Did You You Know that Dietrich Bonhoeffer Was a Youth Pastor? [Book Week]
Last Friday I was wandering through my old stomping grounds, the National Youth Workers Convention, in Sacramento. Beside me was Andrew Root, a friend since we were both Ph.D. students at Princeton...
View ArticleNew Feminist Christianity [Book Week]
This fall I’m teaching Introduction to Theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Over the past decade, I’ve taught about a dozen different courses at half-a-dozen different schools....
View ArticleRob Bell’s Atonement
Marc Chagall’s “Yellow Crucifixion,” which hung on Jürgen Moltmann’s wall as he wrote The Crucified God.Unless you’ve been living under a rock (a rock without internet), you probably know that I’m...
View ArticleTheology for the People
As you may recall, I had a bit of a job transition this summer. After spending several years at sparkhouse, a division of Augsburg Fortress, and seeing the Animate series to completion, I got a...
View ArticleWill Preach for Hunt
I spent last weekend in Huron, South Dakota. This is the second year in a row that I’ve hunted there and preached at Grace Episcopal Church, the result of a pleading post that I put up last year. The...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Evangelical Theology? [#ETS2014 Liveblog]
This weekend I’m attending the Evangelical Theological Society and American Academy of Religion, and I will be liveblogging some of the sessions that I’m attending.“Assessing Stanley Grenz’s...
View ArticleThe Big Announcement
Last night was pretty epic, at least by AAR/SBL standards. We had a standing-room-only crowd for the live recording of Homebrewed Christianity with John Cobb, Catherine Keller, and Jack Caputo. IMO,...
View ArticleLadies and Gentlemen, We Have a Subtitle
I am in the final throes of edits on my next book — what promises to be my most important book. I’ve made no secret of the title, Did God Kill Jesus? And now, after much thought and several rounds of...
View ArticleIs Rob Bell This or That?
So, Rob Bell has a TV show coming out on December 21. This is the most long-awaited show in the history of Christendom. Ever since he moved from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Laguna Beach, California, from...
View ArticleNew Date, Final Cover, Big News #DGKJ
After sprinting the final couple miles of a marathon, just this morning I have turned in my final revisions on Did God Kill Jesus: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution. The on-sale...
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