Sitemap - 2015 - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck
Experimental Theology Years in Review 2007-2014
Disinterested Religion As True Religion
Running After the Perfect Community
Christmas Carols as Resistance Literature
The Problem at the Heart of My Christianity...
The Desire of Your Heart Is Itself Your Prayer
Krampus (2015): A Theological Review
Loving Your Way Into the Kingdom
Elijah and the Widow: An Advent Meditation
Everything I Learned About Christmas I Learned from TV
Poured Out As a Drink Offering
Piss Christ in Prison: An Unlikely Advent Meditation
The Dark Spell the Devil Casts: Refugees and Our Slavery to the Fear of Death
Unpublished: Evil and Grace in Bureaucracy
The World Is Made Holy Through Thanks
Don't Make a Mess in Your Heart
Owning Your Protestantism: We Follow Our Conscience, Not the Bible
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: Part 5, Things Hidden from the Foundation of the World
The Voice of the Scapegoat: Part 4, The Whispers of Victims
The Voice of the Scapegoat: Part 3, The Bloody Antimyth
The Voice of the Scapegoat: Part 2, Sacred Violence, Scapegoats, and Myth
The Voice of the Scapegoat: Part 1, The Crisis of Penal Substitutionary Atonement
A Faith Painted in Bolder Brushstrokes
"The People At Our Church Die A Lot"
From Attachment Theory to Winter Christianity: Part 4, Winter Christianity
From Attachment Theory to Winter Christianity: Part 3, Is Relational Distress Pathological?
From Attachment Theory to Winter Christianity: Part 2, Anxiously Attached to God
From Attachment Theory to Winter Christianity: Part 1, The Attachment Bond and God
Unpublished: Watching Empires Fall
Emotional Intelligence and Sola Scriptura
If Only Everybody Could Realize This. But It Cannot Be Explained.
The Force That Can Blow This Idiocy Sky-high
The Liturgy of the Hours: Some Recommendations for Starting Out
Unpublished: There is an Element of Discipline in Being Prepared for Joy
Boston University Lecture Tomorrow: From Disgust to Dehumanization
Regional Demons and Territorial Spirits
Unpublished: The Daily Witness of the Christian in the World is Essentially Sacramental
The Lost Art of the Church Potluck
Let Us Be the Heart Of the Church Rather Than the Amygdala
The Hypocrisy of the Benedict Option
Tzimtzum, Cruciformity and Theodicy
Unpublished: To the Big Spoons
Thérèse of Lisieux and the Little Way
When You See the Donkey of Someone Who Hates You
Love is the Allocation of Our Dying
We Feel More Comfortable With Power Than With Powerlessness
Unpublished: Looking Like a Donkey
Newsworthy with Norsworthys: On Suffering Well
Unpublished: Liturgies of Polarization
Online Debates and Stages of Change
We Could Believe We Loved Everyone
Practice Resurrection: Hope to See You at Oklahoma Christian University
Unpublished: Weakness and the Kingdom
And Thus Collide With the World
Unpublished: Love Well Locally
Do We Know What It Means To Be Struck By Grace?
Neurosis is the Avoidance of Legitimate Suffering
Down By the Riverside / Ain't Gonna Study War No More
Unpublished: The Seventy Weeks Prophecy
Bus Ride to Justice: Toward Racial Reconciliation in the Churches of Christ
The Gospel According to Ta-Nehisi Coates: Part 6, Struggle, Love and the Kingdom of God
The Gospel According to Ta-Nehisi Coates: Part 5, Guilt, Grace and the Powers
Unpublished: Why Are There Few Progressive Mega-Churches?
The Gospel According to Ta-Nehisi Coates: Part 4, A Body More Fragile
The Gospel According to Ta-Nehisi Coates: Part 3, The Dream
The Gospel According to Ta-Nehisi Coates: Part 2, Race, Empire and Domination
The Gospel According to Ta-Nehisi Coates: Part 1, Between the World and Me
Unpublished: Is the Father's Love Stronger Than Death?
Not Like the Gods You Already Know
The Theology of Faërie: Part 6, The Fairy-Story That Entered History
The Theology of Faërie: Part 5, The Good Catastrophe
Unpublished: What Does It Mean to Have Faith?
The Theology of Faërie: Part 4, Glorious Treachery
The Theology of Faërie: Part 3, The Wonder of Things
The Theology of Faërie: Part 2, The Elvish Art and Desiring Dragons
The Theology of Faërie: Part 1, The Enchantment of the Inklings
Unpublished: Theology Is Personal
There is a Story Guiding Love to Love
The Devil on a Wiffle Ball Field
Unpublished: The First Thing I Ever Wanted
On Discoveries in Used Bookstores
I Did Not Make It. It Is Making Me.
