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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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…..

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 [...]

I’d like to clue those of you who are interested in secularization into a website that’s extremely informative.  It’s a site recording a recent gathering of famous philosophers, including Juergan Habermas,  Charles Taylor, Judith Butler, and Cornel West.  I can’t remeber the occasion of this conference (all that information is on the first recording with [...]

We recently lost one of the most articulate progressive theological voices.  Del Brown, theologian and former Dean of the Pacific School of Religion, was a remarkable man.   I had the pleasure of meeting Del Brown at the first Transforming Theology event and since then exchanged some emails about the nature of progressive theology.  He [...]

John Cobb was the first to publish a book by a philosopher on environmental ethics.  Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology came out in 1972 and was revised in 1995, but remains today as pertinent as ever.  Dr. Cobb made a special guest appearance in my Eco-Philosophy class this past week on Earth [...]