Sitemap - 2007 - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck
Musings on the Scandal of the Body, Part 2: Looking for the Caganer in the Scene
Ten Random Thoughts about The Golden Compass
Musings on the Scandal of the Body, Part 1: Why We Curse
Musings on Openness Theology, Part 6: S-Fact Blindness and the Incarnation
Musings on Openness Theology, Part 5: The Quantum and Algorithmic Compression
Musings on Openness Theology, Part 4: Forecasting, Laplace's Demon, and Omniscience
Musings on Openness Theology, Part 3: Models of Sovereignty at Church
Musings on Openness Theology, Part 2: The Odd Case of King Saul
Musings on Openness Theology, Part 1: Is God Impassive?
Everything I Learned about Christmas I Learned from Watching TV, Part 2: A Place for Misfits
More Christmas Spirit: Do you want to know what I look like?
Death and Doctrine, Part 7: Choice and Fleeces
Why the Anti-Christ is an Idiot
Death and Doctrine, Part 6: The Allures of the Anti-Christ
Death and Doctrine, Part 5: The Comforts of Biblical Literalism
Death and Doctrine, Part 4: Legitimate and Illegitimate Suffering
Death and Doctrine, Part 3: Scared Christians
On Reading the Bible: Dispatches from the Carmichael-Walling Lectures
Death and Doctrine, Part 2: On Why Hell Makes So Many Christians Happy
Death and Doctrine, Part 1: The Need for Ante-Mortum Salvific Self-Verification
Curing the Religious Disease, Part 4: A/theism
Me, Stanley Hauerwas, and the Puzzlement of the Trinity
Curing the Religious Disease, Part 3: God is found "In Between"
Curing the Religious Disease, Part 2: The Protestant Principle
Curing the Religious Disease, Part 1: Diagnosis
On Why We Need God, Part 2: A Place for Prophets to Stand
On Why We Need God, Part 1: The Moral Core of My Faith
Musings on Religionless Christianity
Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity
“God is always in your future”: A Universalist Reading of Hosea
The Greatest Virtue, Part 4: Altruism Exists
The Greatest Virtue, Part 3: Empathy, the Veil of Ignorance, and Justice
Friday Fun: Can you sin on a deserted island?
The Greatest Virtue, Part 2: Empathy Broken
The Greatest Virtue, Part 1: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Everyday Evil, Part 7: Beyond Catechesis: Habit and Improv
Everyday Evil, Part 5: The Bystander Effect
The Geography of Religious Experience
Everyday Evil, Part 4: Conformity
Everyday Evil, Part 3: Obedience
The Jack-in-the-Box Theory: A Musing on Throwing Stones, Hierarchies, and the Stanford Prison Study
Everyday Evil, Part 2: The Stanford Prison Study
Everyday Evil, Part 1: The Fundamental Attribution Error
Strange Loops and Theology, Part 5: "Do this in remembrance of me."
Strange Loops and Theology, Part 4: Soul Shards and the Imago Christi
The Problem of Evil and Two Polls
Mother Teresa: Winter Christian
Strange Loops and Theology, Part 3: The Curious Collage of the Human Soul
From the APA Convention, Post 3: Death and Art
From the APA Convention, Post 2: The Social Lives of Men and Women
From the APA Convention, Post 1: Media and Sexuality
Strange Loops and Theology, Part 2: Symbols, Self, Patterns, and Causal Potency
Strange Loops and Theology, Part 1: The Gödelian Swirl of Self
Stoicism and Christianity, Part 3: An Experimental Reading of the Book of Job
Stoicism and Christianity, Part 2: The Taoist Farmer
Stoicism and Christianity, Part 1: Apatheia and a Personal God?
On Harry Potter and Vampire Movies: Sin and Biology
Sticky Theology, Part 4: Persuasion and Bivalent Theology
Sticky Theology, Part 3: Metaphors, Emotional Selection, and Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Sticky Theology, Part 2: Sound-bite Theology
Sticky Theology, Part 1: Emotional Selection
The Experimental Theology Salon: Theology on the Subtle Edge
A Walk with William James, Part 11: A Critique of Pure Saintliness
A Walk with William James, Part 10: White Crows and The Empirical Trace (Part 2 of 2)
A Walk with William James, Part 10: Ghostbusting with William James (Part 1 of 2)
A Walk with William James, Part 9: Broken Like Bubbles in the Sun
A Walk with William James, Part 8: Introverts in the Imago Dei?
