Tony Jones

  • Not the Sacraments, But the Sacramental

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    A Fad That emerging church stuff is just a fad. the young priest said to me. This was right after I told him I had just come back from a conference. It was 2010 and a group of emergence Episcopalians sponsored a church planting conference called Episcopal Village. It was a clear nod to Emergent Village.…

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  • I’m Reevaluating the Cross

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    After listening to Tony Jones speak about his new book, Did God Kill Jesus on Homebrewed Christianity, I found myself being pushed into new territory in my faith. Partly because I probably am one of those progressive Christians who wants to sanitize the faith and take the blood out of it. I think there’s more…

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  • About Abuse: or why Tony Jones is not Mark Driscoll

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    It began with a post. A simple post on a little blog in the Emergence Christian blogosphere. A comment and then another. A scandal in the making about a public figure. Lots of he-said-she-said. But it snowballed. He-said-she-said was being transformed in the public consciousness into he-did-she-did. Without regard to context, the claims, the suggestion…

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  • Check out the new #progGOD site

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    Thanks to Patheos, a major religion website, all of the submissions to Tony Jones’ #progGOD challenge have been placed in one spot. And I’m in there! Check it out here. You can find my submission about two-thirds of the way down on the right. Here is Tony’s announcement of the new webpage. What is #progGOD? A short while…

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  • Talking GOD: the Tony Jones Challenge

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    [Tony Jones recently challenged progressive theo-bloggers to talk about GOD. You can find the rules here and check out the follow-up post. The exercise has so far been fruitful for me, as I’ve written a couple of posts that will go up in the next few days about two aspects of GOD: GOD as the…

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