The quadrennial Olympic celebration of athletic prowess is well underway in Paris, but one of the biggest talking points has not been about the amazing feats in the world of sport, but a misunderstood interpretation of the Olympic Opening Ceremony. For most people, this was nothing more than an artistic display paying homage to the …
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The God Squad Pod is here
As a result of all of the positive feedback from the God Squad panel on Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang on SiriusXM Progress, and the encouragement from John and his producer Chris Hauselt, the God Squad has created and now released into the wild, the God Squad Pod. In our first episode, in honor …
So what.
It's Pride month and that means that the conservative Christians are up in arms once again because the LGBTQ+ community has the temerity to not only exist, but to also say that they deserve the same rights, liberties, and protection from discrimination as everyone else. Some fundamentalist type Christians are bearing false witness by claiming …
“You’re not a theologian…”
Something that happens a lot on social media is that someone will respond to something I have posted with a variant of "You're not a theologian!" Generally this is because I have made a theological claim that contradicts a conservative Christians theological assumptions and beliefs, such as "being LGBTQIA is neither a sin nor a …
Mary started it: An Advent reflection
"Why are you making Jesus political?" "The social gospel proponents don't care about individual salvation, and that's what Jesus was all about." Interacting online is something that I do as a public theologian and I often see questions and statements like those above while perusing the internet. A major, if not THE major, theme of …
Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus: An Advent reflection
When it comes to perusing Biblical scripture, genealogies hardly make for scintillating reading, but that's what we tucked into last Sunday night at Ember Faith Community in Lancaster, PA. To the uninitiated, genealogies can come across as tedious lists of difficult to pronounce names that at first glance do not hold any real theological importance. …
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The Tattooed Theologian 