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April 2015

April 27, 2015
It is impossible to try to digest the magnitude of the loss: suffering, death, pain,...
April 24, 2015
The primary objective of seminaries has long been (primarily) to train pastors and ministers for...
April 23, 2015
Creflo Dollar's dream of acquiring a $65 million dollar jet to facilitate his ministry may...
April 22, 2015
God brought a world into being, and thereby became vulnerable, instilling within creation a measure...
April 22, 2015
Biola University is putting on a unique event on April 30: A dialogue between Cornel...
April 21, 2015
My post on the "10 Books Every Seminary Graduate Should Read" seemed to strike a...
April 20, 2015
On May 1, we're throwing a party to celebrate the inauguration of a new theology...
April 20, 2015
I have decided to write a series of posts in which I explain my own...
April 14, 2015
Graduation is coming up quickly. Seminarians all around the country are frantically finishing up papers,...
April 09, 2015
The other night in class, a student shared a testimony of sorts that touched me...
April 09, 2015
A week or so ago, I wrote a post exploring a "link" between clinical depression and...
April 07, 2015
Conflict. Imperial violence. Embezzlement. Declarations of heresy. Coercion. Arrest and torture. Exile. This is all...
April 06, 2015
I vividly recall reading the Rolling Stone story, "A Rape on Campus," last November. The...
April 03, 2015
As I wrote in my last post, many theologians throughout history have been freaked out...
April 02, 2015
The Garden of Gethsemane story has given theologians fits. Many of them, particularly in the...
April 01, 2015
I'm reading a bit of Robert Jensen's Systematic Theology at the moment. I like how...

March 2015

March 31, 2015
Earlier today I posted a blog responding to an essay by Andy Borowitz regarding the...
March 31, 2015
The most difficult transition in early Christianity, which of course began as a sect of...
March 29, 2015
So I am a progressive Christian, but I believe in the bodily resurrection. Jesus rose...
March 29, 2015
Imagine if the Germanwings plane was brought down in an act of political or religious...
March 27, 2015
Authorities and investigators are trying to figure out what caused Germanwings' co-pilot Andreas Lubitz to...
March 26, 2015
Have you been trying to give up anger for lent? How's it working for you?...
March 24, 2015
In a few minutes, I will join others here at United Theological Seminary of the...
March 18, 2015
One of my all-time favorite Kierkegaard texts is Practice in Christianity, published in 1848 (along...
March 18, 2015
This post is a day late, but not a dollar short. Yesterday, Chicago artist and...
March 16, 2015
Over at the Black, White and Grey blog, they refer to a recent study which...
March 11, 2015
When I am asked by people who are curious about Kierkegaard which text they should...
March 09, 2015
My Missional Theology class is working through Cornel West and Christa Buschendorf's recent book, Black...
March 05, 2015
As some of you know, I've been reading the fascinating psychologist Ernest Becker. He believed...
March 03, 2015
As much of the American church continues to decline (especially mainline Protestantism and now also...
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