A couple weeks ago, I hypothesized that Rod’s disdain for SSM has something to do with his conversion to Orthodoxy — actually, to the kind of personality that would convert to Orthodoxy. In response to that post, I was contacted by an old friend, Claudia Mair Burney, aka Ragamuffin Diva. I just got another book in the mail yesterday that caricatured emergent as a bunch of white guys with goatees. Mair is not white, and the last time I saw... Read more
Last week, Doug Kmiec went on Colbert and became the next in a long line of people: Those who’ve gone on Colbert and said what I want to say on Colbert. Kmiec said what more and more of us are saying: Churches and clergy should get out of the marriage business. And by that I mean the legal marriage business. So, let’s think about this. I’m an ordained clergyperson (that’s right, guilty as charged: I don’t believe in ordination, but... Read more
From John La Grou: Volume Two of the Wikiklesia Project has been announced. Taking Flight: Reclaiming the Female Half of God’s Image. A Journey of Freedom and Reconciliation The award winning Wikiklesia Project (www.wikiklesia.org) broke new ground as a crowd sourced, collaborative ecclesial publishing model. Wiki One presented a “far reaching exploration of spiritual journey contextualized within a culture of increasingly immersive technology.” Wiki Two enlarges the virtual anthology by exploring the rapidly changing perception of women in faith leadership and how their... Read more
D.Min. Students Take Note: Both of the events listed below are being offered for credit at Fuller Theological Seminary. Fuller is offering 4 credits for each event, and Tony Jones will be the professor of record. The course will consist of some assigned reading prior to the event, attendance at the conference, and a written reflection paper. If you’re getting a D.Min. from another ATS-accredited school, you can transfer up to 12 credits from Fuller Seminary toward your degree. In... Read more
In one of my early posts on same sex marriage, I wrote that I used to be in the “natural law” camp of persons who said that, thought there’s not an overwhelming amount of verses in the Bible about homosexuality (six, to be exact), there’s a strong argument to be made from Genesis. It’s the old “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” Or, as I wrote in the earlier post, “The plumbing’s not right.” For a funny take on... Read more
You may recall that Kevin DeYoung, co-author of the book, Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), was on a panel discussion with me a few weeks ago at the Christian Book Expo in Dallas. I have profound problems with Kevin’s book, the foremost being that 1) The authors completely ignored my published books and quoted exclusively from two blog posts, and 2) Kevin’s co-author attended a small, graduate-level class I taught, pretending to be a student,... Read more
The doods at Homebrewed Christianity have taken my conversation with Bart Ehrman about his book, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know about Them). You can, of course, get it on iTunes, or you can go directly to Homebrewed Christianity and listen to it there. Congrats to Tripp and Chad for 50 episodes and a massive listenership. This week they even have a special message from a mafia boss. Read more
I ran my book, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier though Wordle. It’s 87.790 words, and this is what I got: Read more
Whilst I was at Furman University this week (which, I must say, is one of the most beautiful campuses I’ve ever seen), I received an email from Princeton Seminary granting me an extension till March, 2010, to finish my dissertation. Upon hearing this, my host at Furman, Vaughn CroweTipton, told me the following fable. The Rabbit, the Fox, and the Lion One day, a rabbit was casually hopping back to his hole when, just as he was about to jump... Read more
Earlier this week, I interviewed Bart Ehrman, New Testament scholar at UNC. We talked about his latest book, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know about Them). Among the other topics: philosophical hermeneutics, seminary education, preaching, conspiracy theories, and his Holy Week appearance on The Colbert Report. I think we had a really enjoyable conversation, and he pretty much stayed off his usual talking points from this book tour. What I’m saying is,... Read more
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