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Personal Days: End of the Year

Experimental Theology Years in Review 2006-2015

The Slaughter of the Innocents: Did Herod Make a Mistake?

Hateful

The Love of Stephen

For Unto Us a Child is Born

Personal Days: Merry Christmas from the Becks!

Our Spirit Should Be Quick to Reach Out Toward God

Be a Living Mystery

Favorite Advent and Christmas Reflections

The Day the Revolution Began: Atonement Theology Needs Old Scratch

Fourth Sunday of Advent

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

Third Sunday of Advent

Personal Days: First Snow

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

The Last Day

Resurrect Our Holy Fools

Second Sunday of Advent

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

First Sunday of Advent

Personal Days: Poems for Jana

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

America's Holocaust

Personal Days: See You at AAR/SBL!

The Kingdom Comes When You Get In My Face

UnClobber

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

Personal Days: Yes, And

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

The Orthodox Prayer Rope

The Jesus Prayer

Silencing Spiritual Warfare

Personal Days: My Favorite Election Year Graph

You Are Gift

Contemplative Prayer

Song of the Three Holy Children

Of Course God Exists

Personal Days: Hart Auditorium

I'd Rather Be At Church

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

Personal Days: Walden Pond

God's Servant for Your Good: Part 2, The Locust Effect

God's Servant for Your Good: Part 1, Heartburn

The Killing

Memento Mori

Personal Days: Pink iPhone

Father Daniel Berrigan: Poet, Priest, Prophet

Welcome to Crescimento Limpo

Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 10, The Spiritual Roots of Liberation Theology

Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 9, The Prince of This World

Personal Days: Game Night!

Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 8, The Demon Haunted City

Idolatry, Oppression and the Development of Demons: Part 7, The Gods of the Nations Became the Demons

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

Personal Days: 25th

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

Personal Days: Proverbs 27.14

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

Christianizing the Powers

Personal Days: Summer Trip

I Am Done With Great Things and Big Things

The Pope and the Devil

Wash This Way!

A Progressive Vision of The Benedict Option

Personal Days: Prayers for French Robertston Unit

Pokémon Go and Kingdom Eyes

You Cannot Love Jesus Unless You Speak to Him

Edging Toward Enchantment: Hallowing Life

Edging Toward Enchantment: Enchanted Evil

Personal Days: iPhone Homescreen

The Prince of Demons

Edging Toward Enchantment: More Than a Watch

Edging Toward Enchantment: Anointing with Oil

Edging Toward Enchantment: Prayer as Hallowing

Personal Days: Sacred Hearts

Edging Toward Enchantment: Existential Jujitsu

Edging Toward Enchantment: Practice Resurrection

The Origins of Lucifer

Lilith Revisited

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

Personal Days: Holy Relic

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

Personal Days: Birthday

Christian Pop Music Circa 1950

Reviving Old Scratch Now Available On Kindle

Summer and Winter Revisited: Comparing Hymns with Psalms

Growing Up Shape-Note

Summer and Winter: Modern Christian Pop vs Shape-Note Hymns

Personal Days: Summer Reading

Romans 8.35-39 (KJV)

Edging Toward Enchantment: Dripping Sacramentals

Let Us Visit Christ Whenever We May

Edging Toward Enchantment: Recovering a Catholic Imagination

Personal Days: Prison Bible

Edging Toward Enchantment: A Sacramental Ontology

Edging Toward Enchantment: The World Is Charged With the Grandeur of God

To Love Is To Be Vulnerable

Edging Toward Enchantment: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction

Personal Days: My Suitcase

Approval

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

Pleroopneumatic Christians

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

We Need a Satanic Hermeneutic

Personal Days: My Students

Is It Lawful To Do Good On the Sabbath?

Not To Be Weighed

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

Theology Is Affectional

Gratitude and Foreboding Joy

Put Away the Sword: Tragedy and Eschatology

The Five Loves

Personal Days: Family Golfing

Christus Victor and St. Michael the Archangel

Love, Let Us Be True To One Another

Believing in God Non-Defensively

I Don't Like Debl

Personal Days: Senior Year

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

#Tyranny

Faithfulness In Corrupt Systems

Awake, O Sleeper, and Rise from the Dead

Be the First to See

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?

The Theology of Thrift Stores

Behold: Your King is Coming to You

Personal Days: La Voz 93.3 FM

Empathy

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

Fragile Worshipers

Personal Days: I Love My Bike

The Wisdom of Tenderness

Christ of the Breadlines

The Five Paths to Repentance

This Is Jesus

Personal Days: Lamenting for Los Arcos

Making Things Beautiful

An Unbelieving and Perverse Generation and the Suffering of Children

A Failure of Imagination

Workers for the Harvest

Personal Days: Statistics Teacher

You Cannot Make Others As You Wish Them To Be

The Divine Office App

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 Words. The Ash. The Sign.

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 Circle of Our Affections

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

Personal Days: Wall Rosaries

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

A Jesus Hobbyist

The Cleansing and Contamination of Baptism

A Bruised Reed He Will Not Break

Pied Beauty

Personal Days: Toilet Paper and The Choice Paradox

Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted

The Great Experiment

A Progressive Vision of the Benedict Option: Part 6, The Limits of Liturgy and Becoming a Franciscan Community

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

Experimental Theology 2015 Year in Review