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2015-03-13T16:43:48-05:00

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Penal Substitution Dies on the Reservation

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

I’ve been to Taizé twice, in France. Occasionally, Taizé goes on the road, as it did last weekend, to South Dakota. More specifically, the gathering was on Red Shirt Table, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, just miles from where I lived the summers of 1994, 95, and 96, in Manderson. I would have loved to participate, being that the gathering was a marriage of two of my favorite places in the world. But, alas, Taizé is not for me. It’s... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:43:49-05:00

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What I’m Reading, Hearing, Watching, and Cooking

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

Dear friend and colleague, Sarah Cunningham, interviewed me and Bruce Reyes-Chow for her weekly series, “Attention to Detail.” There you can decide for yourself which one of us leads a more interesting life. 🙂 Read more

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Richard Rohr on Incarnational Christianity

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

Years ago, I proposed that those of us looking for an alternative to the labels “evangelical,” “mainline,” and “liberal,” instead rally around the term Incarnational Christian. In today’s email meditation, Richard Rohr writes something along those lines: Paul, a good Jew, quotes Deuteronomy, “The Word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (Romans 10:8), and begins with a challenge that we still need today: “Do not tell yourself that you have to bring Christ down!” (Romans 10:6).... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:43:50-05:00

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Fiction, Film, and Christian Spirituality

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

That’s the topic of our gathering next month, when I meet with nine of my favorite people in the world — the students in my D.Min. cohort at Fuller Theological Seminary. I’m co-teaching with my seminary classmate and long-time friend, Craig Detweiler, and thanks to him, we’re meeting on the stunningly beautiful campus of Pepperdine University. We’ve got 10 topics, and each topic includes a novel (with one exception) and a film. Novels and films were nominated by the students,... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:43:50-05:00

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Does Our Sin Affect God? [Questions That Haunt]

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

This question comes from Ben — you can submit your questions here — and it deals with three thing:1) the nature of God, 2) the nature of human interaction with God, and 3) the nature of sin: Does my sin have an effect on God? Specifically, if I do something that doesn’t harm anybody (but maybe myself) does it matter to God? I understand there is general sin (or corporate sin) that is simply the brokenness of our world. I’m talking... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:43:50-05:00

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Memorial Day

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

A good opportunity for Americans to pause and, regardless of politics, honor those who have died protecting our democracy. Read more

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2015-03-13T16:43:50-05:00

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Islam’s “Dark Ages”?

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

A Muslim reader wrote this to Andrew Sullivan, in light of the horrific killing in London this week: It seems Islam is going through its Dark Ages, where lack of education and a confusion of tradition with religion in Muslim countries is causing their people to be manipulated by false sermons of violence against the West as some good deed when it’s a sin and a sin alone. All I know about Islam is that killing a human being is... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:43:51-05:00

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Help Brian McLaren

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

From Brian’s blog this week: Readers of my books and blog know that I am a movement person. On this blog, in my speaking, and in my books I get behind a wide array of organizations, causes, and projects that I sense are moving in the same general direction. My great sense of calling has been, and continues to be, to contribute to a broad-based movement that embodies a Christ-like ethos and leads to Christ-like action for the good of... Read more

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2015-03-13T16:43:51-05:00

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An Invitation to Christian Feminists

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

For the week of June 10, I am turning this blog over to feminist and womanist authors. Some, whom I already read, I have already invited to post. Others, whom I do not (yet) read, can submit posts here. If I receive more entries that I can reasonably post, I have a small group of people (not me) who will sort through and select the entries. Each post will be unedited. Criticism of me and my work is acceptable, as... Read more

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God Is Male, and Female, and More Than Both [Questions That Haunt]

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 4:43 pm By Tony Jones

This question comes from Mark, and it provoked some thoughtful dialogue this week: Hi Tony, I just recently discovered you, and thankful to do so. I appreciate the way you think! As an aside, in one of your threads, you brushed upon the gender of God. (Holy Spirit was feminine.) I think it would be of great value, to discuss the entire issue of “the intrinsic gender(s) of the Divine.” Any thoughts, or comments? Thanks, Mark. And thanks for being... Read more

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