Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life. By Ed Cyzewski 233 pp. NavPress. $14.99. I have to admit that I enjoyed reading an optimistic book, even one whose optimism…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 10 October 2010 (20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 and Psalm 66:1-12 • 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c and Psalm 111 • 2…

An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible By Walter Brueggemann. 212 pp. Fortress Press. $22.00. I first encountered Walter Brueggemann’s project as a senior at Milligan College, but…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 26 September 2010 (18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 and Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 • Amos 6:1a, 4-7 and Psalm 146 • 1…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 19 September 2010 (17th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 and Psalm 79:1-9 • Amos 8:4-7 and Psalm 113 • 1 Timothy 2:1-7 •…

Music this week is “Isn’t That What Friends Are For?” from Bruce Cockburn’s 1999 album Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu. General Introduction – What’s on the blog? –…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 12 September 2010 (16th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 and Psalm 14 • Exodus 32:7-14 and Psalm 51:1-10 • 1 Timothy 1:12-17…

In an effort to be more like every other blog, we’re going to start having an occasional post of links to interesting articles. Our debut installment: Why Glenn Beck isn’t…

Colors of God: Conversations about Being the Church. By Randall Mark Peters, Dave Phillips, and Quentin Steen. 231 pp. Authentic.  $15. Three years have passed now since I stopped posting…

This week’s music is the 1982 Daniel Amos classic “The Double,” one of the few songs I know about Platonism. It’s crazy out of print (and just crazy), so it…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 5 September 2010 (15th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 18:1-11 and Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 • Deuteronomy 30:15-20 and Psalm 1 • Philemon 1-21 •…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 29 August 2010 (14th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 2:4-13 and Psalm 81:1, 10-16 • Sirach 10:12-18 or Proverbs 25:6-7 and Psalm 112 •…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 22 August 2010 (13 th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 1:4-10 and Psalm 71:1-6 • Isaiah 58:9b-14 and Psalm 103:1-8 • Hebrews 12:18-29 •…

Thus far in this series, I haven’t really discussed any theologian who might be rightly considered an existentialist, as opposed to an influence or proto-existentialist. (The exception is Karl Barth,…

I grew up at the tail-end of the Evangelical Apologetics Explosion. Somewhat arbitrarily, I’m selecting as the apex of that movement the year 1999. (I use that date because of…