patheological: The Podcast for the Pastor Theologian

“Is healthcare a right or privilege?”

Maybe the question needs a better frame.

Recently I was talking with my friend Marty about healthcare, high deductibles, and treatment costs. Amidst the ongoing cultural battles occupying congressional talking points I wondered on Twitter when would our legislators take up one of … Continue reading

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1. Anger Can’t Live Alone: A Conversation with Scott Curry


2. Marking Time: A Conversation with Kenneth Tanner


3. Counterfeit Forgiveness? A Conversation with Scott Curry

I tried to work in one of my favorite lines from Cold Mountain into the title.

I imagine God is weary of being called down on both sides of an argument.

Inman, Cold Mountain

Next week Messengers to our denominations’ annual meeting may hear proposed Resolutions on Critical Race … Continue reading

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1. When the Law Does Not Deliver: A Conversation with Bradly Mason


2. What Happened to the Podcast?!


3. Missional Theology – Not Just An Adjective: A Conversation with John Franke

Near the end of our last conversation on the subject of Critical Race Theory, Bradly Mason remarked that race is a social construct for the subordination of other human beings. His statement did not go without notice. One listener sent a series of questions. If Mason asserted that race … Continue reading

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1. When the Law Does Not Deliver: A Conversation with Bradly Mason


2. The Dangers of Mediating Ideas: A Conversation with Bradly Mason


3. Anger Can’t Live Alone: A Conversation with Scott Curry

In our best Schwarzenegger voice, “We said we’d be back!”

Sojourner’s interviewed Nathan Cartagena on teaching Critical Race Theory to Evangelicals. When asked about the different assumptions students have when taking a class on critical race theory now that CRT is such a lightning rod subject he noted,

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1. Trolling Christian Twitter for Nuggets of Gold


2. The Dangers of Mediating Ideas: A Conversation with Bradly Mason


3. Not Just a Nerdy Endeavor: A Conversation with Eric Hall and Nathan Gilmour

Pastor, do you have time to read the near 500 pages of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement?” Maybe you have time between weekly sermon preparation, pastoral responsibilities, and any administrative tasks that accompany your particular ministry setting. Try as we might to be … Continue reading

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


2. Intersecting Jon Stewart Without Derailing the Subject: An Interview with Natalie Burris


3. Man-Crushing Tuesday or, When Jason Micheli and Teer Hardy Flip the Script on Me

“The just shall live by faith,” represents the Scriptural hammer of the Reformation. Five hundred years later many Evangelicals have decided they are the hammer and everything else is a nail.

Rooting out the greatest dangers to Christianity has become a favorite past time, if not as … Continue reading

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1. Anger Can’t Live Alone: A Conversation with Scott Curry


2. Counterfeit Forgiveness? A Conversation with Scott Curry


3. Living in Sin: A Conversation with Jason Micheli

One of my friends once pointed out that any time -al is added to describe a theological perspective the emphasis is on the adjective more than on talk about God. Practically time is given to explain the adjective and what often gets obscured is the god/God under consideration. Enter … Continue reading

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


2. Counterfeit Forgiveness? A Conversation with Scott Curry


3. Resident Exile: A Conversation with Bill Borror

What happened to the podcast? It would be easier just answering with, “2020.”

To provide an illustration of the unusual difficulties, it took two days and three tries to finish the conversation I had with Thomas J. Oord where we talked about his latest book, God Can’t: Q & … Continue reading

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1. Who Said God Can’t?


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


3. Come Sunday: A Conversation with the Reverend Carlton Pearson

Jemar Tisby, in his book The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, offers a number of To-Dos in his chapter The Fierce Urgency of Now. One is simple: Do Something. After a bit of an absence, Patheological returns with that in mind. … Continue reading

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1. Micheal Gerson on Evangelicals Provokes David French: A Conversation with Greg Horton


2. Life In Review or, A Pastor Moves Forward by Looking Back: A Conversation with Scott Scrivner


3. On the Other Side of the Ash Heap

Plenty of space in print and on-air has been given over to discussions of masculinity. What if the better question for all human beings was, “How do we live wisely in the world?”

Seventeen years ago Mark Horne published, The Victory According to Mark: An Exposition of the Second … Continue reading

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1. Micheal Gerson on Evangelicals Provokes David French: A Conversation with Greg Horton


2. Intersecting Jon Stewart Without Derailing the Subject: An Interview with Natalie Burris


3. Anger Can’t Live Alone: A Conversation with Scott Curry