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Recent Blog Posts
- "The Weirdness of the Wiredness"
Larry Gilman on 02/28 - "Valentine's Day Musings"
Jasmine Wilson on 02/14 - "Highlights from the J Series"
Jasmine Wilson on 01/28 - "Friend of the Opposing Views"
Jennifer Grosser on 01/22 - "Tempting Science Fallacies 2: Winging It"
Larry Gilman on 01/18 - "Calvin College hosts January Series"
Jasmine Wilson on 01/12 - "Tempting Science Fallacies 1: Seeing Is Believing"
Larry Gilman on 01/10 - "What People Believe About What People Believe: The 2009 Harris Poll"
Larry Gilman on 01/01 - "New TOJ Book - God Is Dead And I Don't Feel So Good Myself"
Chris Keller et al. on 12/22 - "More Lessons About GOD from My DOG"
Jennifer Grosser on 12/02
Britney Spears and the Downward Arc of Empire: An Interview with Eugene McCarraher
bradey says ::
Aligning the other view with Castro and claiming that it only considers facts as irrelevant or opportunistically or as never grounded in reality? Wow Strabes, you are seriously stretching things and starting to sound really silly in these blatant mis . . .READ MORE >
Three Questions on Modern Atheism: An Interview with John Milbank
bradey says ::
You comment greast..READ MORE >
An Interview with Stanley Hauerwas
bradey says ::
Stanley Hauerwas: It could, it could. I have nothing against that. You know I’m accused of being a sectarian fideistic tribalist calling Christians away from involvement in government. No! I just want them to be there as Christians.READ MORE >
Between Sojourners and the Simple Way? Rethinking Radical, Evangelical Politics in ’08 with John Howard Yoder
bradey says ::
It is fascinating to see how consistent Yoder's thought is in works that are literally decades apart ..READ MORE >
What is Wrong with Capitalism? The Problem with the Problem with Capitalism
bradey says ::
I do not see much in your response with which I feel any special urge to take issue. Your advocacy for the primacy of the internal critique makes some sense given the way you have identified your audience as “those outside theology.” Whereas my essay . . .READ MORE >
Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?
NikA says ::
Thanks for reading! There is an updated/revised version of this article in Brad Jersak's book Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hell, Hope, and the New Jerusalem (Wipf and Stock, 2009)READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
Sorry for posting this twice - I stuck it in the wrong place above the first time. drhodes, of course that is a classic text which "all along belonging" folks turn to. As do Univeralists. I'm certainly not suggesting that you are a Universalist . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
drhodes, of course that is a classic text which "all along belonging" folks turn to. As do Univeralists. I'm certainly not suggesting that you are a Universalist, for I don't know that you are. And many (most?) of the "all along" crowd would . . .READ MORE >
Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?
Phule77 says ::
Hrm. I wish that there was an edit function, you do deal with some of this in footnote 32.READ MORE >
Hell: The Nemesis of Hope?
Phule77 says ::
Hi. I'm not sure if you're aware, but this article was referenced in the footnotes of Brian McLaren's "A New Kind of Christianity" (footnote 1, chapter 10). So this page is likely to start getting traffic after nearly a year. A number of issu . . .READ MORE >
Does Science Cause Atheism?
natewoodwardmusic says ::
Larry, I always appreciate your writing. I'm completely on board with you. As someone who has relationships with Christians more conservatively oriented (and more suspicious of science), I would wish you would refrain from statements like your . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
drhodes says ::
jking, you might do well to notice that the paragraph in which the sentence fragment you cite below appears begins by saying "For God so loved the world..." I would think that this seems to imply something quite akin to all-belonging as an active p . . .READ MORE >
Highlights from the J Series
gilman says ::
Very thoughtful, and I will try to listen to the Archbishop. Right here I'm just putting in a shameless plug for one of the most beautiful and unusual of groups trying to create understanding between Israelis and Palestinians: "Combatants for Peac . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
ByGrace says ::
Interesting article, Jon. But challenging the historic biblical understanding of hell may be getting a bit far afield from the original discussion, unless you assume that the "gospel of all along belonging" means that you are a Universalist by vir . . .READ MORE >
Young Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
jstanley says ::
I've been enjoying this conversation very much but feel that it could use some 'opening up' so that it doesn't trail off into ad homnem argumentation (which really isn't argumentation at all). One way to do this is by drawing in another text tha . . .READ MORE >