patheological: The Podcast for the Pastor Theologian

If I had known Peter‘s birthday was Tuesday, I would have dropped this podcast then. After all, what better birthday gift for Pete than for our conversation to drop on the Interwebs!

You know he will agree.

Jesus loves me.

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1. The Rapture Betrays the Incarnation: An Interview with Jeffrey C. Pugh


2. When In Romans: A Conversation with Beverly Gaventa and Jason Micheli


3. Surviving the Bible: A Conversation with Christian Piatt

Wall calendars. Day planners. Bullet journals. Birthdays. Anniversaries. Holidays. School schedules. Fiscal years. Just some of the ways we mark time.

Bruce Hornsby lyrically wrote about marking time because “that’s just the way it is.”

If all we do is buy into the way things are, then shouldn’t we … Continue reading

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1. How We Talk About Authority and Submission Matter #AltonSterling: An Interview with Geoff Holsclaw


2. Reading Dead People, Leading Life Giving Community: An Interview with Wade Burleson


3. Making Advent Great Again #MAGA: A Conversation with Emily Hunter McGowin

Long before electronic billboards, the Internet, and mobile apps, the bumper sticker served as a means to communicate how a person saw the world. Eddie Chiles radio commentary sign-off triggered a spate of bumper stickers that exclaimed, I’m Mad Too, Eddie!

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1. Trifle Not – Thoughts from the Edge


2. From Isolation to Relationship, An Interview with Dave Miller


3. Listen to Momma When She Speaks: An Interview with Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

Who knew the sloganeering of a Presidential campaign would afford us a way to highlight the great mystery of the Incarnation? Consider it much like the Apostle Paul flipping, “Ceasar is lord,” to, “Jesus Is Lord.”

Here we are one year later and my friend Tripp, along with Mike … Continue reading

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1. The Rapture Betrays the Incarnation: An Interview with Jeffrey C. Pugh


2. Do You Believe In Magic? Or, More Sign Than Miracle


3. The Sequel? or Living the End(ing) of Mark

The Youth Minister gave a new meaning to, “throw the book at him.” Originally the phrase meant to charge someone with as many crimes as are possible. Consider it throwing all the law at someone. Maybe, that is in fact what happened. Rather than take his questions seriously, the … Continue reading

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1. Zhand, Sobrino, and Editing Isaiah


2. When In Romans: A Conversation with Beverly Gaventa and Jason Micheli


3. The Rapture Betrays the Incarnation: An Interview with Jeffrey C. Pugh

The idols we create become burdens too heavy to bear. Scott Curry references Walter Brueggemann on Isaiah 46 to point out the caricatures we create for God become the idols in our heads that let us down when suffering comes.

Suffering comes. When we least expect it. … Continue reading

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1. The Circles of Faithful Presence: An(other) Interview with David E. Fitch


2. Black Olive or Green Olive, What Color Was Jesus?: An Interview with Adam Clark


3. The Greatest Spiritual Discipline: An Interview with Philip Nation

The last sacred thing is choice–individual choice. That line in a recent Facebook Post prodded this conversation.

Even more, the conclusion of the post:

. . . and we will have mass shooting after mass shooting, and churches, temples and mosques are not exempt because no one except

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1. Blue Occupations, Black Bodies and Homelessness: An Interview with Jonathan Russell


2. Black Olive or Green Olive, What Color Was Jesus?: An Interview with Adam Clark


3. The Greatest Spiritual Discipline: An Interview with Philip Nation

Few weeks hold as many consecutive references to events or celebrations in the Christian Calendar. Reformation Day. All Saints Day. All Souls Day. Do you find the reference to all worth considering?

The history of human beings is not always about all human beings. Consider Winston Churchill’s, “History is… Continue reading

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1. Love Can’t: An Interview with Thomas J Oord


2. Black Olive or Green Olive, What Color Was Jesus?: An Interview with Adam Clark


3. The Greatest Spiritual Discipline: An Interview with Philip Nation

One could not tell by the onslaught of published books that the Preacher of Ecclesiastes dictum still holds true. There is nothing new under the sun.

So why rinse and repeat teaching Plato’s, Symposium?

Not me, of course.

That would be Gilmour.

The first … Continue reading

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1. What Does Socrates Have to do with Preaching? or, Too Nerdy for Jason Micheli


2. Love Can’t: An Interview with Thomas J Oord


3. Mr. Miyagi, Joan of Arc and God: An Interview with Eric E. Hall

Many people only know John 3:16. Explaining the importance of John’s use of the word sign requires too much work. After all, if anything we know of recent events, signs and symbols point to different things for different people. 

It should come as no surprise that many only know … Continue reading

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1. From Isolation to Relationship, An Interview with Dave Miller


2. Fleming Rutledge Had Me Chippy, I Blame Jason Micheli


3. Shame – The Big Gulp of Shut Up Juice: An Interview with Steve Austin