patheological: The Podcast for the Pastor Theologian

Five years ago the iconic Mummers Theater, also known as Stage Center, was demolished. Considered a modern architectural marvel, it served an interesting feature for the annual Oklahoma City Arts Festival for years. Then it flooded. Efforts to save the building failed. What eventually takes the now

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1. Unfollowers: An Interview with Ed Cyzewski


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


3. Reading the Bible: A Conversation with Peter Enns

Are you spiritual but not religious? Maybe you are religious but not spiritual. What do those categories even mean? Are we always going to find ourselves in an Inigo Montoya moment, “You keep using that word . . . “

Religion observers and Christian leaders have for some time

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1. Beauty May Liberate Us From the Cul-De-Sac: An Interview with Bill Walker III


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


3. Pride and Prejudice – Thoughts from the Edge

Oklahoma incarcerates more people per capita than any other State in the Union – men and women. Legislators work to reform our justice system. The gears turn slowly. Part of the issue turns on how we talk about justice.

Last year, a group of Evangelicals, some from my tribe

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1. Operating Out of a Different Narrative: God and Guns with Amy Butler and Teer Hardy


2. Beauty May Liberate Us From the Cul-De-Sac: An Interview with Bill Walker III


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

Many resist preaching, listening to preachers, that is. Preachers may be the worst. I have attended denominational meetings and watched folks get up and leave when the preaching begins. Imagine thinking mundane business to be more interesting than the preacher you may not have heard before.

Over the past

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1. A Complicated Pregnancy: A Conversation with Kyle Roberts


2. On the Other Side of the Ash Heap


3. Pledging Allegiance to People: An (Almost) Interview with George E Young Sr

A local meteorologist described the recent F-4 tornado in Alabama. We know a thing or two about tornadoes in Oklahoma. The scene of the 24-mile swath cut by the massive tornado brought back memories of what we simply refer to in our area as, The May 3rd Tornado. It

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


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


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

There is not going to be a return to things as they were. Or are. Think of it as the notion that to step into a river at the same place, does not mean you are stepping into the same water. The water in which you stepped in downstream.… Continue reading

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1. Counterfeit Forgiveness? A Conversation with Scott Curry


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


3. This Is Uz: A Conversation with Scott Curry

No matter what you have been told, there are things you may not pray away. The Apostle Paul noted that he had prayed three times for a thorn in the flesh to be removed. It wasn’t. Three times may be a euphemism for over and over and over again.… 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. A Complicated Pregnancy: A Conversation with Kyle Roberts

Business disruptors. Sports disruptors. How about Church disruptors?  The story is told of a pastor who, while preaching, noticed his son chewing gum. He is said to have stopped the sermon and instructed his son, “Paul, go spit out your gum!”

It Will Take More Than Gum

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


2. Community Witness


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

If you did not read carefully, you may have mistaken a conjunction for a noun. Spelling is key. Taking note of words and how they are used both spares of embarrassment and enlightens. 

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1. He Didn’t Know My Name: An Interview with Teer Hardy


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


3. Pastors Fail? A Conversation with Taylor Mertins

The canopy caught the wind. We slowly drifted toward the steel cable barrier that kept us a safe distance from the dam. Our anchors could not hold the 21’ pontoon boat from which we hoped to reach our limit of rainbow trout for the day.  We pulled in our … Continue reading

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1. Ruled Out of Order or, A Pusillanimous SBC Part 2


2. Will Paige Patterson Endorse Article 3 in Baltimore?


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