Sitemap - 2011 - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck
Repent, the Kingdom of Heaven Has Come Near
A Christmas Carol as Resistance Literature: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
The King Jesus Gospel: No More Epicycles
Professor in Prison: Why Five Stones?
Hating Pixels: A Modern Day Reflection on the Sermon on the Mount
Display It Through Your Actions
Are Christians Hate-Filled Hypocrites?
On Prophecy and Policy: To Not Refuse the Gift of Speech
A Christmas Carol as Resistance Literature
Cheap Praise and Costly Praise
Cookie Cutting the Bible: A Case Study of the Word "Righteous"
"Love is the Expansion of the Self"
We Weren't as Good as the Muppets...
Streaming 2012: "I Desire Mercy, Not Sacrifice."
Love Wins: Part 8, The Good News Is Better Than That
Love and Ever More Love: The Life and Times of Dorothy Day
The Fuzzy Correlation: A Ramble about Capitalism, Socialism and Politics
The Empathy of God: The Incarnation and Process Theology
Speaking / Guest Lecturing Schedule
The Unforgivable Sin: A Universalist Midrash
Love Wins, Part 8: There are Rocks Everywhere
On Blogging: A Conversation with Rachel Held Evans
"Biblical" as a Sociological Stress Test
On Walden Pond: Spend Yourself
"All That Are Here Are Humans.": The Soul of the Principalities and Powers
Universalism, Grace and the Bondage of the Will
Churches of Christ versus Evangelicalism: Five Contrasts
Four Reasons Why I'm Church of Christ
Love Wins: Part 7, Your Gospel Is Too Small
John 13: A Story from the Prison Study
On Walden Pond: "For My Greatest Skill Has Been to Want But Little."
The Gospel According to Lady Gaga
Loving Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself: A Comment on Love and Self-esteem
Raising Stones: Worship for the Missional Church
Love Wins: Part 6, Winning, But Not Like Charlie Sheen
Love Wins: Part 5, Who Would Doubt God's Ability to Do That?
On the Moral Example of Captain Jack Sparrow
The Exclusion and Inclusion of Eunuchs
An Old Old Story: Ground Zero Sum
Love Wins: Part 4, "We need a loaded, volatile, adequately violent, dramatic, serious word."
On Walden Pond: "No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes."
The Profound Tension Between Mercy and Sacrifice
Annihilationism versus Mortalism
On the Varieties of Wonder, Awe, and Radical Amazement
Love Wins: Part 3, "Our eschatology shapes our ethics."
On Walden Pond: "To solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically."
Will the Internet Kill Christianity?
For the College Students: A Prayer for the Moonstruck
Love Wins: Part 2, What about the Flat Tire?
On Walden Pond: "What Demon Possessed Me That I Behaved So Well?"
Love Wins: Part 1, Millions of Us
On Walden Pond: Lives of Quiet Desperation
From The Onion: Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla it Will Die Someday
"My Heart is Overwhelmed": Universalism and the Prophetic Imagination
On Walden Pond: "The Narrowness of My Experience"
He Has Gone to Search for Our First Parent, As for a Lost Sheep
It was like the secret love-child of Oliver Sacks and William Stringfellow
The Slavery of Death: Part 1, "He who does not fear death is outside the tyranny of the devil."
On Walden Pond: "To Live Deliberately"
So I Be Written in the Book of Love
The Best Ending to the Christian Story: Series Wrap
The Best Ending to the Christian Story: Radical Continuity
The Fourfold Franciscan Blessing
The Best Ending of the Christian Story?
Finding Joy: On Golf and the Sermon on the Mount
The Christian versus Atheist Turing Test
The Hot Summer Fashion Statement
On Maps and Marital Spats: A Kantian Reflection
The Ethic of Death: Reflections on the Policies and Procedures Manual
From Jerusalem to Jericho: On Hurry, Helping and Hobbies
"Jesus Stopped": On Interruptibility
"A Home for Demons...and the Merchants Weep"
On Fear and Following: Reading the Beatitudes in Prision
On Lily Pads and Rivers: The Theology of Data Types
From Homo Singularis to Homo Sanctus
"These Strange Minds": Quotes from Emily Dickinson
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: On Disenchantment and the Demonic
Pentecost, Othering, and the Kingdom of God
Can a Christian Be a Follower of Ayn Rand?
