12 Blogs of Christmas, Day 5: The Gift of Subversion

December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Many thanks to Matthew Paul Turner and World Vision for inviting me to take part in their “12 Blogs of Christmas” project. The simple, open-ended request that was given to us was to write about “the true meaning of Christmas.” You can see my entry, which came out Friday, December 9th, by clicking on the [...]

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Confessions of a Prayer-Averse Minister

December 7, 2011 By 13 Comments

I’m sitting in the airport as I write this, halfway between home and Philadelphia, where I’m joining dozens of other author/speakers at Tony Campolo’s Red Letter Christians retreat. Frankly, I was shocked I was even invited, particularly when I browsed the list of invitees. Bruce Reyes Chow, Tony Jones, Peter Rollins, Rachel Held Evans, Gareth [...]

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Advent Blog Challenge & Free Gift

December 6, 2011 By 3 Comments

As most of you know, I have my blog hosted at Patheos, a wonderful interfaith site for thinkers, writers, readers and activists to come together and wrestle with any number of faith-related topics. Recently, Deb Arca (our Progressive Christian Portal editor) and Tony Jones (a noted blogger for the same section) invited several of us [...]

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