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A New Year’s Blessing

The "New Year’s Letter From the Pastor Seeking Your Input On Faith Formation"

100 Books In Five Years

Staffing The Fayetteville Cold Weather Shelter December 22nd, 2022

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Reading Three Books By University Of Arkansas Faculty Who Also Happen To Be Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Parishioners

Ten Best Albums 2022

A Guidebook To Progressive Church

Testimonials of how church has changed

Christian Atheism and Anarchism

Why I Wish Churches Didn't Need To Start Non-Profits

Can God Speak?

The Future Of The Church

The Progressive Church And Neurodiversity

Is Forgiveness Possible? ~or~ Is It Struggle All The Way Down?

Sin, Solidarity And The Progressive Church

A Detour Into Demythologization (especially neoliberalism) With Ernst Käsemann and Bruce Rogers-Vaughn

Being Ecumenical And Interfaith While Remaining Committed To Trinitarian Theology

Thoughts And Prayers

A Christian Case Against Prayer At Public Meetings

The Anxiety Of Christian Mission/Evangelism

Is Discipleship Cringy?

Progressive Church As Exemplified In Two Months Of "Short" Posts

Queering Christianity

Being Human

"Pastor"

What, To A Progressive, Is Worship?

So You're Thinking About Joining A Progressive Church...

Why I Am (Trying) Not (To Be) A Liberal

What Topics Do You Want To See In A Guidebook To Progressive Church?

The Heresy of Respectability

The Progressive Commitment To Mutual Aid

A Progressive Christian Account Of Critical Race Theory

Progressive Christians In Daily Life

Freidigkeit

If Jesus Was Just A Really Great Guy, Why Do We Worship Him?

A Sermon On the Mount Vs. Nicene Creed Throw Down

How Sacred Are Sacred Texts?

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Why A Tarot Card Table At Church At A Queer-Friendly Halloween Party Is the Most Christian Thing Ever

Salvation and Control

Why Do We Need A Guide To/For Progressive Church?

NaNoWriMo

A Reformation Free-For-All

Flash Poll: Reformation

The Inherent Nihilism of "Christian Nationalism"

Everything I Learned As A Pastor Surviving A Church Split

Traveling With The Marshallese To DC For The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum

Theological Theses (41)

Angela Denker

The Governor Visits Canopy NWA

Barriers to weekly worship attendance

Worship Is Worth Practicing

Embodied Wednesday Worship

Distances Traveled To Meet At "The One Table"

Progressive Youth Ministry Has Left The Building

Bringing The State To Church

Finding church after religious trauma

One Platform To Rule Them All

A Beginner's Guide to the Marshall Islands Compact

How the mighty have fallen!

Don't Go To Church For Yourself

An Update About Lutheran Confessions

Make A Significant (as large as you can manage) Financial Donation To Your Local Progressive Church

The Great Reshuffle

Liberating Church

Talking To People At Your Church You Don't Know

The Thursday Round-Up

Revolutionizing The Parish Meeting

We Don't Talk About That

On Volunteering

Sabbaticals Are Not For the Feint of Heart

Alan Ecclestone, Revolutionary Priest

Meta Iowa State Fair

A Pastoral Letter To My Little Church

A Note On Pastoring

The Age of Anxiety

The first Lutheran confessions poll

What if you don't need therapy because it's the system that's broken not you?

How To Read Books

On Being the Church For Those Who Don't Come

Halting Climate Change

Mohsin Hamid's Idea | Reading From Back To Front Historically Speaking

What We Are Doing When We Are (Not) Reading the Bible

Pastor | Scholar | Activist

Worshipping In A Language Not Your Own

A Glimpse Into Daily Life

To sit quietly and see one's self pass by!

How Can I Help?

Where Did Lutheran Theology Go?

A Requiem for the 20th Century Church

Ichabod

Lutheran Confessions

The Roll Of Sanctuary Churches After The End Of Roe

If You Like A Church's Programs, Then Give To Their General Fund

This Is My Country

I Like My Religion The Way I Like My Labor: Organized!

