Pope Francis is awesome. Of course a progressive Protestant has long-standing issues with the RCC when it gets into certain waters but given a Pope is going to be a Catholic man, this one is the best kind Catholic. He recently published his Apostolic Exhortation to discuss the joy of the gospel … Read more about An Interview with the Pope… kind of
Entertaining Empire
I'm almost done reading The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins. The subtitle is "The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World". It is the follow up to his first book Confessions of an Economic Hitman. He details how global corporations, American … Read more about Entertaining Empire
TNT: Bible Bash with Brueggemann and Fretheim
Bo and Tripp riff off of Terence Fretheim and Walter Brueggemann answering the same set of questions. These two legends of Biblical Theology give us their best take on passages to preach when controversial subjects come up. Topics include: Economy Ecology Homosexuality Immigration Other … Read more about TNT: Bible Bash with Brueggemann and Fretheim
Maybe the Mayans Weren’t Wrong
In all of the hub-bub surrounding the Mayan apocalypse that came and went without incident, it was tough to resist the funny one-liner on Facebook and Twitter. We have become so calloused against the doomsday predictions that have fueled the religious airwaves, TV broadcasts and book sales of the … Read more about Maybe the Mayans Weren’t Wrong
The Economy, Election, Ayn Rand-Ryan-Romney, Occupy, & More from Joerg Rieger [podcast 171]
47% of you will not like this podcast... but 99% of the angels started dancing when they heard that Joerg Rieger was coming back on the podcast! Joerg's last visit has remained one of the most popular episodes & this return visit will not disappoint. Rieger and I had a monster of a … Read more about The Economy, Election, Ayn Rand-Ryan-Romney, Occupy, & More from Joerg Rieger [podcast 171]
God is in charge of this economy?
I have always been suspicious that this was true. If you follow out the way that folks talk about an interventionist God who meddles, tinkers, intervenes and interacts with ‘His’ (always his) creation ... then it has to follow that some within that stream will think that God actually runs the … Read more about God is in charge of this economy?
Zombie Categories and Globalization
I have spent that last two weeks reading and shoring up my familiarity with Creation Ex Nihilo and the Trinity respectively. As fascinating as that has been, I have to admit that am speculated out. I can only take so much speculative theology. This is part of why I am so happy to be in the field of … Read more about Zombie Categories and Globalization
The Death of the Liberals is killing us
In chapter 1 of his book Death of Liberal Class, Chris Hedges sketches both the height of the Liberal era in the 19th century and its cataclysmic implosion with the arrival of World War in the 20th. The disillusionment of human evil, aggression, and suffering deflated the optimism of innate human … Read more about The Death of the Liberals is killing us
May (the End of) Your Kingdom Come
I think that I might be done with the kingdom - not the dynamic of God’s power or God’s interaction with the world - just the word ‘kingdom’ and its imperial implications. It comes with too much baggage, it is so antiquated, and it is masculine in the way that is unhelpful.* Here are three … Read more about May (the End of) Your Kingdom Come
Occupy Theology: Marx and Whitehead
In this special episode Deacon Jeremy Fackenthal & Tripp Fuller talk Marx and Whitehead at the 2012 Emergent Village Theological Conversation for 2012. The "Inverse Theology" that is referenced is from Walter Benjamin and Theodore Adorno. Also referenced is the popular blog from last … Read more about Occupy Theology: Marx and Whitehead
Education: Where The Market Is God
Friend and Fellow Deacon (as in Wake Forest Divinity School Deacon) Aaron wrote this amazing blog post and I talked him into letting me share it. Be Ye Provoked! Over the last few years, I’ve come to the conclusion that the most important and dangerous issue we face as a society is education. … Read more about Education: Where The Market Is God