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2015-03-13T16:42:45-05:00

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Dear Marcus Borg: Please Reconsider the Resurrection

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

Marcus Borg has joined Patheos as a blogger, which I think is great. He has put out some of the most solid biblical scholarship around over the past few decades. His more popular work I’m less fond of, in which I think he tries too hard to disabuse people of some important aspects of Christianity. Nevertheless, I consider him a very important voice, and I heartily recommend his work to people. Last week, in my QTH answer, I referred to... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:42:46-05:00

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Where Did the Resurrected Jesus Go? [Questions That Haunt]

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

This week’s Question That Haunts Christianity comes from Jason, and I love it so, so much: (more…) Read more

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10 Tips for Working with an Editor [Manuscript Monday]

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

This post is sponsored by Grammarly. I use Grammarly’s plagiarism checker because so many people have accused me of stealing my theology from Pope Francis. A month ago today, I was in Chicago, meeting with my editor about my next book. I’ve known him professionally and as a friend for over a decade, but we’ve never worked together before, so I didn’t know quite what to expect. Over the course of a day, sitting at his kitchen table, we talked about everything... Read more

2015-03-13T16:42:47-05:00

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Hans Küng Considering Assisted Suicide

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

From Reuters: Hans Küng, Roman Catholicism’s best known rebel theologian, is considering capping a life of challenges to the Vatican with a final act of dissent – assisted suicide. Küng, now 85 and suffering from Parkinson’s disease, writes in the final volume of his memoirs that people have a right to “surrender” their lives to God voluntarily if illness, pain or dementia make further living unbearable. The Catholic Church rejects assisted suicide, which is allowed in Küng‘s native Switzerland as... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:42:47-05:00

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No, the Writers of the Bible Did Not Expect It To Be Taken Literally [Questions That Haunt]

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

This week’s Question That Haunts Christianity cames from Nina: Questions that haunt: did people of Jesus’ time even expect the stories they were telling to be taken literally? Would they be shocked to learn that 2,000 years later we are interpreting them that way? They told lots of stories then about people who were sons of god, and born of virgins, and resurrected — these were themes that came up regularly. It doesn’t seem to me (or to most scholars since David... Read more

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Various Goodnesses

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

At Her•Menuetics, Laura Turner encourages her fellow evangelicals to embrace the F-Word — feminism: The church needs feminism because at its core, feminism affirms to us what our faith teaches us about male and female in God’s Kingdom and what Jesus himself preached throughout the New Testament. The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology announces that John Franke will be giving the inaugural Stanley Grenz Lectures a month from now: The Stanley Grenz Lecture Series is offered by The Seattle... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:42:48-05:00

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Who’s Lightin’ It Up? The Burner Blog

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

A couple weeks ago, I started a Hump Day Series called “Got It Goin’ On.” What a great idea, I thought. But, like Led Zeppelin, I didn’t steal that idea. It just quietly seeped into my head from another source. And that source is The Burner Blog. You see, The Burner Blog has had a “Got It Goin’ On” feature for a long time, even giving out a pretty sweet badge for it: When someone pointed this out to me,... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:42:48-05:00

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What the Church Can Learn about Millennials from Small Batch Distilleries

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

I’ll admit that sometimes I feel that I’ve walked out of a Portlandia sketch. I’m a bit clichéd, that way. I bake bread every week, tend a huge organic garden, pickle many things, and I’m a sucker for small-batch, handcrafted whiskeys and cocktails. Above, for instance, is a neat pour of the hard-to-find Balcones Whiskey, which I make a point of drinking when I’m in Texas. There’s a huge surge in interest in these kinds of whiskeys — and other... Read more

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Did the Writers of the Bible Expect It To Be Taken Literally? [Questions That Haunt]

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

This week’s Question That Haunts Christianity comes from Nina: (more…) Read more

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Satan Is Real, Just Ask Jesse Pinkman

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:42 pm By Tony Jones

ALERT: Spoilers ahead. It will take some time for those of us who watched Breaking Bad to absorb the layers of that show, and the near-perfect ending of the series, aired this week. When the show began, Walter White was a high school chemistry teacher, struggling with cancer and mounting bills — and, we soon discovered, a tragic personality flaw that led to him missing out on being a rock star chemist and billionaire. Jesse Pinkman was a ne’er do... Read more

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