PATHEOS – March 2012 Just a few days before Lent began this year and in anticipation of it, Doug Pagitt–who somehow always manages to pastor us all, thank God– set a date for the two of us to engage in a Skyped conversation about Lent. But not about Lent in general, he said. Rather, he [...]

The other day while having dinner with friends I subconsciously reached my hand toward the attractive woman seated next to me. It was an effort to steal a private moment of affection with my wife by a brief grasp of her hand. Everything was perfect except for the fact that the woman sitting next to [...]

Here is my conversation with Bishop John Shelby Spong on his book “Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World” from my Radio Show. In the conversation I ask John why people are not hearing from him the point he is trying to make, that the Bible is important to our lives and we should fully [...]

Diana Butler Bass’ Christianity after Religion explores the tension between spirituality and religion, and experience andbelief.  Her work is more descriptivethan constructive, but it sets the agenda for Christians who wish to addresstwenty-first century spiritual challenges and not the issues of a bygone era.  Bass notes that belief has oftenbeen a deterrent to taking Christianity [...]

In the third installment of my conversation with Phyllis Tickle about Lent we talk about the physical nature of spirituality. You can follow the entire lent conversation on the Lent Blog here. You can watch all the videos in our conversation here.

Patheos.com is hosting a lent conversation and Phyllis Tickle and I offered the first few postings. Here is the second. I asked Phyllis if there is something about the yearly pattern of Lent where we are pulled back into the church story, given church language that doesn’t sit well with many of us who don’t [...]