Theological Musings
- The Only Way to God Is God’s Way to Us
- My Unfinished Lectures on Systematic Theology (from around 2000)
- Dorothy Sayers’s Satirical Q&A on Christian Doctrine
- Pluralism & the Gospel (Lecture from around 2000)
- Opt for Mutuality: A Reflection for “Evolution Weekend”
- The Bible & Same-Sex Marriage
- Some of John Caputo’s Best Friends are Panentheists
- Preaching Panentheism
- CTS Lecture Notes on Evangelical Theology
- A Fundamentally Interactive World
- 1997 Lecture Notes on Philosophical Theology
- A Theo-Eccentric View of God and Everything Else
- Karen Armstrong’s Case for God
- Process Theism & Liberation Theologies
- Eric Reitan’s “Ethico-Religious Hope” & Process Theism
- Process Theism’s “Immanent Critique” of Martin Hagglund’s Atheism
- A Funeral Homily from a Process Perspective
- Differing Versions of One Another: The Common Source of Moral and Theistic Devotion
- On NOT Domesticating Transcendence in Process Theism
- Process Thought’s Reframing of How We Think of Absolutes
- Sallie McFague’s Metaphorical Process Theism
- An Uncontainable World: Process Thought & Process God-Talk
- Fr. Charles Allen’s Writings on Process Theology for Brent Hege’s Course on God
- Process Theism & Paul Tillich’s Panentheism
- Process Theism and Pantheism
- Monotheistic Faith
- The Resurrection of Jesus
- My 1990 Outline of Christian Faith
- My Lifelong Faith Experience
- Grace & White Fragility
- Experience, the Immeasurable, & God
- What Does the Bible Say about Itself?
- God Is Like/UNLIKE Any Other
- Beyond Our Echo Chambers?
- St. Augustine’s Pre/Postmodern Christian Theism
- Process Theism on Resurrection & Transformation in God
- What Schubert Ogden Taught Me
- The Shared Creativity Response to the Problem of Evil
- A Discussion Starter on Faith
- God: All-Enlivening, All-Sustaining, All-Embracing—Not All-Controlling
- St. Paul on the Problem of Evil
- Sex Is Divine—Act Accordingly
- Centering/Decentering Prayer
- Being-Here-and-Now: How “God” Is Like a Pronoun and Why That Matters
- Gordon Kaufman’s “Creativity” & Process Theism
- Speaking of God with Good Reason
- Process Thought’s Reframing of How We Think of Freedom & Determinism
- The Book of Jonah as Parable (A Discussion Starter for Pyre)
- Instead of Asking, “Does God exist?”…
- Keeping the Good News Good
- Gospel
- Wondering About Prayer
- Order for an Agape
- How Does Jesus Shape Your Understanding of God? (Seminar on Process Theology w/ Tripp Fuller)
- Pyre: On the Trinity
- The “Transjective”
- A Brief Commentary on the Nicene Creed
- “The God Delusion” & Panentheism
- Naming What Keeps Me Going
- Should We Stop Offering Wholeness?
- Triune God: Boundlessly Self-Othering Communion
- Jesus Follower?
- Process Theism & Deconstruction
- Process Theism & Slavoj Zizek’s Dialectical Materialism
- My Premodern/Modern/Postmodern Spiritual Practice
- Credal Meditation
- Awakening Trustfully to All That Is Involved in Being Here: One Form of Christian God-Talk
- A Prayer for Final Exams
- God in Process
- Nobody Is Anybody without Loving Another—Not Even God
- Being Here & God
- Portrayals of God in the Bible
- Why Some of Us Find God’s Reality Undeniable
- Opening to the Boundless: An Account of Contemplative Faith
- Common Worship: We ARE Christ’s Broken Body SHARING Christ’s Broken Body
- Faith Is Not Believing Without Questioning
- A Heavenly Reconsideration – a Poem by Wesley Sexton (Butler ‘16)
- Questions from a Friendly Skeptic
- Faith, Doubt and Reason
- Process Mindfulness
- Experiences of God?
- From Experience* to Process Thought to Process Theism
- The Continually Differing Inclusion of Continually Differing Selves & Others: A Philosophically Contemplative Theism
- Interactive Nondualism: Process Thought’s Reframing of the Physical/Mental Binary
- What’s the Evidence for Process Theism?
- Reading the Bible from Wherever You Are
- What About the Bible?
