In case you missed it, I have a new book entitled Theological Musings Volume 1 coming out this month from Quoir Publishing. I'm looking for some people who would be willing to help me promote it in the weeks before and of the book launch on August 22, 2023. Book Promo Team details: These should …
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Author talk at Lancaster Theological Seminary
Earlier this year I did an unscripted author talk in a seminary ethics class at my Alma mater. The recording is below. In it I discuss my book Go Golden, my theological evolution and how permaculture informs my personal canon within the canon. Please share widely. Be sure to look for my forthcoming book Theological …
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On pine tar and toxic theology
July 24, 1983 Kansas City, MO Forty years ago today, I was an eleven year old boy who was obsessed with baseball, and with George Howard Brett - third basemen for my hometown KC Royals. That day as the Royals played the Yankees in the Bronx at Yankee Stadium, I was in my living room …
Wait, that’s in the Bible?!?
In this post, I would like to highlight some of the things that can be found in the Bible that fundamentalists and evangelicals often have no idea about. Pointing these things out to them often sends them into extreme mental gymnastics as they wrestle with the new information that upends their long held assumptions and …
More advanced praise for Theological Musings
Volume one of my forthcoming collection of essays will be released in August by Quoir Publishing. In his book “Theological Musings” author Dillon Cruz identifies his calling to Public Theology which he defines as “the disciplined articulation of Christian Theologies and faith praxis contributing to interdisciplinary and diverse search for a common public good.” There …
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The Fourth of July: Born of violence
I do not celebrate the fourth of July anymore and have not for many years. There are a number of reasons for my refusal to idolize a flag and the nation state where I was born. To start with, the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson and ratified by the Continental Congress on July …
The importance of the first amendment
Right wing ideologues have been trying to create the Constitution in their own image in much the same way they have created an authoritarian, hate-filled God in their image. They insist that separation of church and state is not in the Constitution as Lauren Boebert did during her reelection campaign at a speech she made …
It’s Pride Month: Let’s talk about grooming
In 2016 a high profile professional footballer was sentenced to six years in prison in England. It was a tremendous scandal because the player in question was a Premier League player who had been capped a dozen times by the English national team. Because of his talent, Adam Johnson had the world at his feet. …
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The heresy of Christian nationalism
Christian nationalists are making a lot of noise these days on social media and elsewhere about wanting to set up a Christian theocracy in the United States because they don't like things such as "wokism" or "gender ideology" which in turn is because they're pro-bigotry. Take William E. Wolfe who served as the Deputy Assistant …
Leviticus 18:22 – a primer
Leviticus is one of the books in the Jewish Torah and the Christian Old Testament. Chapter 18 of the book deals with a variety of sexual issues that the authors felt were important to Israelites in the Ancient Near East. Leviticus 18:22 is one of the "clobber passages" that Christians have often weaponized to use …
The Tattooed Theologian 