Sitemap - 2006 - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck
The Voice of the Scapegoat, Part 4: Whispers of Victims
The Voice of the Scapegoat, Part 3: The Bloody Antimyth
The Voice of The Scapegoat, Part 2: Sacred Violence, Scapegoats, and Myth
The Voice of The Scapegoat, Part 1: The Crisis of Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Attachment to God, Part 6: Reappraisals and The Road Ahead
Attachment to God, Part 5: Correspondence or Compensation?
Attachment to God, Interlude: Why are the Churches of Christ so Fearful? Updated!
Attachment to God, Part 4: The Attachment to God Inventory
Attachment to God, Part 3: Attachment Styles and God
Attachment to God, Part 2: God and the Attachment Bond
Attachment to God, Part 1: God as Parent and Lover
Summing Up: Satan as a Functional Theodicy?
The Probability of Encountering Satan Today is .0000000036
Satan as a Functional Theodicy, Part 4: Crypto-Jewish and Crypto-Zoroastrian Christians
Satan as a Functional Theodicy, Interlude: Satan and Drive-Through Spiritual Formation
Satan as a Functional Theodicy, Part 3: The ACU Study
First-, Second-, and N-Order Complaint People
Satan as a Functional Theodicy, Part 2: The Emotional Burden of Monotheism
The Devil: Satan as a Functional Theodicy, Part 1
A "Proof" for the Existence of God, Part 6: The Moral Universe
A "Proof" for the Existence of God, Part 5: Consciousness and Interdependence
Ministering in a Post-Cartesian World
My Preacher and I: Strong vs. Weak Volitionists and Is Love a Choice? (With New Addendum!)
A "Proof" for the Existence of God, Interlude: Lazarus, Time, Entropy, and Hope
A "Proof" for the Existence of God, Part 4: Consciousness and Entropy
A "Proof" for the Existence of God, Part 3: Consciousness, Information, Complexity, and Morality
A "Proof" for the Existence of God, Part 2: Consciousness is Brute
A "Proof" for the Existence of God, Part 1: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
The Theology of the Workplace: Waiting on Each Other
Why I am a Universalist: Summing Up and Some Links
Why I am a Universalist, Comment: A Soteriology for All Possible Worlds
Why I am a Universalist, Part 6: Thanatocentrism and the Fetish of the Thin Red Line
Why I am a Universalist, Interlude: A Reading of I Corinthians 15
Why I am a Universalist, Part 5: Salvation in a Post-Cartesian World
Why I am a Universalist, Interlude: A Reading of Romans 9-11
Why I am a Universalist, Part 4: Moral Luck
Why I am a Universalist, Interlude: On Reading the Bible and Moral Coherence
Why I am a Universalist, Part 3: The Gift of Hell
Why I am a Universalist, Part 2: God is not worthy of worship just because He's God
Why I am a Universalist, Part 1: Talbott's Propositions
Feeling Queasy about the Incarnation
Toward a Theology of Profanity
In Defense of Halloween: Psychological and Theological Musings
The Theology of Everyday Life: Is Gossip a Sin?, Part 5, "Strategic Christians?"
The Theology of Everyday Life: Is Gossip a Sin?, Part 4, "Schadenfreude"
The Theology of Everyday Life: Is Gossip a Sin?, Part 2, "Interlude: Evolutionary Stable Strategies"
The Theology of Everyday Life: Is Gossip a Sin?, Part 1, "The Food of the Brain"
The Theology of Everyday Life: The Theology of Humor, Part 4, "Emotional Contagion"
The Theology of Everyday Life: The Theology of Humor, Part 3, "Friendship, Laughter, and Smiles"
The Theology of Everyday Life: The Theology of Humor, Part 1, "Humor as Power"
Christian Practice, A Potentially Controversial Epilogue: The Final Practice?
Christian Practice, The End: Story
Christian Practice, Part 6: Community
Christian Practice, Part 5: Reconciliation
Christian Practice, Part 4: Justice
Christian Practice, Part 3a: Gelassenheit Revisited
Christian Practice, Part 3: Kenosis and Gelassenheit
Christian Practice, Part 2: The Practices of Stuff
Christian Practice, Part 1: Ahimsa
To My Readers: Vacation Notice and an Invitation
A Communal Theological Project: Our "Rule" of Christian Practice
On Being a Practicing Christian: Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy
The Theology of Everyday Life: On Apology
Welcome and the Kingdom of God
Hobbes and Rousseau at the Movies: The Lord of the Rings and The Lord of the Flies
Are Humans Good or Bad?: Hobbes vs. Rousseau or Should You Breast-feed Your Baby?
Game Theory and the Kingdom of God (A Quirky Series Installment), Part 7: "Nonzero: Moral Progress?"
Game Theory and the Kingdom of God (A Quirky Series Installment), Part 6: "Nonzero"
Game Theory and the Kingdom of God (A Quirky Series Installment), Part 3: "The Prisoner’s Dilemma"
Game Theory and the Kingdom of God (A Quirky Series Installment), Part 2: "The Game of Life"
Game Theory and the Kingdom of God (A Quirky Series Installment), Part 1: "Utility"
The Psychology of Belief, The End: The Metaphysical Club
The Psychology of Belief, Part 9: In Praise of Doubt
The Psychology of Belief, Part 8: Quest
The Psychology of Belief, Part 7: Discernment Redux
The Psychology of Belief, Part 6: Discernment
The Psychology of Belief, Part 5: William James, T.S. Eliot, faith, mysticism, and pragmatic belief
The Psychology of Belief, Part 4: Infrahumanization
The Psychology of Belief, Part 3: Moral Conviction
The Psychology of Belief, Part 2: The Myth of Pure Evil
The Psychology of Belief, Part 1: Is religion too dangerous to be allowed to exist?
The Theology of Everyday Life: Sinning in Your Heart, Part 4, "The ACU Study"
The Theology of Everyday Life: Sinning in Your Heart, Part 3, "Temptation"
The Theology of Everyday Life: Sinning in Your Heart, Part 2, "Hedges"
The Theology of Everyday Life: Sinning in Your Heart, Part 1, "The Morality of Mentality"
Spiritual Pollution: Sociomoral Disgust and the Ethic of Love
Spiritual Pollution, Part 13: Jesus and the gospel of Mark
Spiritual Pollution, Part 12: Purity Logic Case #4, Doctrine
Spiritual Pollution, Part 11: Purity Logic Case #3, Worship
Spiritual Pollution, Part 9: Purity Logic Case #1, Sexual Sins
Spiritual Pollution, Part 8: The problematic logic of purity metaphors in the church
Spiritual Pollution, Part 7: A metaphorical interlude
Spiritual Pollution, Part 5: Love and disgust at the boundaries
Spiritual Pollution, Part 4: Sociomoral disgust and religion
Spiritual Pollution, Part 3: A drop of urine and the "logic" of contamination
Spiritual Pollution, Part 2: Brownie poop, cockroaches, and the irrationality of disgust
Apologies to theologians and some clarifications
Spiritual Pollution, Part 1: Is it possible to hate the sin but love the sinner? Maybe not.
The Psychology of the Unthinkable
The Big Family: The Expansion of the Moral Circle, Part 2
Insiders and Outsiders: The Expansion of the Moral Circle, Part 1
Being a Good Person: The Moral Emotions
Binding, Loosing, and the Human Experience
Eating your dog and having sex with chickens: The research of Moral Dumbfounding