Sitemap - 2018 - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck
The Argument Between God and Israel
Journal Week 52: Happy New Year!
The Footnotes of Fleming Rutledge
Teach My Heart This Day Where and How to Find You
Journal Week 51: Family Christmas
A Rant On Ugly Christmas Sweaters
Progressive Christians, sin and Sin
Journal Week 50: A Year With The Message
The Assassination of Medgar Evers
Journal Week 49: Christmas Gifts for the Johnny Cash Fan
On Satan and Monotheism: Explanation vs Adversary
The Grace We Could Extend to One Another
Journal Week 48: Early Caroling in Prison
The Lament Psalms and Emotional Atheism
Journal Week 47: Waiting for Advent
The Metaphysics of Morality: Part 4, Everyone Hallows
The Metaphysics of Morality: Part 3, Metaphysical Smuggling
The Metaphysics of Morality: Part 2, The Somatic Marker Hypothesis and Ethics as What You Care About
The Metaphysics of Morality: Part 1, Moral Axioms and Reasoning
Journal Week 46: Johnny Cash Book Update, Some Help, and an Update
Sunday School with Judges: Part 4, This Is Not the King You Are Looking For
Sunday School with Judges: Part 3, Exodus, Again and Again
Sunday School with Judges: Part 2, Thorns and Snares
Sunday School with Judges: Part 1, Judges is Hard on Judges
There Is Mercy In Heaven, But The Road To It Is Paved By Our Merciful Acts On Earth
Apocalypse: Unveiling or Invasion?
The Advantage of Religious Over Humanistic Metaphysics
Journal Week 43: The Scooter Pre-Show
Saved By Faith, Hope, and Love
Journal Week 42: The Blood Medley
As You Pass Through the Valley of Weeping
Journal Week 41: Evangelist to Millennials
On Not Seeing Christ in the Stranger
It Is Necessary to Pass by the Dragon
Jesus Has This Effect On Dead People
Journal Week 40: An Angelic Date
A Third Christian Assertion About Evil
The Two Christian Assertions About Evil
Journal Week 39: Charm Bracelet
The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere
"So You're a Hard-Core Christian. Why?"
Journal Week 38: The Local Church
A Working Knowledge of the Devil
The Enchanted/Disenchanted Divide in Our Churches
Journal Week 37: Starting the Day With Prayer
Karl Barth on the Wisdom of Naivety
Human Beings Before the Kingdom
Journal Week 36: High School Chapel Speaker
On Social Media and Mental Health
On Faith and Church Problems: The Role of Mental Health
Journal Week 35: Sunday School Teacher
Welcome to the United States of America
Progressives On Judgment and Hell: Part 3, Moral Hallowing
Journal Week 33: The Last First Day of School is Hard on the Heart
Progressives On Judgment and Hell: Part 2, The Jesus Problem
Progressives On Judgment and Hell: Part 1, A Fondness for Hell
Journal Week 32: A Unique Approach to Paddle Boarding
As Long As a Single Person Is Lost, I Am Lost
Being Responsive to Correction
Journal Week 31: Happy Reunions
The Question of God's Existence
Non-Dualistic Thinking and Apocalyptic Theology
Welcome to the United States of America
An Inspector Calls: On the Little Way and Social Justice
Journal Week 29: Nursing and Love
Thoughts on Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity: Part 2, How Jesus is Lord in a World Come of Age
Thoughts on Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity: Part 1, The Issue of Consistency
Journal Week 28: Peeing on Flies
Respecting the Infant of Prague
Journal Week 27: Puppets in Prague
It's Not the Bible: Conscience as Authority in Protestantism
Journal Week 26: Jonathan Storment
Resistance is the Only Human Way to Live
Talking About God at Buchenwald
Journal Week 25: Things I Miss About Home
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer Became a Christian
The Cost of Discipleship: Bonhoeffer's Confirmation Class for Zionskirche Parish
Journal Week 24: Stones of Stumbling
The Transgressive Spirit: Part 4, "Go, And Do Not Discriminate."
The Transgressive Spirit: Part 3, The Transgressive Pentecost
The Transgressive Spirit: Part 2, I Will Pour Out My Spirit On All Flesh
The Transgressive Spirit: Part 1, Prophecy in an Unauthorized Zone
Journal Week 23: Leipzig, Germany
Before Each Person Are Life And Death
You Don't Have Time for "What Would Jesus Do?"
