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Philip Clayton invites Daniel Dennett to a debate: Will the New Atheist Accept or Hide (again!)?

By Tripp Fuller • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: engaging, media, philosophy, science

Can Daniel Dennett be a public philosopher and engage in a real debate with someone who is both  a philosopher and theist?  Or, will he once again choose to display his rasslin’ rhetorical skills and pass on demonstrating the Apocalyptic fury his intellectual insights are reported to bring?  We will see.
One could call it [...]



Does your theology go off-roading?

By Tripp Fuller • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: conversations, emergent, engaging, politics, pomo, public policy

What do you get when you put two of the world’s top philosophical theologians, a prestigious university President, and me in a room with a camera?  A fun conversation.
At the American Academy of Religion I was able to join LeRon Shults, Philip Clayton, and Stephen Knapp for a discussion about how theology finds traction in [...]



Can progressive theologians talk about God’s Future?

By Tripp Fuller • Jan 28th, 2010 • Category: thinking

Karl Barth, the most influential theologian of the 20th century, said that all Christian theology is eschatology. The Apostle Paul is pretty serious, though flexible, about God’s future for the world. Jesus had a hard time NOT talking about the present-yet-coming Kin-dom of God. SO what happens when I asked some of [...]



Bart Ehrman’s “Jesus Interrupted” is coming to paperback….

By Tripp Fuller • Jan 27th, 2010 • Category: engaging

…so if you have listened to the podcast with him and Tony Jones and thought about getting the book you can now get it for 10 bucks.



Adam Walker Cleaveland on Theology After Google

By Tripp Fuller • Jan 25th, 2010 • Category: conversations, emergent, engaging, media, pomo

Theology After Google: Leveraging New Technologies and Networks for Transformative Ministry

We invite you to join us March 10-12, 2010 in Claremont, Calif., for a first-of-its-kind national conference, “Theology After Google.” Thanks to a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, we are able to keep registration costs low, as in 99 bucks.
Who is coming?
Tony Jones, [...]



What Would Google Do? When a theology class reads it

By Tripp Fuller • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: books, emergent, media, pomo, thinking

Jeff Jarvis has done us all a favor.  “What Would Google Do?” is a gift (well one you pay for). Through an engaging, informative, and flat out fun style he takes on his journey to reverse-engineer the company that defines ‘getting it’ today – Google.
This is the first book we are reading\blogging through in [...]



Cruisin’ Santa Monica with Brian McLaren & Spencer Burke

By Tripp Fuller • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: books, emergent, engaging, media

Brian McLaren and Spencer Burke have a great discussion about his upcoming book “A New Kind of Christianity.”  Enjoy!



Calling all Deacons!!! Come to the ‘Theology After Google’ event.

By Tripp Fuller • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: emergent, living, media

Deacons, Friends, Ministers, Church Leaders, Theologians, or Just cool people who like God and use the internet.  I am part of putting on this super sweet conference at Claremont March 10-12 and I would love for you to think about coming.  For three days you will think about theology, the church, technology, communication, and all [...]



Twitter-gestions for the Theology After Google

By Tripp Fuller • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: emergent, living, media, pomo

This is the first day of the ‘Theology After Google’ class and yesterday I asked on Twitter what video I should use to get the conversation moving.  I promised I would share them with the class and figured y’all might enjoy them. So without further ado, here’s the Twitter-gestions…..



The Dangerous Biz of Truth

By Tripp Fuller • Jan 17th, 2010 • Category: media, pomo, thinking

What is truth?  Good question.  I asked a bunch of theologians to answer it without crossing their fingers and here are their answers from Transforming Theology. Below I took a stab at the question in response.

Truth is dangerous business.  Truth is really dangerous when it comes to religion.  It is definitely not a fashionable topic [...]