On Teaching Comedy Badly
I’ll admit right out front that my problem might have more to do with my inadequacies than with the nature of literary genre, but try as I might, I keep…
What Are You Seeking?: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 19 January 2014
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 19 January 2014 (Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A) Isaiah 49:1-7 • Psalm 40:1-11 • 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 • John 1:29-42 First of all, so that nobody has to say…
Nietzsche, Friend of Thinking Christians
As I said on our “God Is Dead?” podcast episode, I encountered Nietzsche via his famous sound-bite as a high school student. I had no idea that his literary output…
Late to the Party: A Response to Bo Sanders
Doing Theology in the 21st Century. or why Aquinas is a footnote Bo Sanders is a friend of The Christian Humanist and a friend of mine, and if he’s ever…
The Usual Suspects, Redux: A Review of Saving Jesus, Redux for SpeakEasyBloggers
When I saw that the talking heads featured in the DVD series were Marcus Borg and Brian McLaren and Diana Butler-Bass and Matthew Fox, I already had a good idea…
BrueggeBlog 5: My Creatio ex Nihilo Copout
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy I’m going to appropriate and extend Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of a tradition here and posit that to be part of the tradition…
BrueggeBlog 4: Theological Dialectics
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy Up to a certain point, reading one book of the Bible at a time (or, sometimes, one segment of one book of…
Signs of Life: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 27 October 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 27 October 2013 (Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Joel 2:23-32 and Psalm 65 • Sirach 35:12-17 or Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22 and Psalm 84:1-7 • 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 • Luke 18:9-14 Two things boggle my mind,…
BrueggeBlog 3: The Gospel of Plurality
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy If the stories of the Biblical text are the core of the testimony (as I discussed in BrueggeBlog 2), certain questions arise:…
Becoming Israel: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 20 October 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 20 October 2013 (Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 31:27-34 and Psalm 119:97-104 • Genesis 32:22-31 and Psalm 121 • 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 • Luke 18:1-8 When a passage in the Bible leaves us…
Christian Humanist Profiles, Episode #3: Martial Arts, Positive Psychology, and Virtue Ethics
When human beings want to tell stories, we often speak tales of the warrior. Whether one reads about Saul and David, the holy warlords of ancient Israel, or about Diomedes…
BrueggeBlog 2: God-Verbs
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy My own Brueggemann revolution started with grammar: the main way that Israel articulates the core testimony about YHWH is in the form…
The Tenth: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 13 October 2013
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 13 October 2013 (Twenty-First 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 Timothy 2:8-15 • Luke 17:11-19 Sometimes Biblical passages just beg…
Christian Feminist Podcast is on Stitcher!
That’s right, listeners. The Christian Feminist Podcast is now available on Stitcher. All the cool kids are listening. Then they’re getting their phallocentric notions of “cool” subjected to radical philosophical…
BrueggeBlog 1: Back into the Biblical Theology Fray
Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy There are all sorts of good things about defending one’s dissertation. I never have to correct a student again when he addresses…