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June 2014

June 18, 2014

Making Trouble with Tickle, McLaren, and Winner

Since I posted last week, we've made a couple changes to the next D.Min. cohort...

June 10, 2014

The McLaren Lectionary

BMac's new book comes out today. I had the opportunity to give it a close...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

This Is Normal Now

The above landed on our doorstep yesterday morning. At breakfast, I held it up and...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

Five Honest Questions for Process Theology

This post should be properly titled, "Five Questions for Process Theologians," because you cannot actually...

December 09, 2013

What’s Up at Jericho Books?

Late last week, Hachette Book Group announced that Wendy Grisham was being let go,...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Why Does Integral Philosophy Sound Like New Age?

A lot of my friends like integral philosophy. I remember years ago when evangelicals readers...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

“What Is Brian McLaren’s Position on Homosexuality?”

That was the very first question I was asked at the first coffee break at...

January 11, 2013

Who Should Replace Giglio?

Two lists have surfaced -- there are probably more. Salon has one (that includes Your...

October 2012

October 11, 2012

Why I Haven’t Given Up on the Bible

When conversation on this blog turn to issues of sexuality, as it did this week...

October 08, 2012

Brian McLaren’s View on Homosexuality

In a poignant post, Brian McLaren responds to an Asian pastor who writes him, “I...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

The Evangelical’s Burden

Recently, I supped with a young, hipster evangelical leader. Someone you would know. Someone who...

September 17, 2012

Brian McLaren on “The Innocence of Muslims”

Brian McLaren has a new book out: Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed...

September 11, 2012

9/11 – Time to Get Along

In my most recent posts about Sri Lanka, and in an OpEd in Saturday's StarTribune,...

August 2012

August 04, 2012

If a Liberal Falls in the Forest, Does Anyone Hear?

Fred Clark brings our attention to a statement released by liberal Christian leaders: So yesterday,...

August 01, 2012

Why Liberal Christianity (Too Often) Sucks

Among the most interesting memes floating around the blogosphere this summer is the will-liberal-christianity-survive-or-will-it-die-or-is-there-a-great-liberal-awakening-happening? meme....

June 2012

June 19, 2012

What Seminary Education Ought To Be [Part Two]

I was fishing last evening with one of my friends/DMin students, and he said something...

June 18, 2012

What Seminary Education Ought To Be [Part One]

On Friday, the above photo was snapped. I'd just come off the water with 10...

May 2012

May 16, 2012

Thinking About God’s Creation

I'm thinking and reading a lot about creation right now, in preparation for year two...

April 2012

April 14, 2012

Is the Emergent Church Dead?

Brian McLaren thinks not: If we use Phyllis Tickle's term "Christian Emergence" or "Emergence Christianity"...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Blogging Controversies

Illustration from Pickling His Presence Late last week, I took some heat in the comment...

February 01, 2012

What I Did on My Vacation

I'm back from a brief digital sabbath, and my first pixels must be in...

October 2011

October 07, 2011

We’re All Evangelical Now

When I first signed on to blog at Patheos, I expressed my hesitation at being...

August 2011

August 10, 2011

What Brian McLaren Says about The Church Is Flat

"I had hoped to devote 30-45 minutes to a rapid skim of Tony Jones's new...

August 03, 2011

“Progressive” Is the Wrong Word

Not long ago, I participated in a symposium here at Patheos which asked, "Progressive Christianity:...

July 2011

July 20, 2011

What Should I Write About?

With the dissertation behind me (to be epublished later this summer), I've turned my mind...

June 2011

June 28, 2011

The Wild Goose Festival: The Talks

This is another in a series of reports on Wild Goose, which happened last weekend....

May 2011

May 12, 2011

Adding Nuance to the Sojourners Kerfuffle

Some of my friends have weighed in the on the Sojo-BelieveOutLoud controversy, as have some...

May 10, 2011

What Jim Wallis Might Be Missing

So, it seems that Jim Wallis* has gotten into a bit of a kerfuffle for...

March 2011

March 16, 2011

Rob Bell, #robbell, #lovewins, "Rob Bell"

In other news, Brian McLaren had a new book come out yesterday: Naked Spirituality: A...

February 2011

February 28, 2011

What’s Up with Rob Bell?

It seems that everyone in the little corner of the Christo-Twitterverse that I inhabit was...