Modernity as Toolbox
The Guardian.uk’s Theo Hobson has an interesting piece on the Greenbelt religious festival in England, where modernity is more toolbox than threat.
I think that Greenbelt is part of a major religious trend that has not been very widely noted. A new style of liberal Christianity is slowly emerging. Because it is not a coherent movement [...]
Reforming Ecclesiology in Emerging Churches
Another podcast by the guys at Homebrewed Christianity (home of some excellent conversations and interviews) interviewing LeRon Shults who asks “Should affluent white men be ordained?”
Yeah, it’s a doozy! Might do you some good to read this article from Theology Today first, which is a bit of a launching point for the interview.
Listen here: Reforming [...]
What do creeds have to do with justice?
Peter Laarman at Religion Dispatches discusses the issue of just how important theological doctrine actually is:
I must say that I will never be comfortable around US Christians who claim to be progressive on various social issues, but who remain doctrinally rigid in respect to faith itself. Experiences teaches me that these folks will almost always [...]
Exploring Our Matrix Explores the Jesus Seminar
Prof. James McGrath of Exploring Our Matrix plumbed YouTube for some videos of biblical scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan discussing the Jesus Seminar, the Pre- and Post-Easter Jesus, and the context of Jesus.
Exploring Our Matrix | Jesus Seminar Videos
An Interview with Walter Brueggemann
John Anderson of Heset we’emet interviews Walter Brueggeman regarding his academic work on the Hebrew Bible.
“The Old Testament invites the church to a narrative reality that is open, pluralistic, and beyond all codifications. The God to whom it witnesses continues to break open our best ideologies. In worship the church needs to hear and think [...]
