Sitemap - 2016 - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck
Personal Days: End of the Year
Experimental Theology Years in Review 2006-2015
The Slaughter of the Innocents: Did Herod Make a Mistake?
Personal Days: Merry Christmas from the Becks!
Our Spirit Should Be Quick to Reach Out Toward God
Favorite Advent and Christmas Reflections
The Day the Revolution Began: Atonement Theology Needs Old Scratch
Personal Days: Divine Office, Vol. 1
The Day I Started Believing in the Devil
Behind Bars With The Lord of the Rings: Part 5, Samwise Gamgee
Behind Bars With The Lord of the Rings: Part 4, The Weapons of the Battle
Behind Bars With The Lord of the Rings: Part 3, The Heroes of the Story
Behind Bars With The Lord of the Rings: Part 2, The Ring of Power
Behind Bars With The Lord of the Rings: Part 1, The Perfect Movie for a Maximum Security Prison
Personal Days: The Beck Christmas Trees
The Fractured Republic: Part 4, The Scale of Christian Social Action
The Fractured Republic: Part 3, Subsidiarity
The Fractured Republic: Part 2, Everything Starts Looking Like a Nail
The Fractured Republic: Part 1, Blinded By Nostalgia
Thanksgiving Is the Liturgy of Christian Living
More on How to Overcome Prejudice and Discrimination According to the Early Church
How to Overcome Racism According to the Early Church
Personal Days: See You at AAR/SBL!
The Kingdom Comes When You Get In My Face
Preterism and the Gospels: Part 8, Eschatology Revisited
Preterism and the Gospels: Part 7, Prophet of Love and Peace and Prophet of Apocalyptic Doom
Personal Days: ACU Faculty Lip Sync Battle
Preterism and the Gospels: Part 6, The Sign of His Coming and the End of the Age
The Kingdom of God, November 9, 2016
Preterism and the Gospels: Part 5, All These Things Will Come Upon This Generation
Preterism and the Gospels: Part 4, The Great Winnowing
Preterism and the Gospels: Part 3, The Kingdom Has Come
Personal Days: Hillary Clinton
Preterism and the Gospels: Part 2, John the Baptist and the Day of the Lord
Preterism and the Gospels: Part 1, The Problem Is Eschatology
All Saints Day: Remembering Beth
The Gospel According to Stranger Things
Personal Days: All Aboard the Blue Train!
On Miracles: Part 5, A Hermeneutics of Gratitude
On Miracles: Part 4, Relationship With God
On Miracles: Part 3, Hallowing
On Miracles: Part 2, Meaning Over Mechanism
On Miracles: Part 1, Building Bridges
At the Boundary of Holy and Unclean: Grace as Community
At the Boundary of Holy and Unclean: Monsterous Hospitality
Personal Days: The Sky and the Butterflies
A Prison Story: A Book Both Holy and Unclean
Personal Days: My Favorite Election Year Graph
Song of the Three Holy Children
Personal Days: Hart Auditorium
Crescimento Limpo Horta Update
The Spiritual Dimensions of Justice Work
Does the Devil Exist?: Resistance Over Existence
Personal Days: Touching Up the Trinity
God's Servant for Your Good: Part 6, The Greatest Source of Suffering in the World
God's Servant for Your Good: Part 5, "One Could Do As One Pleased Only With Stateless People"
God's Servant for Your Good: Part 4, Do Black Lives Matter in Ghettoside?
God's Servant for Your Good: Part 3, Political Theology in a Land of 911
God's Servant for Your Good: Part 2, The Locust Effect
God's Servant for Your Good: Part 1, Heartburn
Father Daniel Berrigan: Poet, Priest, Prophet
Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 9, The Prince of This World
Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 8, The Demon Haunted City
Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 6, The Origins of Hell
Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 5, The Lord of the Flies
Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 4, Lucifer is the King of Babylon
Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 3, Territorial Spirits and Angelic Warfare
Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 2, The King as Guardian Angel
Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 1, The Angels of the Nations
Personal Days: Home Goes With You
Brazil Reflections: The Wealth of the Favela
Brazil Reflections: The Dead Christ in Church
Brazil Reflections: St. Francis and the Fiery Seraph Wings
Brazil Reflections: Our Lady of Aparecida and Black Madonnas
Personal Days: Texting Breakthrough
Brazil Reflections: A Selfie With Christ the Redeemer
Jesus and the Jolly Roger: Part 6, The Pirate Code of the Kingdom of God
Jesus and the Jolly Roger: Part 5, Living Under the Sign of Death
Jesus and the Jolly Roger: Part 4, Raising Merry Hell
Jesus and the Jolly Roger: Part 3, The Curious Case of Captain Jack Sparrow
Jesus and the Jolly Roger: Part 2, The Violent Take It By Force
Jesus and the Jolly Roger: Part 1, The Kingdom of God Is Like a Pirate
I Am Done With Great Things and Big Things
A Progressive Vision of The Benedict Option
Personal Days: Prayers for French Robertston Unit
You Cannot Love Jesus Unless You Speak to Him
Edging Toward Enchantment: Hallowing Life
Edging Toward Enchantment: Enchanted Evil
Personal Days: iPhone Homescreen
Edging Toward Enchantment: More Than a Watch
