Episodes
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My mentor preached at my ordination service. He was the third preacher to preach in the service. When he stood to preach he said,
âI am the preacher who preaches after the preacher who preached after the preacher who has already preached.â
Knowing Rick, he made that observation during ⊠Continue reading
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Sharing Your Faith Is Not A Single Format Opportunity
Those who know me know I am a talker. The corollary is that I tend to process my thinking out loud. Now you know why posts are sometimes infrequent and my podcast frequency is worse.
Can We Talk? is a ⊠Continue reading
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Episodes manquant?
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Marv Levy takes his dry humor around the globe in the comedy series The Reluctant Traveler. Levyâs travels leave him perplexed and curious. His episode-ending reflections include themes he picks up along the way. Often sounding surprised, he finds that folks living in Finland enjoy life outdoors, even ⊠Continue reading
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We deconstruct everything so why the bugaboo?
Mark Driscoll famously attacked deconstruction, or Deconstruction, with the caricature that the goal is to reduce everything to its nub so it may be dismissed. He used the schtick to strike fear in those who dared question what they had been taught, ⊠Continue reading
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Claims that the Woke Left is indoctrinating students in Oklahoma Public Schools have been a talking point of Oklahoma State School Superintendent Ryan Walters since he began his campaign. Once elected, erasing the Woke Agenda has been his ongoing mantra. My friend Greg Horton posted about the claims of ⊠Continue reading
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âIs healthcare a right or privilege?â
Maybe the question needs a better frame.
Recently I was talking with my friend Marty about healthcare, high deductibles, and treatment costs. Amidst the ongoing cultural battles occupying congressional talking points I wondered on Twitter when would our legislators take up one of ⊠Continue reading
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I tried to work in one of my favorite lines from Cold Mountain into the title.
I imagine God is weary of being called down on both sides of an argument.
Inman, Cold Mountain
Next week Messengers to our denominationsâ annual meeting may hear proposed Resolutions on Critical Race ⊠Continue reading
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Near the end of our last conversation on the subject of Critical Race Theory, Bradly Mason remarked that race is a social construct for the subordination of other human beings. His statement did not go without notice. One listener sent a series of questions. If Mason asserted that race ⊠Continue reading
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In our best Schwarzenegger voice, âWe said weâd be back!â
Sojournerâs interviewed Nathan Cartagena on teaching Critical Race Theory to Evangelicals. When asked about the different assumptions students have when taking a class on critical race theory now that CRT is such a lightning rod subject he noted,
Oh
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Pastor, do you have time to read the near 500 pages of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement?â Maybe you have time between weekly sermon preparation, pastoral responsibilities, and any administrative tasks that accompany your particular ministry setting. Try as we might to be ⊠Continue reading
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âThe just shall live by faith,â represents the Scriptural hammer of the Reformation. Five hundred years later many Evangelicals have decided they are the hammer and everything else is a nail.
Rooting out the greatest dangers to Christianity has become a favorite past time, if not as ⊠Continue reading
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One of my friends once pointed out that any time -al is added to describe a theological perspective the emphasis is on the adjective more than on talk about God. Practically time is given to explain the adjective and what often gets obscured is the god/God under consideration. Enter ⊠Continue reading
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What happened to the podcast? It would be easier just answering with, â2020.â
To provide an illustration of the unusual difficulties, it took two days and three tries to finish the conversation I had with Thomas J. Oord where we talked about his latest book, God Canât: Q & ⊠Continue reading
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Jemar Tisby, in his book The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Churchâs Complicity in Racism, offers a number of To-Dos in his chapter The Fierce Urgency of Now. One is simple: Do Something. After a bit of an absence, Patheological returns with that in mind. ⊠Continue reading
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Plenty of space in print and on-air has been given over to discussions of masculinity. What if the better question for all human beings was, âHow do we live wisely in the world?â
Seventeen years ago Mark Horne published, The Victory According to Mark: An Exposition of the Second ⊠Continue reading
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Every day we are being watched by the ghosts of history past. The hosts of Ryan and Philipâs Conversation Rules have a segment on their podcast; History Has Its Eyes On You. No matter the subject of each episode, they point up the value of knowing how it relates ⊠Continue reading
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If you are a pastor or on a church staff, there is no shortage of suggestions for what to do during the current novel coronavirus pandemic. Many pastors find themselves forced to think about live-streaming services, using Zoom or Google Meet to offer Bible Study, and Youth Pastors are ⊠Continue reading
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Over time Dietrich Bonhoeffer has become something of a Rorschach Test for Christians. That is, everyone finds something in Bonhoefferâs corpus to claim for their theological project. Jeffrey C. Pugh says not so fast. Instead of thinking that Bonhoeffer passed through phases, like early and late, one might better ⊠Continue reading
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Maps. More maps. The summer term of my last year of my M.Div. in Seminary included the course, Biblical Backgrounds. Looking back it may have been better to take that course over a normal fall or spring semester. Compressing all the material covered into a few short weeks ⊠Continue reading
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Donât blame Scott Coley. Though Scott was my last podcast guest, he had nothing to do with the long hiatus. I hope to have Scott back. He is working on a new book and if nothing else, we will hop back on the Zoom and discuss his work..
So ⊠Continue reading
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