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October 2015

October 13, 2015

Why Do So Many Christians Still Deny Climate Change?

How in God's green earth are so many people still denying the reality of climate...

October 05, 2015

Stop, Drop, and Reconsider: On the Relation Between Religious Belief and Action

Kathryn Tanner is a first-rate theologian. Her book, The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

Pannenberg on the Strange, Political Nature of the Kingdom

In participation for my Christian Ethics class this semester, I read Wolfhart Panneberg's (the late,...

August 2015

August 24, 2015

We Don’t Need More Passion, Mr. Trump; We Need More Com-passion

The latest Trump-tastic news involves an incident in Boston in which two brothers, Scott and...

August 18, 2015

A Progressive Christian View of the Trinity

Elizabeth Johnson's book, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse, is one of...

August 10, 2015

Why Are People Attracted to Intelligent Design?

Intelligent Design (ID) has made a lot of headway in conservative Christian circles over the...

August 04, 2015

How to be a Responsible Religious Pluralist

So many people today are struggling to figure out how to relate to one another,...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Does Our Need for Religion Invalidate it?

Why did religion form in early forms of human life? What is the relation between...

July 15, 2015

David Tracy’s Plea for Avoiding Reductionism when Interpreting Religion

Wise words from David Tracy's Plurality and Ambiguity, regarding the situation of plurality and the challenge of...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The Danger of Asking Hard Questions: Tom Oord, J.R. Daniel Kirk, and Evangelical Anxiety

It's a dangerous time to be a progressive thinker in an Evangelical institution these days....

June 23, 2015

8 Books on Death, Evil, and Alienation

I love and hate gathering my book lists for upcoming courses. One the one...

June 02, 2015

The Catch-22 of Progressive Christianity

An editorial by Damon Linker explores the "catch 22" of progressive / liberal Christianity, in...

May 2015

May 15, 2015

The Blues as “Secular Spirituals”: James Cone on B.B. King

Blues legend B.B. King died on Thursday, at 89 years, after an announcement several weeks...

May 04, 2015

If You Think ReThinking is Easy, Try Riding this Backwards Bike

Destin Sandlin of the SmarterEveryDay YouTube channel has a challenge for you: Try riding the...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Should Seminaries Train the Churches?

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

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 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,...

December 2014

December 05, 2014

Beyond the Binaries, Through Contemplation: Sarah Coakley’s New Systematic Theology

I have recently picked up Sarah Coakley's important new work, God, Sexuality, and the Self:...

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