Living Between Gratitude and Guilt
Journal Week 22: On Rants and Social Media
'Tis a Fearful Thing To Love What Death Can Touch
On Gender, Power, and Sin: The Evangelical #MeToo Moment
Journal Week 21: Starting to Write
Our Problems With the Sermon on the Mount
Cycles of Victims and Violence
Journal Week 20: A Unique Pastoral Skill Set
A Peculiar People: Emotions and Spiritual Formation
Seeking the Place Where Justice and Peace Will Kiss
Non-Violent Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Journal Week 19: (Not) Minding the Gap
Beyond Social Justice: The Intimate Arena of Exorcism
Self-esteem Is a Religious Problem
God Is Love: Divine Impassibility Has a Branding Problem
Covenantal Versus Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Journal Week 18: The True and the Hard
Love, This Alone Can Open the Door of Truth
The Church and the State: The Martyrological Demand and a Contrast in Moral Authority
Advice for Progressives in Conservative Churches
Journal Week 17: The Brothers Karamazov
The Bible Project: The Read Scripture App
Building and Breaking Down Walls
Journal Week 16: Why Am I Still at Blogspot.com?
The Moral of the Sneetches: On Neurosis and Capitalism
Journal Week 15: The Author Not On Social Media
On Tribes and Community: Part 9, Liberalism is Loneliness
Meeting Our Stranger God at Your Church: Discussion Guide and Bulk Order Discounts Now Available!
Join the Becks on the Typology Podcast!
On Tribes and Community: Part 8, A Post-Evangelism Church?
Have Fun Out There: On Golf and the Sermon on the Mount
On Tribes and Community: Part 7, Progressive Christians and the Benedict Option
On Tribes and Community: Part 6, Our Kids Are Liberals
On Tribes and Community: Part 5, Tribes and Self-Criticism
Journal Week 13: The Stations of the Cross
On Tribes and Community: Part 4, Can You Have a Tribe Without All the Bad Stuff?
On Tribes and Community: Part 3, Can Progressive Christians Form a Tribe?
On Tribes and Community: Part 2, On Homecoming and Belonging
On Tribes and Community: Part 1, Progressive Loss and Nostalgia
Journal Week 12: Rugged Rosaries
Stranger God Discussion Guide Now Available!
The Authenticity of Faith: Part 9, Turning Toward Reconstruction
The Authenticity of Faith: Part 8, The Trade-Off of Anxiety and Hospitality
The Authenticity of Faith: Part 7, Winter Christians and Religious Commitment
Journal Week 11: My Book About the Little Way
The Authenticity of Faith: Part 6, The Defensive Theology Scale
The Authenticity of Faith: Part 5: Sick Souls, Winter Christians, and Saints of Darkness
The Authenticity of Faith: Part 4, Sigmund Freud vs. William James
The Authenticity of Faith: Part 3, Why Christians Need to Take Freud Seriously
The Authenticity of Faith: Part 2, A New Apologetics
The Authenticity of Faith: Part 1, Introduction
Seeking, Desiring, Loving and Finding
Journal Week 9: My Old Friend Lucifer Came
Holiness = Love: Part 4, The Most Holy Person Who Ever Lived
Holiness = Love: Part 3, Love Requires Self-Control
Holiness = Love: Part 2, The Capacity to Love
Holiness = Love: Part 1, The Opposite of Love?
Journal Week 8: Psychology and Christianity
The Princes of Persia, Greece and Israel: More on the Demonic and the Political
Journal Week 7: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Journal Week 6: God's Gonna Cut You Down
My Soul Pants For You: Faith as Affection
Journal Week 5: "I Don't Like the Sinner Part"
What Is the Right Thing To Do?
Good Friends, Good Food, and Good Conversation Over a Bottle of Wine: On How Not to Be Transgressive
Journal Week 4: The Bleeding, Stinking, Mad Shadow of Jesus
Idolatry is Primarily a Way of Life
Were Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us?
Journal Week 3: Losing Interest in Progressive Christianity
Let Your Baptism Be Your Armor
Living Reminders of God's Divine Presence
Let Us Die, Then, And Enter Into the Darkness
On Sacrifice: Effort, Investment and Excellence
Journal Week 2: Burned Clean By Flannery
Michael, the Devil and the Body of Moses
Paul's Mission to the Gentiles and the Noahide Laws
My Advice to Churches: Part 5, Go Bilingual
My Advice to Churches: Part 4, Providing Employment
Journal Week 1: A Very, Very White Christmas
My Advice to Churches: Part 3, Spiritual Formation and Direction
My Advice to Churches: Part 2, Baptism and a Covenantal Imagination