A new interreligious website recently launched called Patheos.  It’s a much needed concept that offers different religious perspectives on pressing issues.  It has a host of lenses through which to compare different religious responses to both new and age old questions.  For this week’s edition on the meaning of existence, I was asked to write [...]

Actually, Rainn Wilson has started up an interesting website called Soul Pancake that wants to “make discussions about Spirituality, Creativity, and Philosophy cool again.”  The site encourages users to “Chew on Life’s Big Questions,” the ones that “gnaw at our innards.”  My seminary professors referred to those as 3 a.m. questions…those that either kept you [...]

In their song, “Live Free,” Son Volt sings, “The season has changed; I want to see you in it; The lights that shine are caustic without you.”  As a deeply religious and spiritual person, seasons are important to me.  Because I’ve lived in various places where seasons come and go in different ways, I often [...]

Friday night, after the public forum at the Transforming Theology Conference, some participants and students stuck around for a theo-pub.  It didn’t take long for Philip Clayton and Tony Jones to get down to an intense debate over issues of emergence and emergents.  Check out the first half of the discussion posted here in the [...]

So I am at the Transforming Theology Conference where forty of the best and brightest theologians have gathered to discuss transformative thought for progressive action.  The first panel of four theologians included Harvey Cox, Delwin Brown, Joseph Bracken, and Ignacio Castuera.  They each posed seven minute thoughts on the perils that we as a society [...]

Two films that deal with religion in different ways release today.  You can laugh, cry, or scream at Bill Maher’s documentary, Religulous, one of my top spiritual films of 2008. You can also catch Angelina Jolie’s Oscar-nominated performance in Changeling.  Also of note in the latter is John Malcovich’s performance as a minister, The Rev. [...]

Richard Lindsay gives us another great review, but this time, he takes us to Broadway with the revival of Equus.  Sounds like anyone living in/near New York City or planning a vacation should definitely see this.

Last week, more reports started to circle around about the upcoming film Mary, Mother of Christ.  Most recently, the filmmakers announced that they had cast Camilla Belle (Push and 10,000 BC) to play Mary.  Word is that Peter O’Toole and Jonathan Rhys Meyers have already been cast and that the filmmakers hope to add both [...]

After you’ve all finished stuffing yourself with turkey and football, head on over to Homebrewed Christianity to listen to their newest podcast featuring yours truly.  A couple of weeks ago, Chad Crawford and I got together to discuss all things religion and film.  Tripp Fuller put together the intro.  It’s a good dessert to wrap [...]

Our friends Tripp Fuller and Chad Crawford have a new podcast up over at Homebrewed Christianity featuring Phyllis Tickle and a capsule review of W. by yours truly.  Follow the link after the jump.