- Night Prayer
- The God We’re NOT Debating: Confessions of a Different Kind of Theist
- Reframing Practically Everything: Process Thought, Nature & God
- Disarming Suspicions of Evolution: One Student’s Story
- Genesis 1: An Ongoing Dialogue
- Jesus As an Historical Figure
- How I Experience the God of Jesus Christ
- Just Be There
- Why I Don’t Know How to Be Secular
- Reciting Creeds
- Interrobang
- Secular Challenges to Progressive Christians
Notes on Weekly Readings
- For October 2 (Proper 22, Year C)
- For September 25 (Proper 21, Year C)
- For September 18 (Proper 20, Year C)
- For September 11 (Proper 19, Year C)
- For September 4 (Proper 18, Year C)
- For August 28 (Proper 17, Year C)
- For August 21 (Proper 16, Year C)
- For August 14 (Proper 15, Year C)
- For August 7 (Proper 14, Year C)
- For July 31 (Proper 13, Year C)
- For July 24 (Proper 12, Year C)
- For July 17 (Proper 11, Year C)
- For July 10 (Proper 10, Year C)
- For July 3 (Proper 9, Year C)
- For June 26 (Proper 8, Year C)
- For June 19 (Proper 7, Year C)
- For June 12 (Trinity Sunday, Year C)
- For June 5 (Pentecost, Year C)
- For May 29 (Easter 7, Year C)
- For May 22 (Easter 6, Year C)
- For May 15 (Easter 5, Year C)
- For May 8 (Easter 4, Year C)
- For May 1 (Easter 3, Year C)
- For April 24 (Easter 2, Year C)
- For April 17 (Easter Day, Year C)
- For April 16, Nighttime (Easter Vigil, All Years, for the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis)
- For April 16, Daytime (Holy Saturday, All Years)
- For April 15 (Good Friday, All Years)
- For April 14 (Maundy Thursday, All Years)
- For April 10 (Palm Sunday, All Years)
- For April 3 (Lent 5, Year C)
- For March 27 (Lent 4, Year C)
- For March 20 (Lent 3, Year C)
- For March 13 (Lent 2, Year C)
- For March 6 (Lent 1, Year C)
- For March 2 (Ash Wednesday, All Years)
- For February 27 (Last Epiphany, Year C)
- For February 20 (Epiphany 7, Year C)
- For February 13 (Epiphany 6, Year C)
- For February 6 (Epiphany 5, Year C)
- For January 30 (Epiphany 4, Year C)
- For January 23 (Epiphany 3, Year C)
- For January 16 (Epiphany 2, Year C)
- For January 9 (Epiphany 1, Year C, “The Baptism of Our Lord”)
- For January 2 (The Second Sunday After Christmas, All Years)
- For December 26 (The First Sunday after Christmas, All Years)
- For December 25 (Christmas Day, All Years)
- For December 19 (Advent 4, Year C)
- For December 12 (Advent 3, Year C)
- For December 5 (Advent 2, Year C)
- For November 28 (Advent 1, Year C)
- For November 21 (Proper 29, Year B)
- For November 14 (Proper 28, Year B)
- For November 7 (Proper 27, Year B)
- For October 31 (Proper 26, Year B)
- For October 24 (Proper 25, Year B)
- For October 17 (Proper 24, Year B)
- For October 10 (Proper 23, Year B)
- For October 3 (Proper 22, Year B)
- For September 26 (Proper 21, Year B)
- For September 19 (Proper 20, Year B)
- For September 12 (Proper 19, Year B)
- For September 5 (Proper 18, Year B)
- For August 29 (Proper 17, Year B)
- For August 1, 8, 15, & 22 (Propers 13, 14, 15, & 16, Year B)
- For July 25 (Proper 12, Year B)
- For July 18 (Proper 11, Year B)
- For July 11 (Proper 10, Year B)
- For July 4 (Proper 9, Year B)
- For June 27, (Proper 8, Year B)
- For June 20 (Proper 7, Year B)
- For June 13 (Proper 6, Year B)
- For June 6 (Proper 5, Year B)
- For May 30 (Trinity Sunday, Year B)
- For May 23 (Day of Pentecost or Whitsunday, Year B)
- For May 16 (Easter 7, Year B)
- For May 13 (Feast of the Ascension, Year B)
- For May 9 (Easter 6, Year B)
- For May 2 (Easter 5, Year B)
- For April 25 (Easter 4, Year B)
- For April 18 (Easter 3, Year B)
- For April 11 (Easter 2, All Years)
- For April 3 & 4 (Easter Vigil & Easter Sunday, Year B)
- For April 3, Daytime (Holy Saturday, All Years)
- For April 2 (Good Friday, All Years)
- For April 1 (Maundy Thursday, All Years)
- For March 28 (Palm Sunday, Year B)
- For March 21, (Lent 5, Year B)
- For March 14 (Lent 4, Year B)
- For March 7 (Lent 3, Year B)
- For February 28 (Lent 2, Year B)
- For February 21 (Lent 1, Year B)
- For February 17 (Ash Wednesday, All Years)
- For February 14 (Last Epiphany, Transfiguration Sunday, Year B)
- For February 7 (Epiphany 5, Year B)
