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January 2019

January 28, 2019
I have wanted this essay to be more readily available than it is, so am...
January 27, 2019
In most cases, the church is wasting precious time and capital attempting to redevelop dying...
January 23, 2019
Perhaps as a Gen Xer I am too influenced by the twisted rise and flourishing...
January 22, 2019
Faith communities frequently and inadvertently make life together more difficult for some kinds of people...
January 22, 2019
Here's why.  Only Gen Xers are jaded enough to look at what is going on...
January 21, 2019
Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age By Bruce Rogers-Vaughn. Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pp. “We...
January 20, 2019
I wonder if the reconciliation paradigm for race relations in the United States is a...
January 18, 2019
Sometimes all I really want to do as a pastor is tell people how much...
January 17, 2019
He just appears at the river ready for baptism. Not solitary or lonely. Rather, a...
January 17, 2019
Yesterday I was chatting with a parishioner during a hospital visit and, wanting to shift...
January 17, 2019
According to my letter of call, my congregation called me to preach and teach. I...
January 06, 2019
All my friends on Facebook told me they loved this recent meme: How do I...

December 2018

December 31, 2018
The struggle is real... In some ways, 2018 was rough for communities of faith. If...
December 20, 2018
tonight I'm thinking about a Christmas story, maybe a story not frequently told this way,...
December 14, 2018
A guest Advent post by David Greer. They call this a flash-heated death. The death...
December 03, 2018
It turns out publishers have dramatically under-estimated the appetite for books about Donald Trump. Even...

November 2018

November 27, 2018
Growing Into New Urbanism I live in a growing city in a growing region. Fayetteville...
November 25, 2018
Let's call a thing what it is. The denomination in which I serve (the ELCA)...
November 22, 2018
Here's a little pre-turkey political theology for your day. Consider, when someone says "America first"...
November 10, 2018
Contemporary denial of climate change is not unlike the Galileo affair around 1610. The church...
November 02, 2018
Also Known As the Pareto Principle It's sometimes called the Pareto Principle, named after the...

October 2018

October 25, 2018
Welcome to the 501st anniversary of the Reformation! I'll be your host, Reverend Doctor Clint...
October 15, 2018
It's been hard lately to make pastoral or theological sense of many things. I don't...
October 10, 2018
There's a big Evangelical church in most communities. Multi-site. Well known lead pastor. Prominent location...
October 04, 2018
Creation and Trinity A lot of Christian theology over the centuries has been focused, not...

September 2018

September 21, 2018
  Our first evening in Tucson is a briefing. The room is full of people...
September 15, 2018
Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther: A Review Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther.  Michael P. DeJonge. Oxford University...
September 06, 2018
Let's be honest. Most people don't read the Bible. Back in the day, this was...
September 01, 2018
  There are two common misunderstandings of Luther's theology. If I can correct both here,...

August 2018

August 23, 2018
Dan Skogen maintains a web site, Exposing the ELCA, exclusively focused on exposing the heterodoxy...
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