July 2011

On Christian Animism

by Ric Hudgens 29 July 2011

Animism was practiced before it was “believed in”. Human beings living life immersed in a living world of “other” voices is a universal phenomenon found in every indigenous culture. By “indigenous” please understand that I mean the dominant worldview of the majority of human beings for the majority of our time on this planet. Animism [...]

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The Earth has a Big Sister

by Kathy Williams 28 July 2011

There is another planet of intelligent life sending us a steady stream of transmission. Otherworldly TV, viewable to each through the inner workings of the delicate receiver that is the whole Human brain.
Not one sided and back in time like a radio beam, they send responsive and immediate communication. They are bonded to us in [...]

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Safe

by Paul Munn 27 July 2011

He tried to ease it onto the sidewalk, but the dolly clanked loudly and scraped as it hit the concrete. Then he pushed it out into the flow of pedestrians. They stared at the bent figure, in a shabby trench coat and stocking cap pulled down over his gray hair, pushing a small, shiny safe [...]

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A Holy Queering Part Three

by Liza Minno Bloom 26 July 2011

For this month’s post, we decided to respond to people’s requests for more specific details and examples by sharing anonymous stories we solicited from people of diverse sexualities and gender identities. One of our aims was to highlight the often invisible diversity that exists in our communities and movement.
We know from the Gospel parables [...]

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Why aren’t they worried about us?

by James Hamrick 25 July 2011

GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain provided some fodder for the media with remarks that he would not appoint Muslims to his cabinet. After some further interviews he clarified that he would not discriminate against Muslims, but that he would want to make extra certain that they had their loyalties properly placed. His interview with Glenn [...]

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Iconocast Episode 34: Bob Ekblad, part one

by the Iconocast Collective 21 July 2011

In this episode Jarrod and Mark interview Bob Ekblad.
Bob Ekblad is executive director of Tierra Nueva and The People’s Seminary in Burlington, Washington. Tierra Nueva is an ecumenical ministry located in Burlington, Washington, that seeks to share the Good News of God’s liberation in Jesus Christ with migrant farmworkers, jail inmates, and Skagit Valley gang [...]

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A Twenty-Three-Hundred-Year-Old Dumb Idea Still Running Our Lives

by Sarah Ruden 20 July 2011

Is homosexuality, abortion or artificial insemination against nature?
Those who oppose gay marriage, abortion, and even artificial insemination often invoke God and nature together. The claim that God endorses certain political opinions seems dicey to most people, but the exhortation to follow nature commands pretty broad respect. It’s worth having a look at where the exhortation [...]

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Our Tortured King

by Isaac Villegas 19 July 2011

Hanging on the cross, tortured, nearing death, a convicted rebel asks Jesus to remember him: Don’t forget me, he says.
While we are usually very good at running away from death, the 23rd chapter from Luke’s Gospel won’t let us look the other way. As we wrestle with this story from the Bible, our attention must [...]

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A God of Peace or a god of Violence?

by John D. Rich, Jr. 15 July 2011

In the late 11th century, Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote a book which specified the doctrine of satisfactionary atonement. Most of us are familiar with this story. God looked down on sinful humanity and wished at the bottom of his heart to allow us to be with him.1 However, because god is just, he [...]

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The Temple Metaphor in the Gospel of John and the Replacement of Worship

by Joseph Collard 14 July 2011

One day, as I was researching the temple metaphor in the Gospel of John, I happened to stumble upon Vernard Eller’s “On the Risks and Dangers of WORSHIP” which entailed how worship today is not what God wants. In it, he states, “the WORSHIP we find enjoyable, we assume GOD must find enjoyable as well. [...]

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