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“Theology After Google” Streamed

By Tripp Fuller • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: features, pomo

The Theology After Google Conference will be streamed for all those not enjoying the SoCal sun this week.  We would love to get your feedback, some conversation, and questions for the presenters through our Twitter Twub (#tag10).  Here’s the event bookstore if you are so inspired.
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The Theology After Google Bookstore

By Tripp Fuller • Mar 6th, 2010 • Category: books, engaging

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Conference Info Here



Beta Faith with Philip Clayton, Spencer Burke, and Oozers: Homebrewed Christianity 75

By Tripp Fuller • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: conversations, emergent, philosophy, podcast, pomo

One of the greatest insights of the Google-World is the freedom of Beta. A Beta is more than a product not-yet-ready-for-consumption, but a way of thinking, creating, and living. It owns being unfinished. It expects contribution, evolution, transparency. For a long time all of culture was under a spell. It believed in the [...]

 
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the future of the church….

By Tripp Fuller • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: conversations, living, philosophy

Bruce Epperly is one of the coolest dudes I know.  I had a chat with him about the future of the church, the emerging church, the new shapes of religion and spirituality on the ground, and other theological tid bits.  I hope you enjoy it.  If you do check out his blog series here.



Why do we believe in a God?

By Tripp Fuller • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: books, philosophy, science, thinking

Do you believe in God?  Is it because your brain or genes tells you to?  Is it natural to do so?  Did it serve an important part in our evolution as a species?  Do we need to evolve past it?  Is religious belief a by-product of the structures of our brain?  Would it bother you [...]



Who is God?

By Tripp Fuller • Feb 25th, 2010 • Category: conversations, thinking

“God?”  Who or what is God?  That was the most popular question for my interviews with the’ Transforming Theology’ theologians.  Here are their answers.  I am sure the diversity of answers will get your brain a movin’.  It may inspire you to attempt to answer the question yourself.  If so check out the 100 word [...]



What is wrong with ‘Progressive Theology?’

By Tripp Fuller • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: conversations, thinking

You may not be exactly sure what ‘progressive theology’ entails, but a pretty easy way to figure it out is listening to ‘progressive theologians’ tell you what they think is wrong with it. Here are a bunch of notable theologians answering the question. Check them out and let me know what you would [...]



What book-stack introverts agree upon…

By Tripp Fuller • Feb 20th, 2010 • Category: books, engaging

….Eric Reitan’s book “Is God a Delusion?” is awesome!!!!  Choice magazine just named it ‘academic book of the year.’ Of course all the Deacons remember his amazing appearance on the HBC podcast, but little did we know just how many librarians were Deacons.  That is good news to me because I absolutely loved getting to [...]



Video Games & Theology?

By Tripp Fuller • Feb 19th, 2010 • Category: living

Who hasn’t had a couple months in their life where they were obsessed with a video game?
Well I guess the oldies out there may not know that experience but I got say I spent many a days rocking out with Link trying to save Zelda and I am pretty sure that despite tons of hours [...]



The Clayton \ Dennett Conversation…Evolution, God, Religion, Science, and other philosophical goodies!

By Tripp Fuller • Feb 16th, 2010 • Category: conversations, philosophy, science, thinking

Here’s my attempt to stream this conversation.  It should go live right before 2pm on the West Coast.

Here’s Clayton’s Pre-Debate Post \ John gives a super recap \ Philip’s post-debate reflection \ Bob Rhodes reflects on the conversation \ newspaper writeup