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November 2014

November 22, 2014
This week I'm at AAR/SBL, and I'm liveblogging some of the sessions I'm attending. This...
November 14, 2014
Revolution Church — which was founded by Jay Bakker and has followed him from Phoenix...

October 2014

October 24, 2014
Just when you thought emergent was dead, scholars are showing that it's very much alive...
October 20, 2014
Over the last two weeks, Pope Francis made some courageous steps in dragging the Catholic...
October 02, 2014
Putting together the roster of speakers for an event is an art, not a science....

February 2014

February 06, 2014
Here, in living color, we see the church's failure to engage an entire generation: The...

January 2014

January 13, 2014
The Reverend Joy Bennett serving me communion on August 30, 2012. It happened on August...
January 10, 2014
I'm at Christianity21 this week, a gathering produced by Doug Pagitt, Sarah Cunningham, and Your...

November 2013

November 29, 2013
This is our best deal ever on Christianity21 and Progressive Youth Ministry. Use the coupon...
November 29, 2013
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. If you're here in the States, I hope you did,...
November 27, 2013
My post from last Friday continues to generate passionate responses from all sides. I've gotten...
November 26, 2013
I've gotten many emails about my call for schism over the role of women in...
November 22, 2013
I don't take this lightly. I very much take Jesus' prayer for unity in the...

October 2013

October 12, 2013
That's what Mark Oppenheimer asks as he reports on the troubled legacy of John Howard...
October 02, 2013
A couple weeks ago, I started a Hump Day Series called "Got It Goin' On."...
October 02, 2013
I'll admit that sometimes I feel that I've walked out of a Portlandia sketch. I'm...

August 2013

August 09, 2013
When I started as the Minister to Youth & Young Adults at Colonial Church in...
August 07, 2013
All this week, as part of Patheos's "Passing on the Faith" series, I'm writing about...
August 06, 2013
I just got back from a week at a dude ranch in Colorado. It was...

July 2013

July 23, 2013
That's what Pastor Phil Wyman and his small congregation have been trying to do for...
July 20, 2013
This will come as no surprise to readers of this blog, but it's time to...
July 19, 2013
Two super-popular Christian leaders have recently made public statements about what happens when you die....
July 13, 2013
July 08, 2013
(Reuters) - The Church of England published a plan on Friday to approve the ordination...
July 06, 2013
This is the second of two excerpts from a book that I happily endorsed: Emerging...

June 2013

June 25, 2013
Unlike a lot of you, I don't have to prepare a sermon each week. In...
June 17, 2013
Geez Magazine is running their second sermon contest: 30 (More) Sermons You'll Never Hear in...

May 2013

May 20, 2013
All this week, animate.faith is the focus of the Patheos Book Club. It's a product...
May 01, 2013
When I talk to journalists, I regularly need to ask them not to refer to...

April 2013

April 24, 2013
This morning on Marketplace Morning Report, Krissy Clark filed a story entitled, "What Does 'Welfare'...
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