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September 2017

September 14, 2017
Dorothy Sölle, a radical Christian theologian (her memoir is sub-titled Memoir of a Radical Christian),...
September 08, 2017
I'm going to shift gears for a while with my blogging. Instead of trying to...
September 02, 2017
OK, here's another thought I had about the so-called "Nashville Statement" that's been buzzing around...

August 2017

August 31, 2017
Jonathan Merritt has an interesting take on the "Nashville Statement," a conservative Christian "manifesto" (that's...
August 25, 2017
While many of Trump's advisory board members (business, arts) jumped ship following his (widely perceived...
August 19, 2017
Donald Trump thinks that the removal of confederate monuments is tantamount to destroying culture. Recently...
August 11, 2017
In Luther's Freedom of a Christian, he explicates his view of the relation between faith...
August 10, 2017
I'm happy to announce that a book I've been working on for the past two...
August 08, 2017
The following post is the first of a multi-post series called a “Theology of Protest:...
August 07, 2017
Check out this upcoming, free (!) conference, held at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN....
August 04, 2017
The following post is the first of a multi-post series called a "Theology of Protest:...
August 03, 2017
If you've been following my blog in the past few weeks, you know I've been...
August 02, 2017
Martin Luther is often thought of as advocating a type of "forensic justification," a kind...

July 2017

July 27, 2017
When I co-taught a course on Luther's theology last summer, we had a lively discussion...
July 26, 2017
“All major religions agree on one thing: the deepest desire of the human person is...
July 21, 2017
Heresy isn't the same as doctrinal error. Heresy is a willful disobedience of the truth--a...
July 18, 2017
Dorothy Sölle (1929-2003) might be one of the best theologians you've never heard of. She...
July 14, 2017
I recently looked into the history of the Beatles' 1970 song, "Let it Be," after...
July 12, 2017
Amid the scattered pieces of the the Don Jr. / Russia email bombshell, a group...
July 04, 2017
Kierkegaard, writing in Danish newspaper article, in the final year of his life (1855), reflects...

June 2017

June 30, 2017
Does the current state of science tell us anything about the possibility--or impossibility--of the resurrection?...
June 28, 2017
Recently a Southern Baptist church in Dallas made headlines with their "freedom Sunday" service, a...
June 25, 2017
I occasionally hear the term, "missional hermeneutics." It's a mouthful, and it requires a little...
June 22, 2017
In a recent summer reading list, I mentioned John Swinton's Becoming Friends of Time: Disability,...
June 22, 2017
Philando Castile, an African-American man from St. Paul, MN, died in a hospital on July...
June 16, 2017
Who did Paul think wrecked creation? In Romans 8:20 Paul uses a curious phrase: " for...
June 15, 2017
Summer is already well under way, but it's not too late to post my recommended...
June 09, 2017
When Donald Trump needs a hug, he can count on conservative, white evangelicals. Yesterday he...
June 06, 2017
When I taught theology at an evangelical seminary, I ended every lecture on heaven/hell by...
June 05, 2017
Anticipated Publication Date (Fortress Press, Theology for the People series) is November 1  
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