Theoblogy
KOMO TV 11 — Seattle’s news leader — ran a story on Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church last night: Read more
KOMO TV 11 — Seattle’s news leader — ran a story on Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church last night: Read more
So, everytime I blog about gay in the church, or about same sex marriage — like I did this week — someone brings up the book by Robert Gagnon. It seems that, for a lot of people, his book is the final word on homosexuality and biblical Christianity. But the fracking book is $25, even on the Kindle!!! (C’mon, Abingdon, get with the program — no book should be that much on a Kindle.) So, I’m wondering if anyone has... Read more
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Every Wednesday during Lent, I’m going to explore an alternatives to the penal substitutionary understanding of the atonement, the dominant theory of the atonement in my part of the (theological and geographical) world. You can read all of the posts, and my past posts on this topic, here. I’ve got an ebook on the subject as well. In 1930, a relatively unknown Swedish bishop and theologian revived an understanding of the atonement that had largely been forgotten for 1,000 years.... Read more
Here’s a nice post from the Raven Foundation about whether and why Christians can support same sex marriage: Can faithful Christians support same-sex marriage? The question is coming up quite a bit these days, as states throughout the U.S. are dealing with legislation concerning the hot button issue. I’ll go a step further in answering the question – Not only can faithful Christians support same-sex marriage, faithful Christians should support same sex marriage. First, the can. The Bible is often... Read more
Andrew Sullivan money quote: For Santorum, as for Ratzinger, if your conscience says one thing, and the Pope says another, you obey the Pope, not your conscience. And for the Christianists, if your conscience or intelligence says one thing, and the Bible says another, you obey the Bible, not your conscience, and certainly not your intelligence. Because beneath Christianism is a deep fear of the human mind – as if they actually believe that reason is stronger than religion and... Read more
The Republican candidate for POTUS, who thinks that our president follows and unbiblical theology, thinks that mainliners are not ChristianL We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it... Read more
Andrew Rosenthal at the New York Times: Perhaps the most ridiculous argument against marriage equality is the one voiced most recently by David Bates, a Republican member of the New Hampshire legislature – that homosexuality is a choice, and thus same-sex marriage is not a civil rights issue. “Civil rights have to do with intrinsic qualities that a person just can’t change,” said Mr. Bates, the sponsor of a bill that would repeal New Hampshire’s marriage equality law. Being gay,... Read more
So, I’m currently living my own version of a Portlandia sketch, watching as many episodes of Battlestar Gallactica per day as I can without losing my job or getting my electricity shut off. I’m just about to complete season three (SO DON’T TELL ME HOW IT ENDS!!!). And, it occurs to me that the typologies present in the show’s characters are quite applicable to the Emergent Church Movement, another fleet of renegade survivors. (more…) Read more
I’m hard at work on a book about prayer. I’m trying to establish a reasonable, rational explanation of why we should pray. About what prayer accomplishes. About what effect prayer has on the Divine. One of the things it seems I have to get over is my very human predilection to understand things by cause-and-effect. I’m not the first one to tackle this, of course. David Hume thought a lot about cause-and-effect, including this famous billiard ball analogy: (more…) Read more
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