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Experimental Theology Years in Review 2007-2013

Holiness Is Loving Others

The 10° Rule: Everyday Resistance and Practiced Acts of Nonconformity

C21 Ticket Giveaway

Search Term Friday: Jack Sparrow Trickster

For Unto Us a Child is Born

Poems

The Only Solution is Love

Annunciation

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Search Term Friday: Christmas Carols as Resistance Literature

Mary's Lullaby

The Zimzum of Love

Advent: A Prison Story

Quit Tone Policing the Psalms

Third Sunday of Advent

Search Term Friday: Jacob Marley

Everything I Learned About Christmas I Learned From TV

An Unlikely Advent Meditation: Piss Christ in Prison

Doublespeak and the Demonic

A Theology of Desire, Love and Marriage

Second Sunday of Advent

the night is not silent

Search Tearm Friday: Repose on the Flight to Egypt

Watching Their Flocks By Night: An Advent Meditation on Vigilance and Violence

God's Golden Rule

Raising Stones at the Gateway of Heaven: The Kingdom of God As Event

News of Great Joy

First Sunday of Advent

Search Term Friday: Summer and Winter Christians

Count Your Blessings

Giving a Friend a Lift

Honor the Outrage: A Reflection on 1 Corinthians 6 and the Ferguson Grand Jury Decision

Taking Notes While Listening to Walter Brueggemann

Scripture Tells Us That We Shall Not Oppress a Stranger

Search Term Friday: Ade Bethune and The Works of Mercy

When God Became the Devil

America's Prisons Are Broken

God Is...

Hallowing the Man

Convention Against Torture Protest

Search Term Friday: The White Rose Martyrs

Do Not Fear, Greatly Beloved, You Are Safe

A Change That Isn't Coming

It Would Be Easier

My Magic To Take Me Through the Dark Places

Search Term Friday: Gustavo Gutiérrez on Job (and More Reflections on Progressive Christians and Spiritual Warfare)

Be Baptized

A Conflict Between Sinners

Día de Muertos and Allhallowtide

Talking With The Dead

Search Term Friday: Halloween, Death and Monsters

You Kiss What You Love

The Metric of a Prophet

The Politics of Exalting the Humble

The Weakness of God and Sin: A Theological Sketch

Search Term Friday: Sinning In Your Heart

The Job of Doctrine

The Better Wine

Nadia Bolz-Weber Called Me What?: More On Christian Celebrity Culture

Search Term Friday: The Isenheim Altarpiece

Warfare Theology

Blood Trumps Everything: Why the Church Needs Her Martyrs

Christus Victor and Progressive Christianity

The Future of Churches of Christ: Table & Baptism

Pacifism and Holy Ingratitude

A Christological Reading of Psalm 68

Be Holy To Love Each Other

The Lord's Day as Sacrament

Search Term Friday: Theological Worlds

Faith as Quantum Superposition

The Philosopher

Two Brothers and Texas Rangers

Hell On Earth: The Church as the Baptism of Fire and the Holy Spirit

Search Term Friday: Cycling Morning

Abilene Roller Girls

Barbara, Stanley and Andrea: Thoughts on Love, Training and Social Psychology at ACU's Summit

The Things That Make For Peace

Gerald's Gift

Search Term Friday: Which Version of the Lord's Prayer?

The Impurity of Love

My Love Of What I Own May Be Killing Somebody Somewhere

Wiping the Blood Away

Coming to England June 2015 and a Speaking Invitation

Search Term Friday: Type 1 and Type 2 Errors and Deciding Who Is Going to Hell

Christians Should Give More Offense

God's Unconditional Love

This Morning Jesus Put On Dark Sunglasses

Abolish the Death Penalty

Search Term Friday: Damaged Goods

Fight for 15 // Strike Fast Food

Go With My Blessing. But I Warn You...

See You at Streaming October 9th-11th

Exodus Food

Search Term Friday: Salvation By Calvinball

The New Exodus

Doctor Who and Non-Violence

Eccentric Christianity: Part 7, The Eccentric Kingdom

More Than Three Minutes: Resistance and Grace in Ferguson

Search Term Friday: How Much Money Is Enough?

