“Your body is a wrapped lollipop. When you have sex with a man, he unwraps your lollipop and sucks on it. It may feel great at the time, but, unfortunately, when he’s done with you, all you have left for your next partner is a poorly wrapped, saliva-fouled sucker.” I cringed behind the wheel, appalled at the quoted words I heard coming from my audio copy of “Half the Sky” as authors Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristoff discussed this statement uttered by... Read more
PATHEOS – December 2012 November 2012 was about as singular as any month could ever contrive to be. Most certainly it was as portentous as any should ever wish to be. In this country, it saw the election of our first Buddhist senator, our first Hindu congressperson, as well as of our first nontheist one. Almost as thought-evoking is the knowledge that on post-election Saturday, after all the tallies were finally in, Al Mohler, Jr., the highly visible... Read more
Anthony Smith continues the conversation about diversity within emergence Christianity (more…) Read more
In part, this post was sparked by Phyllis Tickle and her post Christendom article. Over the years I have been struck, more than once, by the story of the Tower of Babel: Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “ come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly”…… then they said, “Come let us build a... Read more
I had the privilege of talking with Joan Steffend about her book Peace In Peace Out on my show today. I have known Joan for a few years and have been a fan of hers since she was on KARE11 in the Twin Cities and on Decorating Cents on HGTV. Now she is doing interesting work around Peace initiatives. Here is our conversation: Read more
I talked with Efrem Smith about his book, The Post-Black & Post-White Church on my Radio Show. Here is the Audio and Video of this fun and lively conversation. Read more
One week ago today, my good friend Phil Shepherd and I launched a new kind of Christian television network … on YouTube. It’s called Sogo, and it’s short for “social Gospel” — social media plus Gospel message. (more…) Read more
Yesterday I had this thought in my mind tumbling around like laundry stuck in the spin cycle. I just couldn’t seem to open the door and get it out. It was this thought ; the ” fatality ” of truth. It ‘s truth that is in the quality or state of causing death or destruction, or truth that is in the condition of being destined for disaster. A lot of so called religious truth is like that, truth that has... Read more
” Remember me “, the thief on the cross yells across to the God-man, Jesus. It is a profoundly haunting human question. To die, a life expired… is it a button pushed and all memory of you is wiped from the hard drive of existence. I struggled with this scene at the end of the gospels for years. It was like the early theologians had written this cleverly constructed story… the piece, like the last piece of a puzzle. You... Read more
I chatted with Clay Morgan on my Radio Show about his book Undead. He has a nice take on what it means to be people who live full and enriched lives and gets at the idea from the lens of Zombies. Read more
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