In the Theatre of Existentialism and Body Ambivalence: To blow or not to blow?
A Walk with William James, Part 7: The Healthy-Minded and the Salvation through Self-Despair
A Walk with William James, Part 5: A Random Musing on Serpents, Forks, and Theology
A Walk with William James, Part 4: The Emerging Church is Ripping Off William James
A Walk with William James, Part 3: Vote
A Walk with William James, Part 2: Habit
A Walk with William James, Part 1: Preamble and the Jamesian Situation
The End of Scapegoating (Some Handouts)
A Charge to the Class of 2007: "Everything I Learned about Life I Learned Coaching Tee-Ball"
Theology and Evolutionary Psychology, A Final Thought: "If it sucks. It's Christian."
The Golden Rule, Part 2: The Glitch
The Golden Rule, Part 1: Primum non nocere
Theology and Evolutionary Psychology, Chapter 8: Vengeance Psalms and the Dark Side of Reciprocity
On Casting Lots, Amor Fati, Prayer, and Magic
Theology and Evolutionary Psychology, Chapter 7: Reciprocity and the Widow's Mites
Theology and Evolutionary Psychology, Chapter 6: Kin Selection, the Moral Circle, and the SXS
Theology and Evolutionary Psychology, Chapter 5: Family Values?
Theology and Evolutionary Psychology, Interlude: On the Sweet Tooth, Identity, and Justice
Theology and Evolutionary Psychology, A Weekend Musing: Technology, the Human Brain, and Emoticons
Theology and Evolutionary Psychology, Prelude: Galileo’s Dilemma
Pay It Forward and Generalized Reciprocity
Ironic Christians and Wry Prophets
Musings on Spinoza and God, Part 2: Spinoza's God, Anthropomorphism, and Process Theology
Musings on Spinoza and God, Part 1: Spinoza's God and Theocracy
Ecclesial Discernment and Fitness Landscapes
Fitness Landscapes and Ecclesial Discernment, Part 1: Is the Ecclesial Landscape Simple or Rugged?
1 Corinthians and the No Asshole Rule
Christ and Horrors, Part 4: Why?
More Dispatches from the Post-Cartesian World: The Brain on the Stand
Christ and Horrors, Part 3: Horror Defeat, Universalism, and God's Reputation
Christ and Horrors, Part 2: Horror Defeat, God's Burden, and Weak Volitionalism
Christ and Horrors, Part 1: Horrors and the Work of Christ
Christ and Horrors: God's advocatus diaboli
Network Theory with a Religious Twist
Preparing for the Cartesian Storm: Guide to Posts
Toward a Post-Cartesian Theology, Part 7: The Light Touch
Toward a Post-Cartesian Theology, Part 6: Salvation as Divine Volitional Unanimity
Toward a Post-Cartesian Theology, Part 5: A Political Warmup
Toward a Post-Cartesian Theology, Part 4: Moral Responsibility
Toward a Post-Cartesian Theology, Interlude: Want to be more like Jesus? Drink a Coke.
Toward a Post-Cartesian Theology, Part 3: Love and Normativity
Toward a Post-Cartesian Theology, Interlude: Is Frankfurtian Freedom a Dodge?
An Argument for the Existence of God (P.S. Happy Valentine's Day!)
Toward a Post-Cartesian Theology, Part 1: Frankfurt on love, will, and normativity
The J-Curve and the Missional Church
Little Mathematica Help for the EcQ?
The Ecclesial Quotient (EcQ): Mavens and Salesmen
The Ecclesial Quotient (EcQ): Connectors, Weak Ties, and the Small World
Valentine’s Day is Over-Genitalized
Free Will, Causality, Character, and Moral Accountability: Part 2
Free Will, Causality, Character, and Moral Accountability: Part 1
The Narcotic Functions of Faith: Inside the Defensive Theology Scale
On Bullshit, Psychology, and Theology, Part 5: Meta-lies and Church as a Bullshit-Free Zone
On Bullshit, Psychology, and Theology, Part 4: Nagel's Concealment and Exposure
On Bullshit, Psychology, and Theology, Part 2: Deeper Into Bullshit
On Bullshit, Psychology, and Theology, Part 1: Frankfurt's Analysis
The Voice of the Scapegoat, Part 7: "I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting."
The Voice of the Scapegoat, Part 6: "Surely this man was innocent."
The Voice of the Scapegoat Series
The Illusion of Conscious Will?
The Voice of the Scapegoat, Part 5: Things Hidden from the Foundation of the World