Sitemap - 2017 - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck
Prison Diary: This Boring Thing We Call Grace
The Guilt of Parents and Children
Salvation as Robbery: Christus Victor and Binding the Strong Man
The Moralization of the Parables
Prison Diary: It's Not a House
Stranger God and Johnny Cash's "The Christmas Guest"
Acting Like Jesus While Living Like Everyone Else
Our Need for Religious Experience: Part 4, Radical Openness to God
Our Need for Religious Experience: Part 3, The Marks of Mysticism
Our Need for Religious Experience: Part 2, William James on Religious Experience
Our Need for Religious Experience: Part 1, We Need to Bump Into God From Time to Time
Prison Diary: Brenden's Letters
Empathic Open Theism Revisited
Jesus and the Wesleyan Quadrilateral
The Temptation of Caesar: On Power, Sex and Politics
Prison Diary: Welcoming the Guards
In Returning and Rest You Shall Be Saved
Stranger God with Luke Norsworthy
The Gospels: King James Version
A Devil's Cauldron of Wickedness
Prison Diary: The Greatest Commands
The Most Important Word in Christianity: Part 4, Fruitful Intentionality
The Most Important Word in Christianity: Part 3, How Spiritual Disciplines Miss the Mark
The Most Important Word in Christianity: Part 2, The Missing Ingredient
The Most Important Word in Christianity: Part 1, We Are Drifting
Now On Sale! Stranger God: Meeting Jesus in Disguise
The Gospel According to Monsters
On Persuading the Church to be Like Jesus
The Purity Psychology of Progressive Christianity: "Do One Wrong Thing and You're Tainted"
The Attractions of Christian Metaphysics: Part 7, Metaphysics or Money
The Attractions of Christian Metaphysics: Part 6, The Weight of Enchantment
The Attractions of Christian Metaphysics: Part 5, Cruciform Love
Prison Diary: Two Candlesticks
The Attractions of Christian Metaphysics: Part 4, Universal Human Worth and Dignity
The Attractions of Christian Metaphysics: Part 3, The Prophetic Capacity
The Attractions of Christian Metaphysics: Part 2, Beyond Self-Esteem
The Attractions of Christian Metaphysics: Part 1, Image and Fall
Nature and the Imagination of Jesus
Shame at the Well and Behind Bars
Prison Diary: Washing Feet Is Still Hard to Do
The Spirit is Salvation: Part 6, Spirit and Law
The Spirit is Salvation: Part 5, Life and Death
Prison Diary: Play Us a Song, You're the Piano Man
The Spirit is Salvation: Part 4, The Mechanism and Means of Salvation
The Spirit is Salvation: Part 3, Salvation and Spirit in the Gospels and Acts
The Spirit is Salvation: Part 2, Divine Radiation in the Superhero Movie of Salvation
The Spirit is Salvation: Part 1, The Missing Piece
Prison Diary: Set Free From the Power of the Devil
This Is What Makes Us Christians
Last Call: Reviving Old Scratch Just $2.99
And the Violent Take It By Force?: Part 3, Forcing Your Way Into the Kingdom
And the Violent Take It By Force?: Part 1, What Does Matthew 11:12 Mean?
The Obligations of Grace: Part 4, Beyond Feeling Saved
The Obligations of Grace: Part 3, Falling From Grace
The Obligations of Grace: Part 2, Faith and Works
The Obligations of Grace: Part 1, The Reciprocity of Grace
The Crucifixion of God: On Tribes and Self-Criticism
The Book of Jonah: On Tribalism and Self-Criticism
On Tribes, Tribalism and Self-Criticism
Amos 9.7: On Tribalism and Self-Criticism
Reviving Old Scratch $2.99: Fortress Press Summer eBook Sale
"You Never Stopped Calling Me Señora"
On the Streets of LA After Hours
The Swallows of Mission San Juan Capistrano
Fortress Press E-Boook Sale: Reviving Old Scratch Just $2.99
One Who Cries Out Against Evil Men...
