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Category: Theology After Google

  • Something New with Theology and Tech!

    So I’ve been a geek for a long time.  I don’t need to water it down.  If it walks like a duck & quacks like a duck, it’s a duck!  I walk like a geek and talk like a geek, so I must be a geek!!  I’ve been a freelance IT consultant for a number…

  • The Digital Community – Is It “All That?”

    Ok.  So I get that it took me way too long to blog after my last Theology After Google teaser.  You have my apology.  Mostly.  While you’re getting irritated with me, know that what I’m about to blog are the class notes from last week’s class.  Ok.  Get mad.  Ready, go. Now that we’re done…

  • Opportunities for Techno-Theology

    Opportunities for Techno-Theology

    When I was in my early 20s, I went to a church in Northridge that had – for the first time I’d ever seen – a projector showing song lyrics during the worship service.  I had been involved in tech for quite a while and had been involved in my local church for even longer.  Never…

  • The End of Science v. Religion? Not…

    I just got home after attending the Clayton v. Dennett debate over at CGU.  I’m still processing, and will likely want to watch the debate again.  If you missed it or need to watch it again, the place to do so is here: Here are a few thoughts I’d wish to share, and then I’d…

  • Sex: Sympathizing with the Damned

    The more I think about it, the more I think sex divides us more than it brings us together.  How’s that for counter-intuitive?! And yet it seems to be all we can talk about.  Or more accurately, it’s all we can think about as long as we don’t talk about it except that we can…

  • Challenging the TAG10 Crowd

    I’m a little disturbed at how excited I am about the Theology After Google conference that started tonight – ok, last night ’cause this is an early morning post.  The opening session was loaded with prophetic voices including Philip Clayton, John Franke, Monica Coleman, Adam Walker Cleaveland, Callid Keefe-Perry, and Spencer Burke. And there was…

  • Sending from Theology After Google

    Here are the lyrics from the sending song I wrote for the close of Theology After Google. I am humbled to have been part of such an event, and am grateful for the presenters, leaders, and those whose paths intersected with mine.  Here are the lyrics: Praise God who has created Praise God in unity…

  • A Methodist & an Atheist Walk Into a Bar…

    I’ve had some ongoing dialogue with an atheist (I’ve also heard the phrase non-theist) friend of mine.  Yesterday he posted on my Facebook page a Daily Beast article quoting Orange County Pastor Wiley Drake who appears to be calling for the deaths of Congress members – and perhaps others – who support health care reform…

  • Doubting Thomas

    Here’s the video of the Nickle Creek song.  It’s groovy. If it’s not embedded on this page, click here instead. Here’s what I wonder – and many others have too.  Why do we call him doubting?  Weren’t all the other disciples equally questionable?  How many of them ran to the tomb to greet the risen…

  • Podcast: 5th Sunday after Easter, 2010

    Here’s a conversation I had with three UMC clergy from the Cal-Pac Conference on the upcoming Lectionary scripture.  The verses can be read at the Vanderbilt Divinity Library.  Voices heard are Rev. Krista Givens, Rev. Molly Vetter, Rev. J. Dan Lewis, and me!  This is a “first-attempt” episode, so if you like it please forward a link to…