Edging Toward Enchantment: Anointing with Oil
Edging Toward Enchantment: Prayer as Hallowing
Edging Toward Enchantment: Existential Jujitsu
Edging Toward Enchantment: Practice Resurrection
Personal Days: Roller Derby Fans
Edging Toward Enchantment: The Enchantments of the Shire
Edging Toward Enchantment: Liberals Condemn Sacrilege Too
Edging Toward Enchantment: Romantic Christianity
The Devil, Not So Black and White
Personal Days: Praying With Hank Williams
Edging Toward Enchantment: Doubting in the Other Direction
Edging Toward Enchantment: The Eccentric Self and the Holy Spirit
Edging Toward Enchantment: Openness to Surprise
Edging Toward Enchantment: Incurvatus In Se
Edging Toward Enchantment: Closing the Doors of Perception
Edging Toward Enchantment: The Disenchanted Self
Blaming the Devil: Empathy and Responsibility
Neo-Reformed Theology and Suffering: What Happens When God Becomes a Math Problem
Christian Pop Music Circa 1950
Reviving Old Scratch Now Available On Kindle
Summer and Winter Revisited: Comparing Hymns with Psalms
Summer and Winter: Modern Christian Pop vs Shape-Note Hymns
Edging Toward Enchantment: Dripping Sacramentals
Let Us Visit Christ Whenever We May
Edging Toward Enchantment: Recovering a Catholic Imagination
Edging Toward Enchantment: A Sacramental Ontology
Edging Toward Enchantment: The World Is Charged With the Grandeur of God
Edging Toward Enchantment: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction
Edging Toward Enchantment: Updrafts of Enchantment
Edging Toward Enchantment: The Devil for Doubters
Pentecost for Progressives: The Nomad Podcast
Personal Days: Playing on the Praise Band
Edging Toward Enchantment: Scooby-Doo and the Journey Toward Disenchantment
Edging Toward Enchantment: Miracle Stories
Reviving Old Scratch on Newsworthy With Norsworthy and a 30% Promotional Discount
Personal Days: Jana Among the Theologians
Dreamy and Devilish Thoughts: Description vs. Explanation in Theology
Let Me Introduce You to the Devil: Reviving Old Scratch Now For Sale
Even the Sparrow Has Found a Home
The Innate Violence of Activism
Personal Days: Husband to a Drama Teacher
Violence is a Profound Forgetting
I Hold Myself in Quiet and Silence
He Knew Himself to be Loved by Christ
Is It Lawful To Do Good On the Sabbath?
The Medal of St. Benedict: Bracelet Edition
Reviving Old Scratch Book Launch Event With N.T. Wright and Greg Boyd
Personal Days: Dear Hank Williams, I've Seen the Light
Put Away the Sword: Tragedy and Eschatology
Christus Victor and St. Michael the Archangel
Love, Let Us Be True To One Another
Believing in God Non-Defensively
On the Selfishness of Prayer: If You Pray Only For Yourself You Will Be Praying For Yourself Alone
Calvin and Hobbes: Religious Experience and Imagination
Faithfulness In Corrupt Systems
Awake, O Sleeper, and Rise from the Dead
I Have Given You a Model to Follow
The Passionate Man Often Thinks Evil of a Good Man
Blood Medleys, the Devil and Good Transcendence?
Behold: Your King is Coming to You
Question the Beauty of the Earth
The Four Arguments for Affirming Same-Sex Marriages
#1 Bestseller in Angelology & Demonology?
Personal Days: Welcome the Little Children
When the Bible Is Worse Than a Whisky Bottle
Johnny Cash: The Criminologist Within
Learning To Live With Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Personal Days: Lamenting for Los Arcos
An Unbelieving and Perverse Generation and the Suffering of Children
Personal Days: Statistics Teacher
You Cannot Make Others As You Wish Them To Be
The Power of the Powerless: Part 5, To Live Within the Truth
The Power of the Powerless: Part 4, Each Helps the Other to Be Obedient
Personal Days: Contraband Birthday Card
The Power of the Powerless: Part 3, A Bridge of Excuses
The Power of the Powerless: Part 2, Ritual Legitimation
The Power of the Powerless: Part 1, The Glue Holding It Together
Personal Days: Watching a Basketball Game with St. Augustine
The Perfections of Grace in Calvinism, Arminianism and Universalism
Paul and the Gift: Part 6, The Obligations of Grace
Paul and the Gift: Part 5, A Radically New Foundation for Community
Paul and the Gift: Part 4, Paul's Incongruous Grace
Paul and the Gift: Part 3, Liberality as the Seventh Perfection of Grace
Paul and the Gift: Part 2, The Six Components and Perfections of Grace
Paul and the Gift: Part 1, The Personality of Grace
Personal Days: Christmas Presents
The Cleansing and Contamination of Baptism
A Bruised Reed He Will Not Break
Personal Days: Toilet Paper and The Choice Paradox
Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted
A Progressive Vision of the Benedict Option: Part 5, Sabbath as Resistance
Personal Days: A New Friday Series for 2016
A Progressive Vision of the Benedict Option: Part 4, Why Progressive Christians Need the Ben Op
A Progressive Vision of the Benedict Option: Part 3, How to Avoid the Dark Side
A Progressive Vision of the Benedict Option: Part 2, Avoiding the Ben Op of the Pharisees
A Progressive Vision of the Benedict Option: Part 1, The Promise and Challange of the Ben Op