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April 2015

April 27, 2015

Where is God in the Nepal Earthquake?

It is impossible to try to digest the magnitude of the loss: suffering, death, pain,...

April 24, 2015

Should Seminaries Train the Churches?

The primary objective of seminaries has long been (primarily) to train pastors and ministers for...

April 23, 2015

Creflo Dollar, the Devil, and the Kingdom of God

Creflo Dollar's dream of acquiring a $65 million dollar jet to facilitate his ministry may...

April 22, 2015

A Brief Theology of Creation for Earth Day

God brought a world into being, and thereby became vulnerable, instilling within creation a measure...

April 22, 2015

Join Cornel West and Robert George at Biola

Biola University is putting on a unique event on April 30: A dialogue between Cornel...

April 21, 2015

10 (More) Books Every Seminary Graduate Should Read (Dead Theologian Edition)

My post on the "10 Books Every Seminary Graduate Should Read" seemed to strike a...

April 20, 2015

Theology in the Warehouse: A New Program in the Twin Cities

On May 1, we're throwing a party to celebrate the inauguration of a new theology...

April 20, 2015

My Journey Through Evangelicalism (and Seven Reasons I Left)

I have decided to write a series of posts in which I explain my own...

April 14, 2015

10 Books Every Seminarian Should Read (Even After Graduation)

Graduation is coming up quickly. Seminarians all around the country are frantically finishing up papers,...

April 09, 2015

LGBT, Forgiveness, and the Church: A Real-Life Redemption Parable

The other night in class, a student shared a testimony of sorts that touched me...

April 09, 2015

Was Germanwings About Depression? Think Again

A week or so ago, I wrote a post exploring a "link" between clinical depression and...

April 07, 2015

What they Didn’t Teach Me in Seminary: Theology is About Power!

Conflict. Imperial violence. Embezzlement. Declarations of heresy. Coercion. Arrest and torture. Exile. This is all...

April 06, 2015

Lesson from the Rolling Stone: We Are Easily Duped

I vividly recall reading the Rolling Stone story, "A Rape on Campus," last November. The...

April 03, 2015

Could Jesus Have Been Overcome?

As I wrote in my last post, many theologians throughout history have been freaked out...

April 02, 2015

Gethsemane: The Most Troubling Story in the Bible?

The Garden of Gethsemane story has given theologians fits. Many of them, particularly in the...

April 01, 2015

In Resurrection, God Defends Against Death, not Dying

I'm reading a bit of Robert Jensen's Systematic Theology at the moment. I like how...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

All my Gay Friends are Christians (I Should Get Out More)

Earlier today I posted a blog responding to an essay by Andy Borowitz regarding the...

March 31, 2015

The Resurrection Means that God is Not Lonely

The most difficult transition in early Christianity, which of course began as a sect of...

March 29, 2015

The Resurrection Matters because Bodies are Beautiful

So I am a progressive Christian, but I believe in the bodily resurrection. Jesus rose...

March 29, 2015

Suicide is Far More Common than Terrorism

Imagine if the Germanwings plane was brought down in an act of political or religious...

March 27, 2015

Germanwings: When Suicidal Depression Turns Into Terrorism

Authorities and investigators are trying to figure out what caused Germanwings' co-pilot Andreas Lubitz to...

March 26, 2015

How Not to Get Rid of Your Anger: Venting

Have you been trying to give up anger for lent? How's it working for you?...

March 24, 2015

An ‘Unshakable Faith’: Honoring a Contemporary Martyr

In a few minutes, I will join others here at United Theological Seminary of the...

March 18, 2015

What if the “World” is Actually the “Church”? (Kierkegaard for Lent)

One of my all-time favorite Kierkegaard texts is Practice in Christianity, published in 1848 (along...

March 18, 2015

An Irish-Inspired Painting that Will Lift Your Spirits

This post is a day late, but not a dollar short. Yesterday, Chicago artist and...

March 16, 2015

Bi-Partisan Prejudice: On the Universality of Confirmation Bias

Over at the Black, White and Grey blog, they refer to a recent study which...

March 11, 2015

Kierkegaard’s Christ, for Lent: “Redeemer and Prototype”

When I am asked by people who are curious about Kierkegaard which text they should...

March 09, 2015

Ella Baker: The Democratic Alernative to the Lone, Charismatic Leader

My Missional Theology class is working through Cornel West and Christa Buschendorf's recent book, Black...

March 05, 2015

Christianity’s Failure as a Hero System (A Psychologist Diagnoses the Church)

As some of you know, I've been reading the fascinating psychologist Ernest Becker. He believed...

March 03, 2015

After the Fall of Professional Ministry, What?

As much of the American church continues to decline (especially mainline Protestantism and now also...

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