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Experimental Theology 2007 to 2011: Years in Review

Fridays with Benedict: Prologue, A School for the Lord's Service

Romans 12.9-17a: King James Version

Being Alone, Being Together

Incarnation

Luke 2.8-14

Strangers in a Strange Land

What's a Ghost with a Santa Hat?

The William Stringfellow Project: Dissenter in a Great Society

Christmas Carols as Resistance Literature

The First Nativity Scene

The Slaughter of the Innocents

The Sermon of St. Francis

A Profound Sense of Belonging, of Counting

Doing Beautiful Things

The Secular Call of Jesus

Shepherds and Cultures of Violence: An Advent Meditation

PhDs by Academic Discipline

Jesus: In Microcosm

"Forgive Us Our Trespasses." Where'd That Come From?

Sunshine and Rain

Circumcised Ears

Living in a World Without Strangers: EMU Chapel Talk

Learning to Wait: An Advent Meditation

5:00 Mass

The Holiness of Pain

Christian Seasons Calendar

Attention, Care and the Greatest Sermon Illustration of All Time

The View from Below

Anxiety vs. Mimesis

Control Your Vessel: Euphemism in 1 Thessalonians 4.4

An Economy of Submission

The Preferential Option for the Poor

One Heart

The Gifts and Benefits of Doubt

Not Learning to Lament: Comparing the Psalms to Songbooks

Debt and Income Inequality

The Rolling Jubilee

Epistemic Closure

Finding the Virtuous Among Us

The Reason Obama Won...

Religion Doomed: Was Freud Right?

I Voted

Anne Lamott On Going to Church

David Lipscomb on Voting

A Prayer for Visiting a Cemetery

From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart

A Year of Biblical Womanhood

The William Stringfellow Project: Free in Obedience, Part 2

The William Stringfellow Project: Free in Obedience, Part 1

Theodicy

Open Communion: WARNING!

Jesus as Oprah

A Sign of Them That Believe

Covenantal Substitutionary Atonement

Messenger

The New Jim Crow

On Money and Misers: How Much is Enough?

Can Patriarchalists Pray the Lord's Prayer?

Enneawhat? (Updated)

Take This Bread

The Hormonal God

Haunted

The Conflicts of Love

Merit

Help

Jam a Spoke in the Wheel

Joking Matters

Prayer Beads

An Invitation To Be An Interruption

Shopping in the Walmart of Belief

Life and Sex

Head Coverings in Worship: Why Female Hair Is a Testicle

The Banality of Goodness

Hunger Games and Harry Potter

Old Scratch

First Sermon

The William Stringfellow Project: My People is the Enemy

Uncle Richard, Vampire Hunter

A Prayer

The Nephilim

Singing and Resistence

Happiness: The Secret

At Folsom Prison

Thanks

Does God Play Duck-Duck-Goose?

Where I Am, You May Not Harm

Weep

Gift

A Community Called Forgiveness

The Confession of Sins

Angelic Troublemakers

Why It Is Good To Have a Rule of Life

A Letter for Highland on Women's Roles

And the Criminals With Him

"History Never Sits Still. Thus Neither Can Our Politics.": Lee Camp on the Powers and Politics

Accompaniment and the Sacrament of Mere Presence

A Restless Patriotism

Community Is the Place Where Our Limitations Are Revealed To Us

A Googolplexian Hell

The Hole Rule

My Rublev Icon Tattoo

Bubbles

Why We Need the Language of Hell

The Catholic Worker

Sanctificetur

Your God Is Too Big

In Search of an Authentic Faith

The Theology of The Dark Knight Rises

The William Stringfellow Project: Instead of Death

A Boredom Revolution

Are Christians Hate-Filled Hypocrites?

Anne Lamott

Torture and Eucharist: Part 4, What Sin Deserves Excommunication?

Torture and Eucharist: Part 3, Eucharistic Discipline

Torture and Eucharist: Part 2, Making the Body Visible

Torture and Eucharist: Part 1, Claiming the Bodies

Skilled Christianity

The Song of Lamech is Not the Song of the Lamb

Overalls

O Death, Death

Images of God Against the Empire

The Buddhist Phase

Monday Night Bible Study

Welcoming Children: How Jesus Plans to Stop Violence in the World

A Bible Verse for the 1%

Little Pacifism

God's Mercy Was Washing Over the World

The William Stringfellow Project: A Private and Public Faith, Part 4

The William Stringfellow Project: A Private and Public Faith, Part 3

The William Stringfellow Project: A Private and Public Faith, Part 2

The William Stringfellow Project: A Private and Public Faith, Part 1

Streaming: Part 5, Welcoming Bianca

Streaming: Part 4, A Beautiful Life

Streaming: Part 3, Sacrifice as Economy

Streaming: Part 2, Hospitality, Holiness and Mission

Streaming: Part 1, Little Hospitality

Where the Gospel Matters

The Christian Century Review of Unclean

Shaming Jesus

Justification and Works Based Righteousness

Do You Want To Be a Saint?

