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March 2011

March 30, 2011

Evangelicalism and Fuller Seminary

I spent a few days this week at my alma mater, Fuller Theological Seminary, promoting...

March 25, 2011

What #robbell Might Be Missing in #lovewins

I haven't read the book yet, but I've watched the videos and I've read reviews,...

March 22, 2011

Celebrification

That's a word that Pete Ward introduced to me yesterday. Pete may be best known...

March 09, 2011

I Challenge Peter Rollins to Give Up Atheism for Lent

Happy Ash Wednesday, everyone. Peter Rollins is the most famous Christian Atheist that I know....

March 07, 2011

The Post You NEED to Read about Universalism

It resides at Keith DeRose's site. Keith, often referenced by me, is a philosophy professor...

February 2011

February 08, 2011

How to Take Communion

My dissertation, like any, uses a lot of resources (390 footnotes, and counting) and tries...

February 04, 2011

I Don't Believe in Demons

As I've been writing the posts exploring the possibility of Christian universalism, it's become clear...

February 03, 2011

Christian Universalism: Cosmology

Being that I've been to Italy a dozen times, as a student, a tourist, and...

January 2011

January 31, 2011

October 2010

October 27, 2010

Does God Require Blood?

That's the question that Mark Heim, professor of theology at Andover Newton Theological School asked...

October 07, 2010

The New Moltmann's Here! The New Moltmann's Here!

Yes, that headline will strike some of you as earthshattering as this: For it seems...

October 06, 2010

When Communion Is Political (Hint: It's Always Political)

Up here in the barren northland, there's been a dust-up in the ongoing struggle of...

September 2010

September 17, 2010

Moltmann's Ecclesiology

I'm currently working on chapter four of my dissertation, in which I will use Jürgen...

July 2010

July 01, 2010

Kagan Is Wrong about Umpires

One of my senators, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), asked Elena Kagan yesterday about, among other things,...

June 2010

June 28, 2010

Don Browning Has Died

Thanks to Andy Rowell for pointing out to me the news that Don Browning, a...

June 20, 2010

Some Inside Jokes for the Theologically Educated

At Faith and Theology, Kim Fabricius and Ben Myers have posted a bunch of clerihews...

June 17, 2010

God Is Not Apophatic (Because I Can't Say "God Is Not Love")

Over the past couple weeks, I've been exploring apophatic statements about God. I am, as...

June 09, 2010

God Is Not Static

One thing that I do not understand about the hyper-Reformed is this contradiction in their...

June 02, 2010

God Is Not Emergent

I had the unhappy experience of listening to yet another online conversation yesterday in which...

May 2010

May 27, 2010

God Is Not Just

Definitions of "just" and why God is not that: 1.) merely: and nothing more; "I...

May 26, 2010

God Is Not on the Side of the Poor

It's often said that God is on the side of the poor/oppressed/marginalized, and, indeed, there...

May 25, 2010

God Is Not Male

I'll begin my explorations into the apophatic by stating something that God is Not, and...

May 24, 2010

A Little Post about God

I've been thinking about God lately, and I cannot help but be continually pulled toward...

May 18, 2010

Three Micro Book Reviews

Midrash on the Juanitos: a didadtic novella by Russell Rathbun Cathedral Hill Press, 2010; 146...

April 2010

April 13, 2010

Andrew Root Podcast Interview

Andy Root had me on his BlogTalkRadio show today to talk about chapter two of...

April 04, 2010

From the Archive: Why It Matters that Jesus REALLY Rose

Originally posted May 4, 2009: As often when I’m with liberal groups, Marcus Borg’s name...

April 03, 2010

From the Archive: Why Jesus Rose

Originally posted April 12, 2009: So, why a resurrection? More importantly to me, as one...