In “Religion in the Making” Whitehead defines Religion as “world-loyalty.”  There is a good deal more in the book to discuss at a later date (like after I get a new copy of it because all the pages fell out today!), but there is something important here.
Why? One could assume that Religion is, or at [...]

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Albums
5. Jon Foreman: Limbs And Branches
4. Ryan Adams: Cardinology
3. Black Crowes: Warpaint
2. Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs
1. Counting Crows: Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Theology Books (by subject)
Divine Action
Religion\Science
Christology
General Audience Theology
Historical Jesus
Paul

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Elgin did not want to leave my lap last night so we read through a favorite Paul Tillich book of mine from undergrad. It is a short book, 85 pages, based on a lecture series he gave where he connected the philosophical quest with the heart of Biblical religion. He concludes the last [...]

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The HBC Advent Podcast series keeps picking up more steam by the episode.  This week is the first of two podcasts that focus on the theological background of Advent, namely the Incarnation.  LeRon Shults is hopefully a familiar name to all those in the blog-o-sphere, because he regularly reveals goodness on the net.  In this [...]

 

 Evolutionary Biology and the Incarnation with LeRon Shults: Homebrewed Christianity ep.37 [44:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Advent Week One….John Dominic Crossan….Homebrewed Christianity…..Your Questions…..Audio Goodness.  We are real excited to have Crossan back at the HBC podcast and this conversation is an awesome way to kick off our Advent podcast series.  In his first visit Crossan discussed his book “God and Empire” and this time we focus on your questions about his [...]

 

 John Dominic Crossan on The First Christmas: Homebrewed Christianity ep. 34 [53:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I have been spending the last month looking through a number of Advent books and listening to different music albums trying to find things for my own use. I decided I would share the results because, well maybe some of you would enjoy some good advent reads and such, that isn’t full of Christmas [...]

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I am not sure this is what Phyllis Trible was thinking when she wrote ‘Texts of Terror,’ but then again if this musical takes off maybe they can get her to hep work on the sequel.

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Ed Cyzewski joins us this week on the HBC podcast, fresh off his whirlwind blog tour for his newest book “Coffee House Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life.”  I blogged about the book previously, so I will just say that Ed keeps getting cooler in my mind and this interview was tons of fun [...]

 

 Coffee House Theology with Ed Cyzewski: Homebrewed Christianity ep.32 [53:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I recently got a copy of Niebuhr’s journal as a young man and young minister, “Leaves From the Notebooks of a Tamed Cynic” at a used book sale and what a steal it was for a whole 25 cents.  Here’s two zinger quotes.  If you are a cynical Christian or recent div school grad [...]

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A friend is working on a paper on Pannenberg’s Christology and so I ended up rereading Pannenberg’s first Christology to prepare for a skype-cigar conversation. In this book Pannenberg marks his path between Bultmann and Barth and reframes Christology or the 20th century. This book is my favorite Christology (or at least in [...]

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