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September 2009

September 08, 2009

A Moltmann Week

This week, I'll be consumed by the 2009 Emergent Village Theological Conversation with Jurgen Moltmann,...

August 2009

August 21, 2009

Who Will Call Out John Piper?

So yesterday, John Piper once again entered crazy-television-evangelist territory and blamed a small tornado that...

August 18, 2009

Video Response: Natural Law, Gays, and the Church

August 07, 2009

Moltmann Tweets

No, Dr. Moltmann hasn't taken up tweeting. But others of us have been tweeting about...

June 2009

June 23, 2009

The Genesis of Gender Roles

This summer's conference for the Center for Biblical Equality will take place in St. Louis,...

May 2009

May 18, 2009

Stanley Fish Is Right about Faith, Again

Recently, Stanley Fish wrote about the problems with the way the liberal intelligentsia thinks about...

May 04, 2009

Why It Matters that Jesus REALLY Rose

Last week, I spent time with some new friends in Canada. Most of them were...

April 2009

April 27, 2009

NeoCalvinist? No, NeoPuritan!

In the past, I've used this space to challenge advocates of Reformed theology to stand...

April 21, 2009

Fuller Seminary Offers D.Min. Credit…

D.Min. Students Take Note:Both of the events listed below are being offered for credit at...

April 20, 2009

Calling Kevin DeYoung to Account [UPDATED]

You may recall that Kevin DeYoung, co-author of the book, Why We're Not Emergent (By...

April 20, 2009

My Conversation with Bart Ehrman, Continued

The doods at Homebrewed Christianity have taken my conversation with Bart Ehrman about his book,...

April 14, 2009

A Straw Man on the Cross?

Some of my favorite commenters (like Annie) have accused me of "straw man" arguments this...

April 13, 2009

Do I Deny Penal Substitution?

No. I simply deny it pride of place. Here's what I wrote in October, 2006...

April 13, 2009

The Irony of the Young, Restless Reformers

So, I wrote a couple of posts over the weekend -- "Why Jesus Died" and...

April 12, 2009

Why Jesus Rose

I'm on no quest to reject the penal substitutionary theory of the atonement (PSA). (I...

April 10, 2009

Why Jesus Died

It's Good Friday, the day that we Christians "celebrate" -- actually, commemorate -- Jesus' crucifixion....

April 03, 2009

Breaking News: Rod Will Debate Same Sex Marriage

It just turns out that he won't debate it with me.Last fall, Rod and I...

April 01, 2009

Video of Christian Book Expo Panel

I've already blogged about this a couple times, but here's the video artifact of the...

March 2009

March 27, 2009

What Is Practical Theology? Part Eight

After an all-to-lengthy excursion into interdisciplinary method, it's time to get back into the four...

March 26, 2009

What Is Practical Theology? Part Seven

OK, this is the final part of what was meant to be a brief tangent....

March 26, 2009

Christian Book Expo: My View

I'd been waiting for Publisher's Weekly to file a report on the Christian Book Expo...

March 25, 2009

What Is Practical Theology? Part Six

OK, I'll start with a concrete situation in order to illustrate the promise of "tranversal...

March 25, 2009

Are Academic Theologians Useless?

I've posted on that question over at Religion Dispatches.We're at a turning point, right now,...

March 24, 2009

A Conversation at the Christian Book Expo

Following my panel discussion, about which I will report soon, I was approached by a...

March 24, 2009

What Is Practical Theology? Part Five

How does one navigate the pluralism of our world today? There's a lot at stake...

March 23, 2009

What Is Practical Theology? Part Four

OK, I was all brewing up a great intermezzo post with a provisional definition of...

March 22, 2009

What Is Practical Theology? Part Three

Practical Theology is a self-consciously hermeneutical enterprise. Now, if you're a regular reader of this...

March 21, 2009

What Is Practical Theology? Part Two

Practical theology (PT), as a discipline, takes a great deal of interest in empirical information....

March 20, 2009

What Is Practical Theology? Part One

Among my most popular posts from my old blog were those on my working definition...

March 19, 2009

Liberal, Conservative, Evangelical, Mainline, Progressive

Last week at the Transforming Theology confab, these terms came up again and again. And,...