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Jesus, The Sex Pistols & Deconstruction

Jesus, The Sex Pistols & Deconstruction
It’s been almost 20 years since my BIG deconstruction, and since then, it has been a journey focused on reconstruction.  Let me be a little more precise; it is more of a rhythm of gaining new insights, trying them out, and deciding whether I keep them or keep looking. Whether I keep them or jettison…
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Easter: Good News for Zombies!

Easter: Good News for Zombies!
Wow! More than a few years ago, we were visiting a Church in Arizona on Easter Sunday. The Pastor, an acquaintance, was tremendously creative with sharing the Gospel through pop culture and his Easter Sunday message was no exception. He was presenting the Easter story using various media and was at the part in Matthew…
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Faith of the Everyday

Faith of the Everyday
Once upon a time, there were two carpenters; framers to be precise. Each day they would arrive at the building site to pound nails, erect walls. The first, a glum man, was asked what he was doing. “I hammer nails,” he replied, looking sour. “Every day, hammer nails and more nails. Day in, day out,…
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God Must Love

God Must Love
Today’s post explores the Big Idea of Essential Kenosis and what it tells us about the nature/character of God.
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Still Becoming: Renovation

Still Becoming: Renovation
Open and Relational Theology has been a life saver for me, To be able to engage God and the world in ways that are consistent with my experience and intuitive sense of the God-who-is-love via the new eyes of good history, scripture, anthropology, philosophy, science and cosmology. It is affording me a way towards a more whole, very human life in the ongoing journey of becoming love.
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The Dark Night

The Dark Night
We are raised to work harder, strive, stretch, brutalize the flesh and get what we want. Activity, or more accurately, productivity has become a sacred virtue in our culture.
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The Slap

The Slap
Rock’s ‘joke’ at Pinket Smith expense prompted her husband (and that nights Best Actor winner) Will Smith to leave his seat, walk onto the stage, and slap Chris Rock. Returning to his seat, Will Smith told Rock in no uncertain terms that he was to stop the cruel jokes at his Jada Pinket-Smith’s expense.
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Why Hate the Sin and Love the Sinner Doesn’t Work

Why Hate the Sin and Love the Sinner Doesn’t Work
It surprises many to learn that the phrase hate the sin and love the sinner is not in the Bible. This idea seems to have originated with St. Augustine (c.424) in one of his letters when he used the phrase "Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum" which translates as "with love for mankind and hatred…
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Pluriform Love – A Review

Pluriform Love – A Review
I enjoyed an advanced copy of Thomas Jay Oord’s latest book, Pluriform Love—a more academic read than Oord’s recent works, but that shouldn’t scare you off. Oord writes in such a way as to be accessible to a wide swath of interested readers.    In Pluriform Love, Oord pushes back on some well-entrenched theological sacred…
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Seed to the Wind

Seed to the Wind
Conversion Therapy is the discredited practice that attempts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity by various modalities, including different kinds of prayer. The harm of such practices is well-documented, and the stories of those who have endured such are dreadfully painful.   Conversion Therapy Flagship ministries who had claimed to successfully "pray…
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