If you like good people and good wine then check out the enso winery. One of the men behind the grapes is Ryan Sharp of The Cobalt Season fame. Cobalt makes awesome music and the whole Sharp family is annoyingly amazingly talented so this wine venture is sure to succeed. If you are in Oakland [...]
Keith Ward, who will be at Big Tent Christianity, has an amazing lecture on the so called ‘Clash of Civilizations’ between Islam and Christianity. Because I have heard enough ignorant and bigoted rhetoric coming out of Christians’ mouths I thought I would share this. Of course HBC Deacons would never say such things but your [...]
Thoughts on Decolonizing Biblical Studies: A View from the Margins by Fernando Segovia. This book is pretty sweet. Segovia’s reflection on twentieth century biblical criticism focuses on the shift from seeing the text as a means, an entry point to reach back to the historical locus from which the text originated, and the text as [...]
Today is Paul Tillich‘s birthday. In honor I thought I would share a bit of a conversation he had with students that is recorded in a book titled ‘Ultimate Concern.’ You can read the entire book for free @ religion-online! Professor: What of other basic differences between Christianity and, say, Buddhism? Buddha and Christ as [...]
This past Sunday I got to preach on my favorite Psalm! In Psalm 82 the God of Israel puts other deities on trial for failing to support social justice and ends up condemning them to death. Pretty sweet text and if you are interested here’s the sermon audio. (right click and save as if you [...]
Big Tent Christianity is not about BIG numbers. In fact, it is interested neither in big numbers nor becoming the new Christendom Christianity. SO here’s a little syncroblog feed back from Soren Kierkegaard. He is one of the most ingenious authors the world has ever known and this parable is from his ‘Attack Upon Christendom.’ [...]
Jurgen Moltmann’s newest book, Sun of Righteousness Arise!, he spends six chapters examining the resurrection and its role in Christian theology. His general observation is this, in light of the numerous crises that the world faces (ex. ecological crisis, nuclear threat) the human species has come to see itself as mortal. This calls the church [...]
John Caputo is master of deconstruction, a philosopher smitten with its undoing, a theologian who confesses God’s weakness, an author who is actually fun to read and one of the most popular guests on the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast! Not only is John Caputo coming back on the podcast but he has been releasing a ton [...]
When John Caputo asks you to plug something…….YOU DO CFP: The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (Syracuse) Postmodernism, Culture and Religion 4 “The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” Syracuse University | April 7-9, 2011 Plenary Speakers: JOHN D. CAPUTO Watson Professor of Religion and Philosophy Syracuse University (http://religion.syr.edu/Caputo.html) PHILIP GOODCHILD Professor of Theology [...]
‘A rabbi, a minister and an imam walk into a classroom, and it’s no joke.’ That’s the opening line from the AP story on Claremont School of Theology’s new University project. The plan is basically to have all three Abrahamic faiths training ministers in separate schools within one larger University. Al Mohler (among other conservative [...]
