Post Pastor, Part I
i’m a post-Christian, and i’m a post-pastor. i teach and write about Post-Modern culture, theologies, worldviews, and religious models. there’s no way to understand what […]
spirituality
Kill Your Heroes
“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” – Zen Master Linji, founder of the Rinzai sect when we are children, we are […]
It Wasn’t Like That Other Thing I Thought It Was Going To Be Like
In my early 30s, I had been teaching english in colleges for a decade and had graded about 10,000 papers and though i adored teaching, […]
Is Your Santa Necktie Going To Hurt Me
Last Sunday I wore a Christmas tie to church. For fun. It was December 11 and cool outside. I wore a white shirt, which […]
Prodigals, Part II: So That Happened
(This is a continuation from Prodigals, Part I: I’ll Take Mine Now, a riff on the story of the two sons that Jesus tells. FYI […]
Prodigals, Part I: I’ll Take Mine Now
I talked at JIFC recently about the story that everyone calls the “Prodigal Son” story. We changed the gender to female, to hear the story […]
