Hippie Heretic

Top 25 Favorite Hymns of Progressive Christians

May 31, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

Based on your responses, here are the 25 hymns most loved by progressive Christians—and we sure do love our hymns! I was surprised by a few of these. Read more

Keith Giles on Jesus and the Bible

May 28, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

0 Comments

Check out the video of Keith’s talk (along with a brief appearance by yours truly), and be sure to grab Keith’s new book, Jesus Unbound, when it releases on July 4 of this year! Read more

Has Inerrancy Become More Important than Orthodoxy?

May 23, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

0 Comments

The small conference I attended this past weekend may not represent American Christians on the whole, yet it is consistent with where much of the conservative church in America appears to be heading. Read more

What Hymns Still Work for You as a Progressive Christian?

May 9, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

0 Comments

I love the hymns I sang as a child, but so many of them are problematic. If you’re a progressive Christian who still appreciates hymns, then I’d like to hear from you. Read more

The Theology of Battlestar Galactica (A New Podcast)

April 16, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

0 Comments

For any fans of science fiction and theology, I’d like to draw your attention to a new podcast I’m a part of, along with fellow-Patheos-blogger Keith Giles, plus Jennifer Neyhart and John Weldy. Read more

Hell & Mr. Pearson (A Review of Come Sunday)

April 12, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

0 Comments

Come Sunday starts off with a familiar scenario. Our main character is seated on a plane next to a woman, and because he knows she’ll burn in hell for all of eternity if he doesn’t say something, he has to engage her in conversation in order to lead her to salvation. Read more

How Smoking a Pipe Turned Me Into a Calvinist

April 1, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

0 Comments

Everyone knows of the health risks associated with smoking a pipe. But no one ever warned me about the far greater risk it posed to my soul. I thus humbly offer my cautionary tale, in the hope that you may be spared my dreadful plight. Read more

Different Faiths, Same Religion

March 21, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

0 Comments

We all have a faith, and we all have a religion, but the two aren’t always the same. And those of different faiths may well share the same religion. Read more

My “Silly Little Article” and a Powerful Response

March 14, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

0 Comments

Jera Brown asks, “Why must it be silly to imagine that an embodied version of God could be anything other than a cis-gendered man?” Read more

A Response to My Former Self on Unity & Theological Essentials

January 29, 2018 By Chuck McKnight

0 Comments

Four years ago, I wrote a chapter for the book, Simple Church: Unity Within Diversity. Here’s where I now disagree with what I wrote back then. Read more