Unpublished: Easter Morning (A Poem)
Black Heroism and White Sympathy: A Reflection on the Charleston Shooting
Unpublished: Doubts Aren't That Important
Broad Is the Way That Leads To Destruction
To the Girl With the Rainbow Stairs
All Aboard the Blue Train: Johnny Cash and the Train Song
Unpublished: A Letter to My Class On Being Prepared for Sadness
Sitting Among the Gravestones in the Churchyard of St. Andrews in Castle Combe
Unpublished: Wasting the Body and Blood of Jesus
Dry Bones, You Shall Live: Preterism and the Resurrection of the Dead
The Church is Dying and I Couldn't Be More Excited
Business Connect Host 2015: The Promise and Perils of Pluralism
Unpublished: Neurotic Christians
Business Connect Host 2015: Black Magic and Kenarchy
Business Connect Host 2015: Are the Powers Evil or Fallen?
Business Connect Host 2015: The Costs of Capitalism
Business Connect Host 2015: Entrepreneurial Churches and Giving People Work
The Prayer of Faith Shall Save the One Who is Sick
The Purity Psychology of Progressive Christianity: "Do One Wrong Thing and You're Tainted"
A Million Boring Little Things
"The Lord's Will": Thoughts About Death, Stoicism and Progressive Christianity
Another Pool of Blood In Which I Am Willing to Stand
Prayer as Eucharistic Identity
Unpublished: The Wounds of Progressive Christians
Being The Man in Black: It's Harder Than You Think
Conversation With Rob Bell, Part Two
A Friend of the World Becomes an Enemy of God
Finding God in All the Wrong People
Rob Bell at Newsworthy With Norsworthy
Unpublished: The Good Samaritan
Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News
The Hermeneutics of the Temple Action: The Theological Scars of Empire
The Hermeneutics of the Temple Action: Jesus, Empire and Othering Violence
The Hermeneutics of the Temple Action: Jesus and Violence Toward People or Property?
Unpublished: Disagreement in Community
Knowing the Things That Make For Peace
Rethinking Heaven and Hell: On Preterism, N.T. Wright and the Churches of Christ
Washing Dishes at Freedom Fellowship
Unpublished: Refuse to Blow the Candles Out
On Free Will and Restless Hearts
How Not to Kill a Muslim: A Manifesto of Hope for Christianity and Islam in North America
Unpublished: Faith as Hallowing
Blood of Christ Be Our Salvation
A Holy Saturday Meditation: The Cross is the Devil's Mousetrap
A Good Friday Meditation: The Isenheim Altarpiece
Killing Jesus: A Movie for Progressive Christians
Where David Plays the Tambourine
See You at the Pepperdine Lectures
They Shall Take Up Serpents: On Snakebite, Fear and Love
Zach Lind on "The Gospel According to Phil Collins"
Unpublished: The Small Politics of the Church
The Purity Psychology of Progressive Christianity: Scrupulosity
Unpublished: Beholden to the Principalities and Powers
The Purity Culture of Progressive Christianity: Additional Reflections
The Lord Saw That She Was Not Loved
Selma 50th Anniversary 1965-2015
The Purity Culture of Progressive Christianity
The 50th Anniversary of "Bloody Sunday"
Traces of Polytheism in 2 Kings
A Lenten Reflection: On Sin and Self-Deception
Unpublished: Being Church of Christ
No Truths, Only Objects of Love
I Don't Believe in Universalism
Bonhoeffer and the Negro Spiritual
Unpublished: Addicted to Stories
Newsworthy with Norsworthy: The Haircut Episode (and a Bit of Ash Wednesday)
"A Bid For the Attention of Strangers": Self-Esteem Through Shaming
Unpublished: Parenting and Politics
"Let My People Go!": On Worship, Work and Laziness
Instead of a Coffee Shop How About a Laundromat?
Kingdom of Cardboard and Spoils
The Super Bowl Commercials Prove God Exists
Unpublished: The Political Tragedy of America
The Therapeutic is the Political: Sabbath as Spiritual Warfare
The Biggest Obstacle to Spiritual Formation
Unpublished: A Sketch of Faith
The One Who Causes the Darkness
The Subversion of the Creator God
N.T. Wright on Newsworthy with Norsworthy
"Martin Luther, Stand Up for Truth."
Unpublished: In the Final Analysis Does the Bottom Line Win Out?
An Interruptive, Disruptive Force
Holiness Among Depraved Christians: Paul's New Form of Moral Flourishing
Unpublished: Being Biblical Means Being Doctrinally Tolerant
Schindler's Lament: Love, Sacrifice and Death
My 2015 Wish for the Progressive Christian Internet: More Conversation About Justice
Update and Invitation for UK Speaking Tour June 2015