• 4 Minute Read On my commute home this evening I was listening to the Fundamentalists podcasts hosted by Peter Rollins in which he mentioned an event called ‘the Belfast Agreement’ or because of the day it was signed, ‘The Good Friday Agreement.’ This was an agreement signed Good Friday, April 10, 1998 that …
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We Are Going Somewhere: A Progressive Theology
• 6 Minute Read Theology can be a beautiful thing. The ideas that we hold about God shape how we view the world we live in and our places within it. It can give us hope when things begin to go dark. Theology can also be toxic. Our ideas about God can harden our hearts …
Whose Fault is This? (Jesus, Scapegoats, Good & Evil)
• 5 Minute Read I wanted to share something from a Jesus story that has come to mean a lot to me. This particular story happens like many stories of Jesus… he never seems to be looking for trouble, but how he engages with it always seems to lead to controversy. The story is …
Jonah Knew God (But Didn’t Love like God): What this Odd Prophet Teaches Us about Peacemaking
• 6 Minute Read Jonah has always been one of my favorite books in the bible. Just thinking about it brings back memories of flannel-graphs, paper pictures of x-rayed fish with a man kneeling somewhere near the lower intestine and Sunday school stories about a little man who thought he could disobey God. I …