Theology and Peace: Part 5, Wasting the Body and Blood of Jesus

Theology and Peace: Part 4, The Lord's Prayer and Cycles of Violence

Theology and Peace: Part 3, The Voices of Victims

Theology and Peace: Part 2, Satan Versus the Holy Spirit

Theology and Peace: Part 1, Why Scapegoating is Like Axe Body Spray

High and Low: The Psalms and Suffering

Beyond the Box Podcast: Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

The Social Scientist Comes to the Conference

The William Stringfellow Project: A Summary of Stringfellow's Theology

Marriage Among the Homeless

Experimental Theology

Going Outside the Camp: The Holiness of Standing With the Losers

Is it Pragmatics or Power in Patriarchy?

Beyond the Box: The Denial of Death

The William Stringfellow Project

Treat Them as a Pagan or a Tax Collector

Wink on Exorcism

Beyond the Box: The Slavery of Death

The Sermon on the Mount: Study Guide

Pentecost

"Sin No More."

"Go And Sin No More."

On Seeing and Not Seeing Scapegoats

"All Right, Then, I'll Go To Hell."

Universal Reconciliation and the New Perspective on Paul

Holiness in Heaven: The Need for Purgation

Talking Like the Rain

Death Will Have No Dominion: The Passing of Walter Wink

The Authenticity of Faith Now on the Kindle

Becoming the Jubilee

Orthodox Alexithymia

"Here Am I"

Mousetrap

Answering Fools and Folly: A Theology of Blog Commenting

The Two Families of God

The Canticle of Brother Sun

Let Them Both Grow Together

Church as Self-mortification?

A Parable

As Open as the Outstretched Arms of Christ on the Cross: Moltmann on Open Communion

Evil and Evolution: Thoughts on Enns and Smith

Genesis and Evolution: Dealing With It

The Real Issues of Faith

Open Communion as Peace Making

Freedom

Whores: A Meditation on Gender and the Bible

The Sane Ones

There is a Time for Everything

Connection is a Symptom Not a Cure

Algorithms of Salvation

Violence and Holy Ground

Unclean Theology

Living in Babylon: Reading Revelation in Prison

Pregnant on a Christian Campus

Wisdom and Sin

Hellbound?

The Harrowing of Hell: A Holy Saturday Meditation

The Isenheim Altarpiece: A Good Friday Meditation

Gaga and the Church

The Holiness of the F-word

A New Apologetics

Ethnocentrism and Politics

On Masculine Christianity and Powerplays

The Parable of the Lost Sheep: Calvinist Version

Streaming

Calvinism is Jank

Christus Victor in the Lord's Prayer

The Works of Mercy

Central Tendency in Skewed Distributions: A Lesson in Social Justice

Be Human in This Most Inhuman of Ages...

The Jesus Poems: Cana

The Monastic in the House: Prayer versus the Dishes

Peter Rollins's Response

Gungor Live and The Brilliance

Church as Fan Service

The Evangelical Universalist Forum

On Blog Arguments and Dumbfounding

The Jesus Poems: Incarnation

My Guide to Blogging Success

There is Only More Darkness

I Am a Worm

The Bureaucrat

Litany of Penitence

I Hate Religion Too, But For Different Reasons

Was Freud Right?

On Dress, Divinity, and Dumbfounding

Interview with The Other Journal

god

The Deus Ex Machina in Insurrection and The Authenticity of Faith

Seeing Her

Insurrection: A Critique

there is no answer / but loving one another

Race, Politics, and Christianity in the American South

Call No Man on Earth Father: A Comment on "Masculine Christianity"

"I Hate, I Despise Your Religious Festivals"

I'll Fly Away

Meditations on the Little Way: Epilogue, The Dark Night of Faith and Love

Wired to Suffer: On Theodicy and Personality

Liam's Wells

Sandcastles Between the Tides of Sorrow and Time

Why The Bible Made Impossible is Impossible

George MacDonald on Salvation: "In Jesus Christ I See the Very God I Want"

The Authenticity of Faith Now Available

Warhorse

Among Those For Whom No One Else Cares

Meditations on the Little Way: Part 4, The Elevator to Jesus: The Practice of the Little Way

A Bedtime Prayer on MLK Day

Mountaintop

On Subversion and Shame: I Like the Color Pink

Forget Your False Teachers

Meditations on the Little Way: Part 3, "My Vocation is Love"

Adam's First Wife

This is Not the End

Meditations on the Little Way: Part 2, Story of a Soul

Meditations on the Little Way: Part 1, Thérèse of Lisieux and the Democratization of Holiness

The Medal of St. Benedict

It's Still Christmas