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		<title>A Lament for Liberal Protestantism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This review was previously published in Sociology of Religion, but since so few read journals, here it is on my blog, for your enjoyment. The task of resurrecting the liberal Protestant vision is getting more difficult, not less. I show why in this review of David Hollinger’s After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Driscoll on Patheos: My Request for an Apology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2017 20:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several have wondered how can I stay on Patheos, since Patheos just invited Mark Driscoll to be a blogger on the Evangelical Channel. Good question. I had hoped I’d never have to respond or talk about Driscoll again, ever. He resigned in shame from Mars Hill, hurt hundreds and even thousands of people, and now [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More Blood at the Altar of the Gun</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. James Wellman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Previously published in The Seattle Times Special to The Seattle Times IN religious circles, many of us complain that nothing is sacred anymore. Whether it’s our holy scriptures, our temples, our clergy or our symbols, most are now sidelined or commercialized. Some of us talk about our religious figures with disdain, and others suggest that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We are all Hagar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Texts for this Sermon: Genesis 16:1-16; Genesis 21:1-21. On occasion I get asked: “Why are you a Christian?” And to be truthful, it would probably benefit me at the University if I weren’t identified as a Christian. Indeed, I’ve had students tell me that they’ve been attacked for their faith in classroom settings. Christianity for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Everything Belongs and the End of Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently I’ve been thinking that in Evangelical culture in the Pacific Northwest there is a strain of a radical gospel that is post-religious, or even a-religious. It doesn’t bind people back to a doctrine, or scripture, or the ecclesia, but frees them into a radical kind of Christ-consciousness that I find myself saying, well, yes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Weak theology and the anti-gospel of American exceptionalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2017 21:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Originally published in The Immanent Frame, April 3, 2017).  http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2017/04/03/weak-theology-and-the-anti-gospel-of-american-exceptionalism/. A few years ago, I reviewed David Martin’s On Secularization. In it, Martin argued, “America is a religious country, Hebrew and philosemitic, progressive and providential, enlightened and pious, religious in its secularity, secular in its religiosity, this-worldly in its apocalyptic, Protestant in its Catholicism and offering immortality [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m Praying for Sean Hannity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2017 23:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog was inspired by Ted Koppel’s take down of Sean Hannity on TV. Koppel languidly responded to Sean’s question, “You think I’m bad for America?” By saying, “Yes, you have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.” I’m sure most of those reading this blog are progressives or liberals, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Shack of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The movie, The Shack received an 18 percent rating from the “top” critics. They say its “sappy and simple-minded,” a Christianity that is “positive, open and loving,” (as if that’s a problem), and an “idealized form of spirituality that’s inclusive, relaxed and open,” again, is this wrong? And, of course, for some it “plods,” and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bread and Breasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 04:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We go to a church near us; we can get there in five minutes. We are usually late. The preacher is Richard Dalhstrom. After retiring from ministry at my church on Bainbridge Island, I’ve taken a break from active ministry—okay, I burned out. I knew about Richard because he was one of the pastors in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Princeton Theological Statement Against American First</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An important message from my alma mater, Princeton Theological Seminary, no bastion of liberalism, but nonetheless a strong message of resistance to the corrosive effects of “American First” as an ideology that is not consistent with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For those of you who disagree, read it first, pray on it, search your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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