Eccentric Christianity: Part 6, The Eccentric Economy of Love

Eccentric Christianity: Part 5, Doubt, Gratitude and an Eccentric Faith

Eccentric Christianity: Part 4, Enchantment, the Porous Self and the Spirit

Eccentric Christianity: Part 3, Welcoming God in the Stranger

The Only Way I Know How To Save the World

The Passion of White America

Search Term Friday: The Threshing Floor of Araunah

Eccentric Christianity: Part 2, The Eccentric God, Transcendence and the Prophetic Imagination

Incarnational Theology and Mental Illness

Eccentric Christianity: Part 1, A Peculiar People

Be Converted

Our Inner Dying Grows To Meet That Death From Without

Search Term Friday: Judas Suicide

Love Your Way Through

The Lord of the Flies

Remembering James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman

Search Term Friday: Strange Loops and Theology

The Airy Christ

Wanted: Jesus Christ

Christ Confesses Us

The William Stringfellow Project: Conscience and Obedience

Search Term Friday: Theology of God as Parent

Mother Jones

Roller Derby Girls

"A Boy Named Sue": Who Wrote That Song?

Visiting and Evolving in Monkey Town

Search Term Friday: Seventy Times Seven

The Stillness Of the Heart's Passions, This is Praise Enough

Hebel, Grace and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Part 3, The Spirit of God

Hebel, Grace and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Part 2, Living as a Sacrament

Hebel, Grace and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Part 1, Beauty in the Midst of Death

Search Term Friday: Diagnosing Doubt

Authentic Transcendence

Witnessing Happiness

I Sit and Look Out

There is a Balm in Gilead

Search Term Friday: Jesus Hufflepuff

There Is Divine Meaning in the Life of the World

Saint Darwin

Freedom Summer: The 50th Anniversary

Search Term Friday: Ethnocentrism and Politics

Does Universal Reconciliation Involve Coercion and Force?

Why I Talk About the Devil So Much: The Devil, Enchantment and Non-Violence

On Preterism, the Second Coming and Hell

Christian Political Witness: A Review

Search Term Friday: How Many People Die By Handling Snakes?

They Said He Was An Outlaw

God Loves Human Beings

Are Progressive Christians Failures at Prison Ministry?

A Life With Bibles

Father's Day Podcast: Newsworthy with Norsworthy

Soulful Resistance

Prodigal Sons: We Are Living Question Marks

Join the Discussion: The Slavery of Death at The Burner Blog

The Love of Money

Search Term Friday: Insult Psychology

Down There By the Train

I Thank You God For Most This Amazing Day

Killers and Criminals

The Meanings Only Faith Can Reveal

Search Term Friday: Frankenstein Theology

Renunciation

The Reason We Gather

Worship Songs Aren't Just for God: On Lament and Old Hymnbooks

Death and Love on The Road

Learning to Lament: Giving Voice to the Winter Christian Experience

Progressive Christianity: Opting For Pragmatism Over Post-Modernism

Wearing a Crucifix

God's Love Is In Your Future: A Universalist Reading of Hosea

Empathic Open Theism

Search Term Friday: The Prayer of Jabez Made Me Sad

Colossians 3.12-14

On Religious Commitment and Violence: A Reading of the Akedah

Gain versus Gift: The Slavery of Death in Ecclesiastes

Redemption and the Goel

A Child of Yours

Search Term Friday: Anton Chigurh Problem of Evil

The Slavery of Death: Your Questions, My Answers

In Prison With Ann Voskamp

Never Pray Again: On Exorcism

Ingratitude is the Deadliest Sin

Search Term Friday: Adam's Wife Lilith

The Theology of Uglydolls

The Charism of the Charismatics: Part 7, The Preferential Option for the Poor

The Charism of the Charismatics: Part 6, The Heart Has a Way of Knowing

The Ovens at Buchenwald

The Charism of the Charismatics: Part 5, Bodies and Souls

Search Term Friday: Is Scooby Doo Demonic?