The Front Page of the Abilene Reporter News
Helping Out MacFarland Middle School
The Angel of the iPhone: Part 7, Connection, Disconnection and Facebook Addiction
Pseudepigrapha and the Christian Witness
The Angel of the iPhone: Part 6, Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
The Angel of the iPhone: Part 5, Anonymity
Making Room for the Wrath of God: Romans 12:19 and Osama Bin Laden
"She was poor, but she was honest."
Love, Resistance, and Bob Marley
The Angel of the iPhone: Part 4, A Web of One
"A Bloody Husband Art Thou to Me"
The Angel of the iPhone: Part 3, It's a Small World
"The Fullness of Christ's Mercy"
Can You Hate the Heresy but Love the Heretic?
1611 to 2011: Happy 400th Birthday KJV
The Angel of the iPhone: Part 2, Discerning the Spirits
Adventures in Looking Like Jesus (or a Crazy Person)
The Angel of the iPhone: Part 1, William Stringfellow on the iPhone
The Deeper Magic: A Good Friday Meditation
The Most Subversive Idea in the Bible?
Reading the Bible with the Damned
What I Learned on Palm Sunday with the Greek Orthodox
Universal Reconciliation: Some Questions and Answers
Love and Freedom: A Mother's Story
iPhones and Asceticism: Why Did You Give Up Facebook for Lent?
Comfort My People...She Has Received from the Lord’s Hand Double for all Her Sins
Musings about Universalism, Part 10: A Christ-Centered Theology
The Joys of Teaching & Research
Christians Celebrating Passover
Musings about Universalism, Part 9: The Urgency of Joy: On Evangelism and Mission
The Best Book this Lenten Season Isn't Love Wins...
Musings about Universalism, Part 8: My Life, in Three Acts, with Talbott's Propositions
Thank God I'm Not an Evangelical
Musings about Universalism, Part 7: Why Only Universalists Believe in God's Justice
Facebook Doesn't Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches
Help Wanted: The Theology of Sin and Death
Growing up Catholic: A Lenten Meditation
Musings about Universalism, Part 6: Why Universalism is More Biblical
Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality and Mortality
Musings about Universalism, Part 5: Rejecting Death-Centered Christianity
Matthew 3.13 - An Ash Wednesday Lament
Musings about Universalism, Part 4: Why I Rejected Annihilationism
Musings about Universalism, Part 3: God Damn It
Musings about Universalism, Part 2: Volitional Integrity and Hell as Groundhog Day
Musings about Universalism, Part 1: What C.S. Lewis, N.T. Wright and (Maybe) Rob Bell Get Wrong
Church as Mesh: A Thought on Stewardship
On the Possibility of Happiness: Part 5, The Consolations of Philosophy
Universalism and the Open Wound of Life
Thoughts On Church Giving: Part 4, Hiring the Minister of Sharing
Lead Us Not Into Temptation...?
How Freud Ruined Valentine's Day
Thoughts On Church Giving: Part 3, Buying the Glitter and Paying the Bills
A Language to Bring People Back Home
Thoughts On Church Giving: Part 2, The Offering Receipt
The Predicaments of Praying from Privilege
Thoughts On Church Giving: Part 1, The Problem
On the Possibility of Happiness: Part 4, When Relationships are Hard to Come By
How to Read Theology Books if You Are Not a Theologian
On the Possibility of Happiness: Part 2, What is Joy?
On the Possibility of Happiness: Part 1, A Hero's Journey
On the Impossibility of Happiness: Part 5, The Hedonic Treadmill
On the Impossibility of Happiness: Part 4, The Grass on the Other Side of the Fence
Driving to Pizza House: A Mathematical Tale
Can you be patriotic and a Christian?
"Except as we have loved all news arrives as from a distant land."
On the Impossibility of Happiness: Part 3, Akrasia
A Year with the Sermon on the Mount
On the Impossibility of Happiness: Part 2, Affective Forecasting Errors