Sitemap - 2019 - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck
Speaking of Hell and Damnation: Contrasting the Ultimate and Penultimate
Why Don't Churches Celebrate Christmas?
The Divine Comedy: Week 47, The Love That Moves the Sun and the Other Stars
Everything I Learned about Christmas I Learned from TV
An Invitation to "A Johnny Cash Christmas"
The Divine Comedy: Week 46, The Trinity
Piss Christ in Prison: An Unlikely Advent Meditation
Thank You, Anarchy: Part 3, The Tensions of Change
Thank You, Anarchy: Part 2, Horizontal Over Vertical
Thank You, Anarchy: Part 1, The People's Microphone
The Divine Comedy: Week 45, Our Final Guide
Deconstruction and Reconstruction During Advent
Friendship With the World and the Enemies of God
The Divine Comedy: Week 44, The Rose and the Bees
An Evening of Trains, Jesus, and Murder: Part 4, Hurt
An Evening of Trains, Jesus, and Murder: Part 3, The Man in Black
An Evening of Trains, Jesus, and Murder: Part 2, Folsom Prison Blues
An Evening of Trains, Jesus, and Murder: Part 1, Introduction
The Divine Comedy: Week 43, Faith, Hope and Love
Flannery O’Connor on the Eucharist
The Divine Comedy: Week 42, Thinking and Dancing With God
The Grain of the Universe: Ontology and Grace
The Tree of Life: The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace
The Divine Comedy: Week 41, Transhumanized
N.T. Wright on The Second Coming of Jesus
The Divine Comedy: Week 40, Love and Light
Hermeneutics as Spiritual Formation
The Trains, Jesus and Murder Soundtrack on Spotify!
The Beer I Had For Breakfast Wasn’t Bad So I Had One More For Dessert
San Quentin, You've Been Livin' Hell to Me
What Is the Gospel According to Johnny Cash?
Trains, Jesus, and Murder: Endorsements and Advance Reviews
The Divine Comedy: Week 39, Beatrice
Psychology, Theology and Halloween
The Divine Comedy: Week 38, Let Pleasure Be Your Guide
Business or the Bible? Thoughts about Science and Evangelicalism
The Generous Orthodoxy of Herman Melville
The Metaphysical Emotions: Part 5, Mattering
The Metaphysical Emotions: Part 4, Joy
The Divine Comedy: Week 37, Farewell to Virgil
Faith Lies (with Darrell Smith): Lie #7, Real Faith Is Blind Belief
The Metaphysical Emotions: Part 3, Hope
The Metaphysical Emotions: Part 2, Gratitude
The Metaphysical Emotions: Part 1, Metaphysics and Mental Health
The Divine Comedy: Week 36, Pornography Revisited
Faith Lies (with Darrell Smith): Lie #6, Faith Is a Private Matter
The Colonialism of Disenchantment: Part 3, Believing in Magic Justified Your Oppression
The Colonialism of Disenchantment: Part 2, WEIRD and White Spaces
The Colonialism of Disenchantment: Part 1, The Colonial Posture of Doubt
The Divine Comedy: Week 35, Lazy Love
Joseph and Jesus: Part 5, You Intended Evil, But God Intended Good
Joseph and Jesus: Part 4, Risk, Passion and Involvement
Joseph and Jesus: Part 3, A Break With the Past
Faith Lies (with Darrell Smith): Lie # 4, I Am Supposed to Protect and Defend God and My Faith
Joseph and Jesus: Part 2, The Forgiving Victim
On Freedom and Universal Salvation
Faith Lies (with Darrell Smith): Lie #3, The Devil is God’s Counterpart
Joseph and Jesus: Part 1, The Dead One Is Alive!
Parables: The Sheep and the Goats
Parables: The Sower and the Soils
The Divine Comedy: Week 34, Loving a Good Thing Too Much
Faith Lies (with Darrell Smith): Lie # 2, God is Angry and Doesn’t Like Me—Especially When I Sin
Parables: The Unforgiving Servant
Parables: The Treasure in the Field
Parables: The Wheat and the Tares
Please Help! A Prison Bible Study Request
Faith Lies (with Darrell Smith): Lie # 1, The Bible is Only the Literal Word of God
Me Versus We: Part 5, Prophetic Words
Me Versus We: Part 4, If Your Hand Causes You to Sin, Cut It Off
Me Versus We: Part 3, Economy, Not Sacrifice
The Divine Comedy: Week 33, Loving a Bad Thing
Faith Lies (with Darrell Smith): What Are Faith Lies?
Me Versus We: Part 1, The Plural You
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 10, Watchmen
The Divine Comedy: Week 32, The Three Ways Love Can Go Wrong
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 9, The Greatest Idol
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 8, Faith as Allegiance
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 7, Another King Named Jesus
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 6, The Political Paradox of the Kingdom
The Divine Comedy: Week 31, Even Our Sins Are Acts of Love
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 5, A Great Campaign of Sabotage
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 4, A Community Where Worry Becomes Irrelevant
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 3, The Kingdom Comes
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 2, The First Gospel Sermons
The Divine Comedy: Week 30, Good and Bad Loves
Teaching Acts in Prison: Part 1, The Ascention is the Key
One Either Lives Toward God Or Not
You Are A Fire That Takes Away the Coldness
Non-Credentialed Community and Meaning
The Divine Comedy: Week 29, Our Love is Not Depraved
A Vow of Affectional Stability
Take a Seat on the Back Row. (And God Bless McDonalds.)
