Tripp had a sweet idea to let you listen to two brief soundbites from our recent interviews with Tom Wright and Marcus Borg back to back, so you can let us know with whom you agree more on the resurrection. You don’t have to fall in line completely with either to vote, but vote and [...]
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 [...]
I wrote a blog a while back called “Is Mainline Leadership Killing the Church?’ In it, I recommended that it be made canon law that all Episcopal Bishops take communion from a child once a year, that this act may bring some humility to at least Episcopal leadership and remind them whom they serve. (To [...]
I just read an interesting post by Philip Clayton talking about ‘Big Tent’ Christianity. His question is whether there’s still room enough in the American tent for the two sides of Christian faith we find in the States…the liberal and the conservative…to sit with one another. I must admit, I am not personally as concerned [...]
So, here’s the thing. I’m kinda new to this stuff on the ‘Internet.’ I’m actually kinda like the new kid in school. Nobody really knows anything about me, so I don’t really get picked for many teams; and I don’t know anyone else, so I can’t really ask anyone to hang out. Well, consider this [...]
Who doesn’t love a good meme? My friend Tripp tagged me here at your Homebrewed Christianity, and I’m excited to participate. I may or may not have asked him to tag me. No shame in this game. I offer my humble response below. But first, the rules. Summarise the Bible in five statements, the first [...]
Mike Morrell tagged me in this meme in which the ‘tagged’ attempt to… Summarise the Bible in five statements, the first one word long, the second two, the third three, the fourth four and the last five words long. Or possibly you could do this in descending order. Tag five people. So here’s my attempt [...]
The words of Jesus to Mary Magdalene when he appeared to her always sound a little harsh to me. I try to read them in that gentle Jesus voice you always hear in the passion plays. I expect Jesus’ words to his disciples in his post-resurrection appearances to be extremely loving, calming, happy words of [...]
This past Sunday I preached on the last words of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.’ If you are interested you can listen to it here.
The Church is always facing new challenges, always drawing from new sources, always trying to be Christian in a new way, in a new place. Important to me is what is meant by new or better yet where God is in the new. As Clayton points out Church history is full of new thoughts emerging [...]
