I’ve got the above hanging in my garage, the result of a successful hunt last weekend. That means I’ve got some plucking in my future. Anyone got a great pheasant recipe that they care to share? So far this year I’ve made pheasant soup and a cumin-pheasant goulash, so I’m looking for something different. Read more
Over the next couple weeks, I’ll be writing about the essays in the newest book by the author who penned the book that I names the 2008 Religious Book of the Year. Please join me: Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between by Jeff Sharlet No one explores the borderlands of belief and skepticism quite like Jeff Sharlet. He is ingenious, farsighted, and able to excavate the worlds of others, even the flakiest and most... Read more
This post is part of a three-part series on The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith The Ailment – The Cure – The Fatal Flaw This is an extremely difficult post to write, primarily because I consider Christian Smith a friend. I am a huge fan of his work, and I have admiringly cited him in almost all of my academic work. Both his research and his theory are, I... Read more
He sat in his own pew! How about the guy who streaked in church, did you hear about him? (more…) Read more
This post is part of a three-part series on The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith The Ailment – The Cure – The Fatal Flaw This book is fatally flawed. I know, I wrote that yesterday, and you’re going to have to wait until tomorrow for the payoff on that. But I wanted to remind you that I think that before I today look at Christian Smith’s solution to the... Read more
Craig and Nancy Goodwin’s family is launching into another year of experimenting with food and faith Craig Goodwin, author of my favorite book on Christian living, has launched a new project. After his family’s year-long experiment with Year of Plenty, they’ve now launched into a new experiment called, Tables of Plenty: Starting on November 28, 2011 with the Orthodox Nativity fast, our family is dedicating a year to explore the role of food in Christian spiritual formation, one month at a... Read more
Herbert Chilstrom is the retired presiding bishop of the ELCA, and before that he was a bishop in Minnesota. In his work, he developed strong ties with the Catholic bishops of Minnesota, a group that is currently fighting to constitutionalize a prohibition of same sex marriage. And Chilstrom doesn’t get it: Over my 35 years as an active and retired bishop I have come to know hundreds of gay and lesbian persons. I have yet to meet even one who... Read more
Patheos has partnered with Emergent Village to create a new portal for innovative and experimental thoughts around church, mission, and faith. It’s called the Emergent Village Voice, and it’s a community blog that launched just this week. It will be created by dozens of contributors. In his initial post, Andrew Jones draws a line between the ECM and café churches in Asia: (more…) Read more
This post is part of a three-part series on The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith This book is fatally flawed. That is, I think there’s a problem with this book that undercuts it’s premise entirely. But you’re going to have to wait until Friday to read my opinion on that. In the meantime, I’m going to look at Smith’s diagnosis of the ailment affecting how some people read the... Read more
Patheos just posted the most recent “theoblogger challenge,” in which they ask bloggers to respond to a question in 100 words or less. This season’s question: “Is God Coming?” Here is Christian Piatt‘s contribution: Everything could be in this harmony of moments, nothing being until it already is, then was, then gone, improvised impulse convulsing in conversation that never ends. We call, respond, swell and surge, with urges too deep to claim as only ours. We jump into nothing, led... Read more
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