The Charism of the Charismatics: Part 4, Hermeneutics as Enchantment

The Charism of the Charismatics: Part 3, Surprised By God

The Charism of the Charismatics: Part 2, The Pentecostal Worldview

The Charism of the Charismatics: Part 1, Holy Ghost Conga Lines

Sunrise Easter Service at Freedom Fellowship

The Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53

Podcast with On Pop Theology

Noah, the Nephilim and the Descendants of Seth

The Slavery of Death: Q&A

Doubt and Cognitive Rumination

Search Term Friday: Good Ol Charlie Brown How I Hate Him

This Is To Have Succeeded

Sitting in the Pews of Ebeneser Baptist Church

All the Sick and Twisted Ways Power and Victimhood Have Screwed Us Up: On Kenosis and Contemplation

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Search Term Friday: Thomas Kinkade

All Friendship is Sacramental

Anointing With Oil

How Friendship Saves the World: Sacramental Friendships and the Strength of Weak Ties

The Psalms as Liberation Theology

Search Term Friday: Old Scratch

The Moral Compass of Modernity

The Victim Needs No Conversion

The Scriptural Stations of the Cross

Repent The Kingdom of Heaven Is At Hand: A Lenten Reflection

Video of Live Chat at Teaching Nonviolent Atonement

Practice Resurrection

On Christian Celebrity

Join Our Live Chat With the Raven Foundation

Growing Up Catholic: A Lenten Meditation

The Fuller Integration Lectures: Part 6, The Non-Violent, Peaceable Self

The Slavery of Death on Newsworthy with Norsworthy

The Fuller Integration Lectures: Part 5, "To Get the Kind of 'A' Ruby Got"

The Fuller Integration Lectures: Part 4, Kenosis as Pouring Out and Vomiting

The Fuller Integration Lectures: Part 3, You Are Beloved

Search Term Friday: The Real Nicolae Carpathia

The Fuller Integration Lectures: Part 2, Monuments of Self-Glorification in the Face of Death

"Remember You Are Dust"

Ash Wednesday

The Fuller Integration Lectures: Part 1, Can We Believe in God Non-Violently?

City of God by Sara Miles

Exploring the Music of Johnny Cash

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 8, A Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 7, The Birth of the Man in Black

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 6, I Will Let You Down, I Will Make You Hurt

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 5, San Quentin You've Been Living Hell To Me

Search Term Friday: Jesus Crucified Over Adam's Grave

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 4, Bitter Tears

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 3, The Man in Black

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Mark Love on the Outlaw, Sufferer and the Gospel

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 2, Sinner & Saint

The Theology of Johnny Cash: Part 1, I Walk the Line

Search Term Friday: Axe Body Spray

A Great Campaign of Sabotage

Renewing Our Native Religion

But Sing Again, Oh You Who Have the Heart

More on Playing God: Power, Force and Violence

Search Term Friday: I Am a Worm

Creation Wars in the Church?

The Opposite of Faith is Offense

Incarnations of God's Mercy

Playing God: Using Power to Empower

The Slavery of Death: Updates and a Wedding Sermon

Rock Star

Search Term Friday: Religionless Christianity

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: Epilogue, "How Can a Person Live?"

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: Chapter 6, The Charismatic Gifts

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: Chapter 5, "The Christian Resistance to Death"

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: Chapter 4, "Stratagems of the Demonic Powers"

Social Media as Sacrament: A Thought For Rachel

Search Term Friday: Angels Ruling Over Nations

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: Chapter 3, "The Moral Reality Named Death"

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: Chapter 2, Where is Jerusalem?

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: Chapter 1, America as Babylon

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: Prelude, "To Understand America Biblically"

Get Ready for Mr. Stringfellow!

Remembering Liam: Love Lasts Forever

To Make the Love of God Credible

David's Census: God or Satan?

The Heart of Wisdom: Chasing and Rest in Ecclesiastes

Life is Fleeting: Hebel in Ecclesiastes

Search Term Friday: Freud and Theology

The Slavery of Death Now On Sale

I'm Sick of Ego

Our "Ghetto" United

I Chose the Tears

Search Term Friday: Calvin and Hobbes Let's Go Exploring

The Categorical Imperative of Faith

Experimental Theology 2013 Year in Review