The Pain Of Pastoring

World Refugee Day

A Sermon for Juneteenth

Open-Source Pastor: Church In Web 3.0

Be the Glitter

The Rise And Fall (and fall and fall) of Rudy Giuliani

What is it like post-pandemic for mid-sized churches?

Part of the Kingdom Vol II

A Simple Case For the Trinity

Why I Am Such A Political Pastor

Sunday school during the pandemic and beyond

Best Albums Of 2022 (So Far)

I wish I didn't feel compelled to write this

Soul-Searching: On Coming Down The Mountain

Welcome And Thank You To All Our New Subscribers!

Open-Source Pastor: What Happens When You Skip Your Sabbaticals

Thoughts, Prayers, Tragedy, Rage, Gun Sense and Policy Change

The Pastor Writes Down His Own Deconstruction

Podcast: Chris Goering and Meg Grizzle On CRT and Christianity

Why Are We So Silent? Great Replacement Theory And The Church

From Wandavision To The Mandalorian

Podcast: Travis Norvell Bikes To Church

Indulgences

Podcast: Tom Gaulke On Unpromising Hope

Small is good, small is all (The large is a reflection of the small)

When You Ask The Pastor "How Are You?"

You Shall Not Condemn: A Story of Faith and Advocacy on Death Row by Jennifer McBride

You're Running For County Judge? Are You A Lawyer?

Gender Essentialism As Dysphoric Heresy

Did You Know You Were Under Surveillance?

Autism (and Neurodiversity) In the Church

It's Not Hard To Go To Church--What's Hard Is Loving Your Neighbor

The Suffering Of Jesus Was Meaningless

On Moravian Trombone Choirs

Maundy Thursday Sermon

Yes I Believe In The Literal Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Churches As Overlooked Third Places

Palm Sunday In An Age Of Distraction

There Are Deacons Among Us!

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Gospel And Salvation All In One Place

On the Benefits of Anarcho-Commonism

Why Lutherans Fight Over Sin And Social Justice

The History of Progressive Lutheranism In 25 Minutes

Podcast On "Being Lutheran" Drops Tomorrow

George W. Bush Jr., Vladimir Putin, and War Crimes

Applying Occam's Razor To Revelation

This Here Flesh

The Heresy of "Respectability"

I'm A Progressive And I'm Also Spiritual... Now What?

Get the Substack App To More Seamlessly Read All the Things

A Declaration on the "Russian World" (Russki Mir) Teaching

The Mission of the Church Is Not Insatiable Growth

On NOT Reading the Bible

God as She

Holding the Bible Lightly

There Are No Laity

Creation and New Creation

What We Have Meant By Resurrection

Everyone Has Their One Thing

The Wages of Sin Is Death

Religious Diversity and the Ukraine

Healing Haunted Histories

At the Ukrainian-Slovak Border

Preaching the History of Redemption Accomplishes It

The One Panacea For Reversing Church Decline

How My Mind Has Changed About Social Media

Why Christians Leave Churches That Shed Their Middle Class Accoutrements

Ridley Scott's Raised By Wolves

What is preaching for?

"We" Talk About "Baptism"

An Invitation To Lent

Made, Known, Loved: Developing LGBTQ-Inclusive Youth Ministry

Hope Without Promise?

On Reading the Whole Hebrew Scriptures In Midlife

Passive Righteousness, Total Depravity And Other Weird Doctrines

A Quick Note On How All The Things Works

Let's Talk About Syncretism

Mutual Aid, Marshallese and “Mission”

The Sword and the Shield

The Week The ELCA Became Waldenbooks

The Best I Can Do When Putin Wants To Go To War

The Growth of the Mainline

Reimagining and Mediating a Progressive Christian South

A Study Of Baptism In Three Conversations

The Church is the Presence of the Poor, Not Butts In Pews

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