye, Evangelicalism

Rachel Held Evans sees the passage of Amendment 1 in North Carolina yesterday as another...