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Christianity as the End of Religion
Extended Family & Joy! Enough to Go Around
Everything I Learned about Christmas I Learned from TV: Part 3, The True Meaning of Christmas
To Kill and Take Possession, Part 4: Bargaining with God and the Devil
Things I'm Interested In (Installment #4): Mustard & Ketchup
To Kill and Take Possession, Part 3: Absolute Responsibility and Mens rea
Everything I Learned about Christmas I Learned from TV: Part 2, Misfits
To Kill and Take Possession, Part 2: The (Im)morality of Guile
Things I'm Interested In (Installment #3): We Feel Fine
To Kill and Take Possession, Part 1: Divine Investigations and Divine Ordeals
Everything I Learned about Christmas I Learned From TV: Part 1, The Grinch
Things I'm Interested In (Installment #2): Death on Black Friday
Death, Art & Christian Aesthetics: Part 3, Death and Christian Aesthetics
Death, Art & Christian Aesthetics: Part 2, A Terror Management Perspective
Things I'm Interested In (Installment #1): Voting Intent
Death, Art & Christian Aesthetics: Interlude, What is "Christian" about Christian Art?
Death, Art & Christian Aesthetics: Part 1, Why is Christian Art So Bad?
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes: Table of Contents
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Epilogue: "Let's go exploring!"
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 5, Chapter 14: Hobbes
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 5, Chapter 13: "All shall be well."
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 5, Chapter 12: Calvinball
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 4, Chapter 11: "The world seems like a pretty mean place."
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 4, Chapter 10: Bully
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 3, Chapter 9: "I can't figure out this death stuff."
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 3, Chapter 8: Monsters Under the Bed
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 3, Chapter 7: Spaceman Spiff and Religious Experience
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 2, Chapter 6: Get Rid of Slimy Girls
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 2, Chapter 5: "Quit playing with your oatmeal and eat it."
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 2, Chapter 4: The Wagon Ride
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 1, Chapter 3: "A Vindictive, Twisted Elf"
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 1, Chapter 2: The Democracy of Sinners
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Part 1, Chapter 1: "Virtue needs some cheaper thrills"
The Theology of Calvin and Hobbes, Prelude: Incurvatus in se
Evil and Theodicy, Part 3: Kant, Authenticity, and Lament
Evil and Theodicy, Part 2: Can Happinees and Virtue Be Linked?
Evil and Theodicy, Part 1: Are Happiness and Virtue Linked?
A Psychological Analysis of Strangers and Hospitality, Part 3: Hospitality and Our Moral Bandwidth
A Psychological Analysis of Strangers and Hospitality, Part 2: The Root of All Our Problems
A Psychological Analysis of Strangers and Hospitality, Part 1: Why No One Recognized Jesus
The Therapeutic Culture of American Christianity
Meditations on Christian Pop Culture: A Review of Rapture Ready!
The Moral Minefield of Everyday Chit Chat: Gossip
"To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world": Remembering Bobby
Notes on the Theology of Icons, Part 4: Reverse Perspective
Introducing All That to Say...
Notes on the Theology of Icons, Part 3: Time and Space
Notes on the Theology of Icons, Part 2: Light
Notes on the Theology of Icons, Part 1: Stylization
Morality, Hermeneutics, Community and Group Error
In Defense of Individualism (or Why Community is Bad)
Carlin on Profanity and the Body
Into the World--Chapter Thirteen: Kierkegaard's Challenge to Intelligibility--Second Part
On Violence and Traffic Lights
Free Digital Copy of Into the World
Into the World--Chapter Thirteen: Kierkegaard's Challenge to Intelligibility--First Part
Into the World--Chapter Twelve: The View from Sartre's Bad Faith
Culminating "Into the World" Posts Ahead
Into the World--Chapter Eleven: The View from James' Radical Question
Into the World--Chapter Ten: The Challenge from Kantian Autonomy
Into the World--Chapter Nine: The View from Enlightened Self-Interest
Notes on Teilhard's Omega Point: Part 4, The Omega Point
Into the World--Chapter Eight: The Message of the Cross as Supreme Answer
Notes on Teilhard's Omega Point: Part 3, On Complexity, Consciousness, Thermostats and Panpsychism
Notes on Teilhard's Omega Point: Part 2, Inside the Universe
Into the World--Chapter Seven: The Voice of God
Notes on Teilhard's Omega Point: Part 1, Evolution and Faith
Is God a Black Swan?: Part 2, Disruption, the Narrative Fallacy, and Antitheology
Into the World--Chapter Six: The Voice of Conscience
Welcoming the Stranger and Entertaining Angels
Is God a Black Swan?: Part 1, Black Swans and the Triplet of Opacity
Into the World--Chapter Five: A Primer--The Bible's Broadest Theme
PostSecret: Part 5, The PostSecret Experience
PostSecret: Part 4, PostSecret, Experimental Disclosure, and Virtual Confession Boxes
PostSecret: Part 3, Is PostSecret Sensationalized?
Into the World--Chapter Four: A Perpetual Warring Intellectual Context
PostSecret: Part 2, The Three Biggest Secrets
Into the World--Chapter Three: Today's Warring Intellectual Context
PostSecret: Part 1, PostSecret and Church
Ugly: Part 7, Christina's World
Into the World--Chapter Two: The Layered Gospel Context
The Varieties of Love and Hate
God is always happy...even if a hammer falls on his head.
Into the World--Chapter One: Introduction
Into the World--Prologue and Abstract
Into the World--Guest Author Introduction
Ugly: Part 5, The Isenheim Altarpiece
Cracks in Heaven and Earth: Orthodox Iconography of the Nativity, Baptism, and Transfiguration
Ugly: Part 2, Spirituality as aesthetics
Ugly: Part 1, Ugly as a theological category
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
Putting in a Good Word for Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Changing the World in Three Easy Steps
The J-Curve and the Missional Church Redux
The Iconography of Christ Pantokrator
The Iconography of the Crucifixion
The Iconography of John the Baptist
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 9: Resurrection
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 8: Depth
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 7: Lamb
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 6: Sections viii-x "...a warm puppy."
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 6: Sections i-vii "A Fearful Gift."
Fleeing the Body of Jesus: Death and the Incarnation
Valentine's Day is Over-Genitalized
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 5: "Five cents please."
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 4: The Great Pumpkin
Three Thoughts on the Kenostic Singularity
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 3: Section xvi "Security Blankets."
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 3: Sections xi-xv "Small."
A Random Quote and an Internet Meme
The Making of The Theology of Peanuts
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 3: Sections vi-x "Thorns."
Musings on The Secular Age: And the Christian and the Atheist Shall Lie Down Together
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 3: Sections i-v "Snowmen."
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 2: Sections xi-xx "It's him or me."
The Emotional Burden of Monotheism: Does Satan help us feel better about God?
Amos 9.7: "Exodus" in the Plural
The Theology of Peanuts, Chapter 1. Self: "My soul is full of weeds." (sections v-ix "Goat")