‘Keep Theology Weird!’  In Jurgen Moltmann’s newest book, Sun of Righteousness, Arise!, he begins by setting a unique goal for himself…’to bring out what is specific, strange, and special about the Christian faith.‘  For Moltmann, ‘what is distinctively Christian is the confession of Christ and belief in his resurrection.’  Despite the tendencies since the Enlightenment [...]

Barry Taylor brought the theological heat in his presentation titled ‘Finding Sea Legs in a World of Pirates, Gods and Monsters.’  On top of his awesome presentation where he gives a post-structuralist anthropology about the ‘techno-self’ he managed to dominate the whole cornhole tournament with his partner Ryan Parker.   Barry sent me a picture [...]

Jeff Jarvis of ‘Buzz Machine‘ fame was gracious enough to join the ‘theology after google‘ event last week for a conversation about taking his book ‘What Would Google Do?’ into the church.  I have heard tons of positive responses and a couple asked for audio of the talk so they could put it on their [...]

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 myth of [...]

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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.

‘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 [...]

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 add. Answers [...]

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

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 [...]

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? [...]