Am I Not a Theologian, Too?
Theologians are important in all our lives. They are the researchers and scholars who write and lecture about the weighty questions we all — people of faith and no faith — contemplate and wrestle with.
How to Change Hearts on Race
Love without laws is not enough, but for the benefits of our laws to be sustained, loving hearts are a necessity.
Consider the Ram: A Letter on Not Sacrificing One Another on the Altar of Self-Righteousness
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What if our acts of fidelity to the tribe our back bumper testifies to have actually been the thing God was satirically calling into question from the beginning?
Why I Bother Being Lutheran: Theology of the Cross
If God was there at the cross, and Jesus rose again, then God could still be here —even after death, even after suffering, after divorce and betrayal. And the theology of the cross that is Lutheran not only heals, but it indicts.
Singing Praise to God, Not America
JUNE 30, 2014 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- There is an often told apocryphal story of the little boy in a worship service who was seated beside...
A Better World is Possible: Reflections on the FTE Christian Leadership Forum
JUNE 25, 2014 | BY: MELVIN BRAY -- Abiding justice requires better theology. Our sense of justice must be informed by something. Ideologies and...
A Theology of Farts and Orgasms
JUNE 11, 2014 | BY: MICK POPE -- A theology of farts and orgasms reminds us we are spiritual animals, not bound for heaven but a renewed heavens...
Overcoming a Theology of Oppression
MAY 16, 2014 | BY: TONY CAMPOLO -- For many Christians, the faith struggles of W. J. de Kock will prove to be reflections of their...
We Need New Wineskins (Or Why Evangelicalism Needs To Be Abandoned)
APRIL 1, 2014 | BY: ZACK HUNT -- Two years ago I wrote a series of posts entitled Abandoning Evangelicalism. Today, I’m convinced...
Honest to God, ourselves and others – A journey of dishonest theology (Part 1)
MAR 4, 2014 | BY: MAL GREEN -- I had to prepare an introduction for a session on “Sexual/Gender identity and theology” as part of...