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 [...]
‘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 [...]
I haven’t been blogging for a bit, now; I’ve been working on passing my Qualifying Exams. But I’m back for a while and will be presenting to you what are some hopefully thought-provoking posts! I won’t explain this post too much, now, (I’ll save that for a follow up post), but it’s connected to [...]
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 [...]
The Theology After Google Conference will be streamed for all those not enjoying the SoCal sun this week. We would love to get your feedback, some conversation, and questions for the presenters through our Twitter Twub (#tag10). Here’s the event bookstore if you are so inspired. Live streaming video by Ustream
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 [...]
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? [...]
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 the [...]
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…..
