Tony Jones taps his foot impatiently, muttering that much of the response to his challenge, thus far, has been “throat-clearing” and “prolegomena.” And he grumbles that “poetry is something of a cop-out.” That’s a fair cop w/r/t the two posts I’ve written subsequent to his challenge and explicitly in response to them. But it also [...]

(This is the second piece of my response to Tony Jones’ “Challenge to Progressive Theo-bloggers.” The first piece is here.) Whenever possible, I try to avoid gendered pronouns for God. Admittedly, this can sometimes make for clumsy syntax, but that clumsiness is a feature, not a bug. Because the main point of this exercise is [...]

Tony Jones has a challenge and an invitation for “all progressive theo-bloggers.” Write something substantive about God. Not about Jesus, not about the Bible, but about God. I expect to fail this challenge. And I intend to fail it in several parts. For the first part, here, I’m bringing in a ringer: Wislawa Szymborska (as [...]