patheological: The Podcast for the Pastor Theologian

Blake Oakley arrived in Los Angeles today. He is on the other side of the Country from where he usually walks, often barefoot.

Many who know Blake would not be surprised that he enjoys walking barefoot. They have seen him do so before. But, when he left Eden, North … Continue reading

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1. Poverty, American Christianity, and The Church, An Interview with Ryan Abernathy


2. Zhand, Sobrino, and Editing Isaiah


3. Goliath, David, and South Carolina

When we say we forgive, do we mean we are forgiving a person or forgiving something a person did? Jaques Derrida used this question to describe what he meant when he talked about forgiving the unforgettable. He was speaking in post-Apartheid South Africa.

Thirty years ago … Continue reading

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1. Don’t Blame Musburger


2. Pariah, Corporatist News, and Literacy, An Interview with Marty Duren


3. Poverty, American Christianity, and The Church, An Interview with Ryan Abernathy

“A cloistered journey impoverishes your own soul,” asserts Philip Nation. Christian spiritual formation may best be practiced in community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s little book, Life Together, became an immediate favorite. One of the compelling thoughts centered on his own experience entering a community with his own ideas as to … Continue reading

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


2. The Color of Your Eyes – Thoughts from the Edge


3. Zhand, Sobrino, and Editing Isaiah

Summer cedar pollen may be toxic to your sinuses, at least here in Oklahoma. The condition is complicated by the south wind on which the pollen rides from Texas. Let’s leave the Texas jokes aside.

Once the pollen takes up space in the sinus cavity it may be a … Continue reading

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1. Zhand, Sobrino, and Editing Isaiah


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


3. Fear Your Own Hard Heart: An Interview with Alan Cross

What keeps you up at night? #AltonSterling’s death kept Geoff Holsclaw up Tuesday night. It made him mad. I imagine he is still mad this morning when he learned of #PhilandoCastle.

Yesterday while drinking coffee I read a piece by Geoff Holsclaw, Subordination and #Altonsterling. After a brief … Continue reading

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


2. Community Witness


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

There once were churches. Then Denominational Churches. Mainline Churches. Traditional Churches. Evangelical Churches. House Churches. After that Seeker-Sensitive Churches. Traditional Churches. Mainline Churches. Seeker-Friendly Churches. Purpose-Driven Churches. Emerging Churches. Missional Churches. Gospel-Centered Churches.

If Christians can’t make sense of these large groups and their subsets, what hope have we … Continue reading

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1. Mentors- Get Some: 1 of 20 Looking Back, Looking Ahead Part 2


2. Legitimizing Power, The Poor, and Jesus


3. Diagnosing the Current Normal of the Church: An Interview with Tom Ingram

Our current election cycle leaves me prepared to invoke Inigo Montoya. “Political. Pastor, you keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.”

Many of us have heard it is not a good idea to mix politics and religion. … Continue reading

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1. Not Just Tornadoes and Drought – Earthquakes Too


2. Zhand, Sobrino, and Editing Isaiah


3. An Uneasy Agent of the State: Part 3 – Pastor as Prophet

I am no Rachel Held Evans. My blog/website does not garner near her number of visits. There is no book to my credit. Interviewers do not line up. But, I am like Rachel Held Evans.

Like Rachel, I couldn’t put Richard Beck’s new book down. When my copy arrived … Continue reading

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


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


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

Today marks the 95th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riot. A recent article at Smithsonian.com highlighted the recovery of an eyewitness account of the events. Clearly the event was not a riot.

Maybe worse than assigning the event the wrong category is the lack of reference to the event … Continue reading

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


2. Community Witness


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

One of these days I will interview my daughters for the pathological podcast. What would garner more listens than to hear two PK’s talk about life in the fishbowl?

The risk in such a venture would be overexposure. Think about it. Some of my friends would learn more about … Continue reading

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


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


3. Doing Without In A Culture of More or, A Mashup of Sacks, Micheli, Kriz, and Rohr