Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Theoblogy

Home
Progressive Christian

Uncategorized

Select a Category bible blogging books christianity in america church church history dissertation divorce Dog Training education emergent church essay family funny glbt jopa productions ministry minnesota movies music parenting philosophy politics Prayer publishing Questions That Haunt random same sex marriage speaking spirituality Teaching technology television theology Travels Uncategorized writing youth ministry

Select a Month January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 June 2006 May 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 June 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 August 2004 February 2004 January 2004

June 2005

June 02, 2005

Official Response to Critics of Emergent

Response to Recent CriticismsBy Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, Spencer Burke, Brian McLaren, Dan Kimball, Andrew...

April 2005

April 11, 2005

Blog Silence

Life being what it is, I will be ceasing to blog, or to read blogs,...

April 06, 2005

The Trinity

So, as I put my 4 and 3 year-olds to bed tonight, they were yet...

April 06, 2005

What Is Practical Theology? Part IV

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

April 03, 2005

What Is Practical Theology? An Interdisciplinary Intermezzo, Part III

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

March 2005

March 31, 2005

Happy Birthday…

...to me.

March 26, 2005

Blog News

1) Jeff Kursonis, of this post, is now blogging here. Check it out, and support...

March 19, 2005

What Is Practical Theology? An Interdisciplinary Intermezzo, Part II

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

March 17, 2005

Do Yourself a Favor…

...and order this book!

March 16, 2005

What Is Practical Theology? An Interdisciplinary Intermezzo

For some important background, first readthisandthisand, especially,this.If you take the time to read these, or...

March 11, 2005

Prayers…

...needed for Stan Grenz, theologian of the emerging church, who is fighting for his life...

March 05, 2005

What Is Practical Theology? Wow!

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

March 02, 2005

What Is Practical Theology? Part III

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

February 2005

February 28, 2005

God Working in Serendipitous Ways

Yesterday, I was killing some time with a friend in NYC between our visits of...

February 25, 2005

What Is Practical Theology? Part II

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

February 24, 2005

The Central Jersey Emergent Cohort meets next Tuesday night.

February 23, 2005

What Is Practical Theology? Part I

I do get asked on occasion, "What is practical theology?" Lots of people are pretty...

February 19, 2005

Hell Exists

Word on the street is that Brian has gone soft on hell in his latest...

February 16, 2005

In Praise of Christian Smith

We just finished up a two-day consultation here at Princeton that brought together some of...

February 13, 2005

Death to Spanking!!!

Here's some logic for you:Teach your kids not to hit......by hitting them.

February 06, 2005

Send My Kids to College!!!

Dear Friends,I beseech you to click here, and help a struggling Ph.D. student pay the...

February 03, 2005

American Evangelicalism

One of the biggest problems facing contemporary sociologists, especially since the collapse of the secularization...

January 2005

January 29, 2005

Ordination

Last weekend, I preached at the ordination service of a friend. I thought it was...

January 26, 2005

The Future of the Emergent Convention

Youth Specialties has just announced that it it refocusing its efforts on youth ministry and,...

January 25, 2005

Central Jersey Emergent Cohort – next meeting

OK, everyone, I think we successfully avoided coming to any kind of consensus as to...

January 24, 2005

Minnesota Insider Post

I don't care what all you snooty St. Olaf grad/classical music lovers say, this is...

January 18, 2005

So Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jürgen Habermas were sitting at an outdoor cafe, somewhere in Europe…

Habermas: What up, G? Say, I've read all your stuff on hermeneutics, and I think...

January 17, 2005

Phenomenological Hermeneutics

The big paper I was working on for the past two weeks was on that...

January 14, 2005

Why to not get a PhD…

...because you'll start sounding like this: Following Heigedder, truth for Gadamer is historical; that is,...

January 14, 2005

Gadamer and Fields

I'm not quite done with my 40-page paper on phenomenological hermeneutics (it's due at midnight,...