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October 2014

October 07, 2014

Moltmann’s Masterpiece [Book Week]

In completing my forthcoming book, Did God Kill Jesus?, I was driven back time and time...

September 2014

September 12, 2014

Jesus’ Death, God’s Culpability

I spent the summer revising and rewriting Did God Kill Jesus? That meant that the subject of...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

Five Reasons You Probably Shouldn’t Attend a Christian Seder

It's Passover until this evening, and lots of Christians — especially evangelicals — are attending...

February 2014

February 12, 2014

God Is Not Eternal

Writing a book on the atonement is like peeling the layers of an onion. Everything...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Which Side of the Cross Are You On?

Scot McKnight made an interesting observation this week: But the Abelardian and Girardian have an...

January 23, 2014

God Is Not Outside of Time

One of the things I hear assumed by Christians all the time is that God...

November 2013

November 08, 2013

Humanize the Other, because That’s the Gospel

It's long been my contention that core to the ministry of Jesus was that he...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

The Resurrected Jesus Did Not Go Somewhere. He Went Somewhen. [Questions That Haunt]

This week's Question That Haunts Christianity comes from Jason, and it's a doozy: Hello Tony, I've been...

October 09, 2013

Dear Marcus Borg: Please Reconsider the Resurrection

Marcus Borg has joined Patheos as a blogger, which I think is great. He has...

October 08, 2013

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

This week's Question That Haunts Christianity comes from Jason, and I love it so, so much: Hello...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

What Heresy Is (A Post for Rachel Held Evans)

Yesterday, I accused C. Michael Patton of holding a heretical view of the Trinity. He...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

On Retiring a Sermon

Unlike a lot of you, I don't have to prepare a sermon each week. In...

May 2013

May 17, 2013

It’s Probably True, Even If Jesus Didn’t Say It [Questions That Haunt]

This week, Andrew asked us to consider the claims of divinity that are attributed to...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

Why I Won’t Be Viewing Kevin Ware’s Injury

Yesterday, I was sitting in the steam room at the gym, minding my own business,...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

Vote for Jesus? [Darrell Dow]

I'm taking a week away from the blog this week, and I've asked my friends...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

In Which I Disagree with Richard Rohr

I like Richard Rohr. He's one of the good guys. And now he's joined Twitter....

February 08, 2013

Jesus Didn’t Rescue Himself from the Cross because He Couldn’t [Questions That Haunt]

Awadhesh Kumar Singh supplied this week's Question: Why could Jesus not show the miracle of...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

James McGrath Is Wrong: Herod Really Did Massacre the Innocents

Fellow #progGOD theoblogger James McGrath is glad that Matthew got the infancy narrative of Jesus...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

The Rabbi Says, “Sure Jesus Had a Wife!”

I had a little fun with the idea that Jesus had a wife last week....

September 20, 2012

If Jesus Had a Wife…

So, it seems that some Coptic Christians in the 4th century maybe possibly thought that...

April 2012

April 06, 2012

A Better Atonement: Jesus Died for This

This week, as we prepare for Good Friday and Easter, we've have a post every...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

A Better Atonement: Jesus Died with Trayvon

Every Wednesday during Lent, I'm going to explore an alternatives to the penal substitutionary understanding...

March 27, 2012

For Whom Did Jesus Die?

Well, on the very face of it, you have to say that Jesus died for...

December 2011

December 26, 2011

Shane Hipps: Salvation IS Liberation

Shane has a nice, brief reflection on this season and the birth of a Savior:...

November 2011

November 14, 2011

Writing a Book About How RADICAL Jesus Is? Please Stop Boring Me.

Every week I get a book in the mail from a Christian publisher. It's another...

July 2011

July 22, 2011

Is Jesus Your “Political Hero”?

Echoing W, who famously called Jesus his favorite philosopher, Tim Pawlenty yesterday called Jesus his...

May 2011

May 03, 2011

The Gospel According to Nadia

The good people of Denver put their spiritual lives at risk by asking Nadia Bolz-Weber...

April 2011

April 21, 2011

No, Marcus Borg, the Resurrection Does Not "Make Sense" – That's What I Love about It

At Patheos, Marcus Borg recapitulates what he's been saying for years: that the resurrection of...

April 08, 2011

Rob Bell Is (Not) a Universalist: The Thief on the Cross

All this week, I'll be posting about Rob Bell's controversial new book, Love Wins. And...

March 2011

March 18, 2011

Did Jesus Die on a Chocolate Cross?

I'm no pietist, as many readers will know. In fact, my local newspaper once ran...