Why I am Emergent
When I’m with Emergent types, I often get asked “Why are you Episcopalian” which I have many answers (including this one I gave to Bruce Reyes-Chow) to and most respect. But when I’m with Episcopalians I often get a turned up eye and a weird look when I say I’m interested in the Emerging Church. [...]
U.S. Religion: Post-secular, More Secular, Post-christian?
In an Emergent Outliers discussion a few weeks ago the question came up as to whether the US is becoming more secular, is post-secular, post-Christian, or just post-denominational. Tough set of words to sort out. So much of what one will define the religious situation depends on one’s religious lifeworld. It is one’s own religious place [...]
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 [...]
Orthopraxadoxy
We like to dichotomize things. It makes our lives much easier when things can be easily compartmentalized and divided. But the problem with that tendency is that it creates unneeded — and often blatantly false — polarities and bifurcations. These type of constructions are endemic in the modern church and some of the more common [...]
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 [...]
Some More Caputo Resources
We’ve collected a few more resources regarding Caputo and thought we’d share them with you. Remember, tomorrow is our first meeting!
On Caputo and Church: Viens! | Curt A. Bronzan
On Caputo and Church: Deconstruction (and Difference) | Curt A. Bronzan
Not the ‘What’ of God, But How | Blake Huggins
Our Abandonment By God
I decided to take a stab at the feeds today, and the first one I read was this one.. and it knocked me on my butt.
Now, while I am still often overwhelmed by the beauty and goodness of our world, I am also, or perhaps even more often, overwhelmed by the brokenness of our world. [...]
John Caputo Audio Links
As we lead up to our first Theology Book Club meeting on Caputo’s On Religion we’ll be featuring some videos, reviews, and audio regarding Caputo and his ideas to help facilitate discussion. If you have any you’d like to recommend, please email or leave a comment!
Caputo, along with Richard Kearney, was a participant in Emergent [...]
What Would Jesus Deconstruct?
As we lead up to our first Theology Book Club meeting on Caputo’s On Religion we’ll be featuring some videos, reviews, and audio regarding Caputo and his ideas to help facilitate discussion. If you have any you’d like to recommend, please email or leave a comment!