- For January 31 (Epiphany 4, Year B)
- For January 24, (Epiphany 3, Year B)
- For January 17 (Epiphany 2, Year B)
- For January 10 (Epiphany 1, Year B, “The Baptism of Our Lord”)
- For January 6 (Feast of the Epiphany, All Years)
- For January 3 (The Second Sunday After Christmas, All Years)
- For December 25 & 27 (Christmas Day & the Sunday Following)
- For December 20 (Advent 4, Year B)
- For December 13 (Advent 3, Year B)
- For December 6 (Advent 2, Year B)
- For November 29 (Advent 1, Year B)
- For November 22 (Feast of “Christ the King,” Year A)
- For November 15 (Proper 28, Year A)
- For November 8 (Proper 27, Year A)
- For November 1 (All Saints’ Day, Year A)
- For October 25 (Proper 25, Year A)
- For October 18 (Feast of St. Luke, All Years)
- For October 18 (Proper 24, Year A)
- For October 11 (Proper 23, Year A)
- For October 4 (Proper 22, Year A)
- For September 27 (Proper 21, Year A)
- For September 20 (Proper 20, Year A)
- For September 13 (Proper 19, Year A)
- For September 6 (Proper 18, Year A)
- For August 30 (Proper 17, Year A)
- For August 23 (Proper 16, Year A)
- For August 16 (Proper 15, Year A)
- For August 9 (Proper 14, Year A)
- For August 2 (Proper 13, Year A)
- For July 26 (Proper 12, Year A)
- For July 19 (Proper 11, Year A)
- For July 12 (Proper 10, Year A)
- For July 5 (Proper 9, Year A)
- For June 28 (Proper 8, Year A)
- For June 21 (Proper 7, Year A)
- For June 14 (Proper 6, Year A)
- For June 7 (Trinity Sunday, Year A)
- For Trinity Sunday, Year A, Some Other Time
- For May 31 (Pentecost or Whitsunday, Year A)
- For May 24 (Easter 7, Year A)
- For May 21 (Ascension Day, Year A)
- For May 17 (Easter 6, Year A)
- For May 10 (Easter 5, Year A)
- For May 3 (Easter 4, Year A)
- For April 26 (Easter 3, Year A)
- For April 19 (Easter 2, All Years)
- For April 12 (Easter Sunday Evening, All Years)
- For April 11, Nightfall (Easter Vigil, Year A)
- For April 11, Daytime (Holy Saturday, All Years)
- For April 10 (Good Friday, All Years)
- For April 9 (Maundy Thursday, All Years)
- For April 5 (Palm Sunday, The Sunday of the Passion, All Years)
- For March 29 (Lent 5, Year A)
- For March 22 (Lent 4, Year A)
- For March 15 (Lent 3, Year A)
- For March 8 (Lent 2, Year A)
- For March 1 (Lent 1, Year A)
- For February 26 (Ash Wednesday, All Years)
- For February 23 (Last Epiphany, Transfiguration Sunday, Year A)
- For February 16 (Epiphany 6, Year A)
- For February 9 (Epiphany 5, Year A)
- For February 2 (Feast of the Presentation)
- For January 26 (Epiphany 3, Year A)
- For January 19 (Epiphany 2, Year A)
- For January 12 (Epiphany 1, Year A, “The Baptism of Our Lord”)
- For January 5 & 6 (Second Sunday after Christmas & Feast of the Epiphany, All Years)
- For December 25 & 29 (Christmas Day & the Sunday After, All Years)
- For December 22 (Advent 4, Year A)
- For December 15 (Advent 3, Year A)
- For December 8 (Advent 2, Year A)
- For December 1 (Advent 1, Year A)
- For November 24 (Proper 29, Year C)
- For November 17 (Proper 28, Year C)
- For November 10 (Proper 27, Year C)
- For November 3 (Proper 26, Year C)
- For October 27 (Proper 25, Year C)
- For October 20 (Proper 24, Year C)
- For October 13 (Proper 23, Year C)
- For October 6 (Proper 22, Year C)
- For September 29 (Proper 21, Year C)
- For September 22 (Proper 20, Year C)
- For September 15 (Proper 19, Year C)
- For September 8 (Proper 18, Year C)
- For September 1 (Proper 17, Year C)
- For August 25 (Proper 16, Year C)
- For August 18 (Proper 15, Year C)
- For August 11 (Proper 14, Year C)
- For August 4 (Proper 13, Year C)
- For July 28 (Proper 12, Year C)
- For July 21 (Proper 11, Year C)
- For July 14 (Proper 10, Year C)
- For July 7 (Proper 9, Year C)
- For June 30 (Proper 8, Year C)
- For June 23 (Proper 7, Year C)
- For June 16 (Trinity Sunday, Year C)
- For June 9 (Pentecost Sunday, Year C)
- For June 2 (Easter 7, Year C)
- For May 26 (Easter 6, Year C)
- For May 19 (Easter 5, Year C)
- For May 12 (Easter 4, Year C)
- For May 5 (Easter 3, Year C)
- For April 28 (Easter 2, Year C)
- For April 20, 21 (Easter Vigil, Easter Sunday, Year C)
- For April 19 (Good Friday, All Years)
- For April 18 (Maundy Thursday, All Years)