Theoblogy
I’ve been Wordling my way through the books I’ve written. This week’s edition is The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. Read more
I’ve been Wordling my way through the books I’ve written. This week’s edition is The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. Read more
My sojourn to Philadelphia last week took me close enough to the gravitational center of my doctoral studies that could not help but be sucked into the tractor beam of Princeton Theological Seminary. While there, I had a wonderful lunch with my primary advisor, Kenda Dean, during which we mapped out a schedule by which I can complete my dissertation during this academic year. What that means, in short, is that I have to revise my first four chapters and... Read more
Over at the lectionary blog that I help curate, TheHardestQuestion.org, I used the video response this week to ponder why in the world “Christ the King Sunday” was introduced in 2915 1925, just as the last kings of the Western world were going the way of the dodo bird. I mean, I get that Christ is the King of All Creation and all that. I’ve got no problem with it. It’s just that it seems a bit anachronistic to introduce... Read more
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I think that I look particularly badass in this ad that Fuller Seminary put together for the Doctor of Ministry cohort that I am teaching over the next three years. I mean, who wouldn’t want to study Christian spirituality with this guy?!? (If you want to join this cohort, click here to find out more.) Read more
I’ve put the Trucker Frank videos from my YouTube channel into a playlist, so now you can watch them all in order! Read more
Here’s our Hump Day Wordle for the Week: Ask Seek Knock: Prayers to Change Your Life (2008): Read more
I’d love to have you join me at this! Join three days of lively conversation about the “emerging” future of Christianity and non-dualism, a foundational belief of emerging Christians throughout the world. Featured Speakers Richard Rohr Suzanne Stabile Tony Jones Phyllis Tickle Brian McLaren via Emerging Christianity Texas :: New Ways of Thinking, Being, and Following Christ :: CAC Conferences. Read more
What with the dissertation hanging over my head, I don’t get a lot of time to read for pleasure. However, I did buy a few books last January, spurred on by several “Best Books of the Decade” lists. It took me over half the year to finish Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (which I loved). It’s taken me slightly less long to complete Dave Eggers’s masterful, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. The book chronicles Eggers’s early twenties, during which... Read more
A nice piece on one of my best friends. (I’ve read the manuscript of Jay’s forthcoming book, and it’s excellent!) Bakker is certain that if Christianity actually modeled itself on the life of Christ, then these contradictions would disappear, leaving behind the most basic tenets: Jesus was resurrected, and he died for our sins. “There’s just something about the idea of grace and the life of Christ,” he says, “ that I can’t get away from.” The rest of Protestant... Read more
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