The Divine Comedy: Week 28, Born to Love (PS. If You're Not Reading Fridays, Start Now!)
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 12, Progressive Christianity or Something Else?
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 11, Hope
Post-Pogressive Christianity: Part 10, Class
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 9, Sexuality
The Divine Comedy: Week 27, The Seven Deadly Sins
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 8, Science
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 7, Salvation
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 6, Love
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 5, Enchantment
The Divine Comedy: Week 26, The Three Steps of Repentance
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 4, The Bible
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 3, Church
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 2, Reconstruction
Post-Progressive Christianity: Part 1, Moving On
The Divine Comedy: Week 25, Peter's Keys
On Genesis 22: Give the Story a Little Respect
The Divine Comedy: Week 24, Purgation and Fitness for Divine Community
On Pornography: Part 3, Why Change?
On Pornography: Part 2, Two Assumptions
On Pornography: Part 1, Navigating the Tensions
Evil Stories: Part 3, The Problem of Evil is a Feature, Not a Bug
The Divine Comedy: Week 23, The Church's Curse Is Not the Final Word
Evil Stories: Part 2, Truth and Consquences
Evil Stories: Part 1, The Three Stories
Created for Some Definite Service
The Divine Comedy: Week 22, Reason, Revelation and Mystery
The Divine Comedy: Week 21, Humility
The Divine Comedy: Week 20, In Search of Freedom
Disenchanted Salvation: Part 3, A Spirit-Less Salvation
Disenchanted Salvation: Part 2, Salvation as Social Justice
Disenchanted Salvation: Part 1, The Disenchantment of Forensic Salvation
The Divine Comedy: Week 19, Purgatory
A Relapse Into Non-existence, if it Were Not Protected by the Word
The Human Being Was Disappearing: On Weakness and the Spirit
Paul and the Law in Galatians and Romans
The Divine Comedy: Week 18, Betrayal
Enchantment Shifting: Part 4: Discerning Among Mysticisms
Enchantment Shifting: Part 3, Immanent Versus Transcendent Mysticism
Enchantment Shifting: Part 2, Pagan and Christian Enchantments
Enchantment Shifting: Part 1, Are We Really Disenchanted?
The Divine Comedy: Week 17, The Tears of Lucifer
Theological Influences: Stanley Hauerwas
The Most Enchanted Time of the Year
The Divine Comedy: Week 16, Not Fire, But Ice
Theological Influences: Flannery O'Connor
He Is Not Here, For He Has Risen
The Bells and Whistles of Baptism
The Divine Comedy: Week 15, Dante's Dark Triad
Theological Influence: Will Campbell
Theological Influences: Catholicism and Orthodoxy
Theological Influences: Howard Thurman
Theological Influences: William James
The Divine Comedy: Week 14, Money, Power and the Church
Theological Influences: Thérèse of Lisieux
Theological Influences: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theological Influences: Liberation Theology
Theological Influences: Rene Girard
The Divine Comedy: Week 13, Casting Off Pride
Theological Influences: Dorothy Day
Theological Influences: Saint Francis
Theological Influences: William Stringfellow
The Divine Comedy: Week 12, The Tears of the Fall
Theological Influences: The Churches of Christ
Theological Influences: George MacDonald
Theological Influences: The Ingredients of Your Soup
September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
The Divine Comedy: Week 11, Reason Slave to Appetite
How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist
The Power of the Spirit in a Disenchanted Age
Bible Class with Bible-Triggered Progressives
The Divine Comedy: Week 10, Spirits Carried Along by the Battling Winds
Marriage and Jesus' View of Power
Marriage as Spiritual Formation
Don't Let the Bible Come Too Close
The Divine Comedy: Week 9, Which Sins are the Worst?
The Exact Imprint of God's Nature
The Divine Comedy: Week 8, Levels of Hell
Disenchantment, Death and Hope
The Salvation of the World: Church vs. Babylon
The Divine Comedy: Week 7, The Harrowing of Hell
The Salvation of the World: On Holiness and Mission
The Divine Comedy: Week 6, The Holding Tank
The Contradiction of Progressive Morality
The Divine Comedy: Week 5, Soteriological Patches
Behold, the Goat of God Who Takes Away the Sins of the World!
The Software of Dehumanization
More On Apocalyptic Mysticism: "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
The Divine Comedy: Week 4, You Get What You Want
Searching for an Apocalyptic Mysticism
Letter To My Class On the Secret to Happiness
You Will Come at Last to Love the Whole World
The Divine Comedy: Week 3, These Wretches, Who Had Never Truly Lived
There Is More Beauty Than Our Eyes Can Bear
Politics Will Not Fix What Ails Us
The Divine Comedy: Week 2, The Gates of Hell
Reading the Psalms: Part 4, i carry your heart with me
Reading the Psalms: Part 3, Too Romantic?
Reading the Psalms: Part 2, Being in Love with God
Reading the Psalms: Part 1, Stay Romantic
Richard Beck // Biography and Books
The Divine Comedy: Week 1, Reason Can't Get You All the Way to Heaven
Everyone Already Knows All the Answers