Delighting in the Law of the Lord
Prison Diary: Rob Bell in Prison
Psalm 37 and the Imagination of Jesus
“The Battle to be Like Jesus is Won or Lost in Milliseconds”
Reading the New Testament in 89 Days
The Wicked Problems of Jails and Prisons
That Man Is the Whole Human Race
Prison Diary: Prison Pamphlets
Calming the Storm and the End of Exile
Prison Diary: The Eye Glass Hustle
Burning Love is the Outcry of the Heart
We Are Saved By Feelings Alone
The Great Irony of Spiritual Warfare
That's Not God You Are Feeling, It's Called Vacation
Prison Diary: Fashion Statements, Part 2
A Hard, Difficult, and Terrible Beauty
Prison Diary: Fashion Statements, Part 1
The God Who Cannot Be Defined In Words
Jay Stephen's Johnny Cash Cover of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
The Language Trap: Otherness and Reality
Picking Fights with Chaps: Leadersmithing, Virtue and Spiritual Disciplines
How (Transgressive) Beauty Will Save the World
The Book of Jonah and the Scandal of Enemy Love
Satan, the Psalms and Violence
Prison Diary: From the Revivalistic to the Ethical
N.T. Wright and the Atonement: Part 2, Christus Victor and the Forgiveness of Sins
N.T. Wright and the Atonement: Part 1, Atonement as Passover
Missing the Climax of the Gospel Story
Prison Diary: About Those Toliets
There Is Nothing For You To Do, But You Can Come Eat With Us
When We Think of Ourselves We are Perturbed
Suffering to Give Birth to a New World
Prison Diary: How To Stay Cool
The Damage We Would Do To Each Other If We Had "The Explanation"
The Kingdom of God Comes to Us As a Child
The Call to Hospitality at Fuller Theological Seminary
Prison Diary: The Monday Night Bible Study Cookbook
The Paradoxes of Progressive Political Theology: The Paradox Revisited
The Paradoxes of Progressive Political Theology: Niebuhrian, But Not Niebuhrian Enough
The Paradoxes of Progressive Political Theology: On Liberals and Liberationists
Mailbag Podcast with Luke Norsworthy
The Paradox of Progressive Political Theology
Empathy and the Kingdom: Part 5, The Wisdom of the Kingdom
Empathy and the Kingdom: Part 4, Do Good to All, But Especially to the Family of Believers
Reviving Old Scratch: Academy of Parish Clergy Book of the Year
Empathy and the Kingdom: Part 3, The Scale of Empathy
Empathy and the Kingdom: Part 2, Empathy + Social Media = Continual Collective Freakout
Empathy and the Kingdom: Part 1, What Is So Bad About Empathy?
Prison Diary: The Lockdown Is Over!
Community as a Monastic Calling
Reviving Old Scratch for $2.99!
Wash This Way: Instead of a Coffee Shop How About a Laundromat?
Slaying the Dragon: Part 6, You Can't Have a Victory If You Don't Have a Dragon
Slaying the Dragon: Part 5, The Dragon Pharaoh
Prision Diary: Bilingual Bible
Slaying the Dragon: Part 4, Haunts of Foul and Hateful Beasts
Slaying the Dragon: Part 3, The Dragons and the Powers
Slaying the Dragon: Part 2, The Other Sea Monster
Slaying the Dragon: Part 1, Satan and Sea Monsters
Prison Diary: Shakedown Holiday
Mercy is the Lifeblood of Fasting
God Pursues Us Even After Death: The Harrowing of Hell and Universal Reconciliation
They Left Him to Die Like a Tramp on the Street
A Progressive Vision of the Benedict Option: Cruciformity Over Culture
Prison Diary: The Currency That Binds Everyone
Join My DMin Class on Hospitality at Fuller!
Set Free from the Hunter's Snare
Prison Diary: An Imagination for Peace
Crescimento Limpo: Helping Washington Walk
The Accidental Empire: Christian Resistance in the Age of Trump
The Democratization of Holiness
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower
Progressive Christianity in the Age of Trump: Four Concerns
The Bullshit of the Trump Administration
Lovin' On the Freakshow Sitting Next to You: The Church According to Twenty One Pilots
The Gospel According to Twenty One Pilots
Prison Diary: One Room School House
Democracy and The Demonization of the Good
Divine Violence and Christus Victor: Martyn Smith
Grace Creates a New Social Reality
Gift and a New Social Imagination
Not Obeying the Sermon on the Mount
The Dark Spell the Devil Casts: Refugees and Our Slavery to the Fear of Death
The Addict as Prophet: Part 6, Modernity and Loneliness
The Addict as Prophet: Part 5, Modernity and Boredom
The Addict as Prophet: Part 4, Modernity and Arbitrariness
The Addict as Prophet: Part 3, Addiction As the Mirror of Modernity
The Addict as Prophet: Part 2, Addiction as Habit
The Addict as Prophet: Part 1, The Need for a Theology of Addiction
Start Passing the Peace: Part 3, We Need a Liturgy of Peace
Start Passing the Peace: Part 2, The Foundation of Christian Community
Start Passing the Peace: Part 1, Think About the Introverts!
Prison Diary: La Paz de Cristo sea con vosotros
On Spiritual Warfare: Dualism vs. Apocalyptic
Desires, Liturgies and the Kingdom: Part 4, Wanted: Liturgies for Loving the Hard to Love
Prison Diary: Reunions and the Greeting Line
Desires, Liturgies and the Kingdom: Part 3, Jesus is My Boyfriend
Desires, Liturgies and the Kingdom: Part 2, The Hypocrisy of Not Raising Your Hands
Desires, Liturgies and the Kingdom: Part 1, Liturgy Isn't A Magic Bullet
Their Homeland is a Foreign Country
Prison Diary: Our Friday Series for 2017
Open Communion in the Church of the Crucified Christ