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May 2012

May 09, 2012

Kudos to Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley and I don't have a whole lot in common, theologically speaking. But I...

May 08, 2012

How White Is the Emerging Church?

Pretty white, as it turns out. I asked Todd Ferguson of Baylor University to run...

May 04, 2012

Don’t Blame the Bible for Your Bad Views on Homosexuality

Matthew Vines is an undergrad at Harvard. He's also gay, and he's a Christian. He's...

May 03, 2012

Christians Suck at Politics

At least, that's the conclusion of Bob Robinson: We Christians are complicit in this demise...

May 02, 2012

Go Team Vajayjay!

I hope that I was a small part of getting the word "vagina" back in...

May 01, 2012

The Pope, Nuns, Gays, and Jesus

April 2012

April 30, 2012

This Church Is All, Like, WTF

April 30, 2012

Twenty Years Ago: In LA for the Riots

I remember April 29, 1992 very vividly. I was a second-year student at Fuller Theological...

April 28, 2012

Possibly the Worst Church Website in the World

Who says Flash is dead? HT: Doug Pagitt

April 27, 2012

Misogynists Urged to Up Their Game

According to misogynistic pastors like Russell Moore and John Piper, "complementarians" just aren't pushing women...

April 27, 2012

Who Thinks that God Is Still Speaking?

This post is part of the Patheos Book Club. Check out the Book Club for more...

April 26, 2012

Mark Driscoll’s Church Vandalized by Angry Queers

No, seriously, that's the name of the group: Angry Queers. They threw baseball-sized rocks through...

April 26, 2012

Roger Olson Compares the Emergent Church with the Jesus Movement

I've heard it for years: "The emerging church is nothing more than the Jesus Movement...

April 25, 2012

Stanley Fish on Defending a Sacred Text

Earlier this week, I wrote about Chuck Colson. Colson, in his 2006 attack on the...

April 25, 2012

What Religion Is

I've had several conversations recently with friends and acquaintances about what religion is, and I've read a...

April 24, 2012

Exactly Which Church Are These Letters To?

This post is part of the Patheos Book Club. Check out the Book Club for...

April 23, 2012

For Chuck Colson, Truth Was Truth

The recently deceased Chuck Colson was among the first heavyweight evangelicals to speak out against...

April 23, 2012

Denver Post Declares Emergent Church UnDead

From a Denver Post article on the (not-dead-yet) emergent church: For a rising tide of...

April 20, 2012

Holding Hands Is a Gateway to Sex in Tennessee

The Tennessee Legislature has update their abstinence-only education bill. Public school teachers will now warn...

April 20, 2012

Rest Easy. Bristol Isn’t Living with her Boyfriend

Bristol Palin blogs here at Patheos. You knew that, right? So, she and I are,...

April 20, 2012

Study: Millennials Leaving Faith

You've heard it, and now it's been confirmed by a major survey from Georgetown University...

April 19, 2012

One More Thought on Blue Like Jazz

So, now I'm getting emails from people, asking why I'm so negative toward Blue Like...

April 18, 2012

What Crisis in Christianity?!? Andrew Sullivan Reax

The editor of a major newsweekly once told me that if he wanted to double...

April 17, 2012

Why We Can Ask Mitt Romney about His Mormonism

Jeff Weiss responds to the criticism he got last week in his proposed questions to...

April 17, 2012

Did You See Blue Like Jazz?

So, I'm wondering if any of you saw Blue Like Jazz over it's opening weekend....

April 16, 2012

Watch Sarah Pulliam Bailey Destroy The Atlantic

Sarah Pulliam Bailey, writer for Christianity Today, is one of my more favorite writers in...

April 16, 2012

Evangelical Colleges and Their Gay Students

In my neck-o-the-woods, Bethel University's provost recently held an open conversation with gay students and...

April 14, 2012

Is the Emergent Church Dead?

Brian McLaren thinks not: If we use Phyllis Tickle's term "Christian Emergence" or "Emergence Christianity"...

April 12, 2012

There’s No Theology Like Reformed Theology

This amazing ad came in the "Dollars and Sense" mailer last week. Comments very welcome.

April 11, 2012

What Would You Ask Mitt Romney?

Now that he's the Republican candidate, Romney's Mormonism is on the table. I've been critical...