2025-03-31
2025-03-31
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- Is Jesus Big?: Weird Jesus Sayings Continued
- Skeleton at the Beauty Parlor: Weird Jesus Sayings Continued
- Weird Jesus Sayings: A Series of Investigations
- Playing Host to Our Demons: Weird Sayings Continued...
- Women Bishops Are So Passe
- Mental Health Break: "Summer Snow"
- Author Q and A for Grace Sticks
- Holy Space 3: Down By The River
- Mental Health Break: Awkward Pregnancy Photos
- Millennials More In Search of Meaning Than Money?
- God of the Gaps: Survey Finds Americans Pray More in Disasters
- Help Make One Dream a Reality—Support Independent Film Artist Amy Ball
- Face Into the Wind
- The Last of the Beguines (Another Restless Soul) Dies
- Mental Health Break—The Nunsense of Praise Music
- Grace Sticks To Release November 1—Author Proceeds Will Support The Malala Fund
- "Resurrection of the Flesh"
- Evangelicals, God Talk and Hearing Voices
- From Scarcity to Abundance: Learning to Live in God's Economy
- The Inauguration of Pope Francis...and a Church's Revival?
- Writing Your Life's One-Sentence Summary
- A Child's Prayer of Lament
- "Openness to Grace," a.k.a. "The Suspension of Disbelief"?
- An Advent GPS System for Restless Souls
- Sunday Silliness: Louis CK as Abe Lincoln
- Remembering the Driftwood Artist
- Visio Divina: Meditation 2 (Ephesians 3)
- Jesus the Vine: Jesus Epithets Continued
- Visio Divina: Advent Meditation 3 (Hosea 6)
- Visio Divina (The Visual Word): Advent Meditation 8
- Jesus on the Mount of Olives: Station 1
- Faith When the GPS Breaks
- "Free Pizza, Free Eternal Life" and "God's Quarterback"
- FSS Reader Poll, Mid-Week Miscellany
- The Easter Grouch Speaks
- Bruce Springsteen as Preacher and Prophet
- "Earth Day" a.k.a. "Easter"?
- "The Stewardship of Pain"
- "What Is a Third Place?"
- The World of Biblical Literalism: Men With Short Hair and Women Without Jewelry or Leadership Skills
- "A Very Brief History of Eternity"
- Join "Fellowship of Saints and Sinners" on Facebook
- The Driftwood Artist
- The Minister and 1,000 Nudes
- "Is he the Messiah or not?": Jesus Epithets Continued...
- "Serenity Now!": Managing Anxiety
- Another Reason Why I Am On Occasion An "Agnostic Christian"...A Response to My Last Post
- Rachel Held-Evans on "Real Marriage" and Why She's Right
- Remembering Dr. King's Peacemaking Legacy
- An Agnostic Christian's Valentine's Day Prayer
- "Stubborn Love"
- Of Dating, Backgammon and Patience: A Sermon
- The Problem of Athlete's Foot
- The Importance of Form
- New and Improved "About Me," Thanks To Bigtime Blogger Michael Hyatt
- Augustine Tweets for Restless Souls
- Anger Management 101
- "The Man Who Gave the World His Number"
- Trump's Torturous Takeaway — How Waterboarding May Soon Be Back, and Why
- "E" Is for "Evaluate": REST for Restless Souls, Via the 12 Steps
- Voice of the Day: Coming Together With Others
- "3 Hurdles to Recovery-Friendly Church" — and Announcing a New Series
- A House of Sand and Fog
- Removing the Center
- Evolution in an Erlenmeyer Flask
- In Defense of Dover
- Intelligent Design vs. Alien Intervention
- Alister McGrath on Science and Religion
- Of Mice and Men
- Did Darwin Kill God?
- Songs and Speciation
- Science and the Law
- Are Creationism and Intelligent Design Movements?
- Mesopotamian Myths and "Genre Calibration"
- An Incarnational Model
- On Coming to Peace in the Family of God
- A Crash Course in Evolution
- Creating a Community to Explore the Harmony of Science and Faith
- Clouds
- Does Science Have Room For Miracles?
- Creation and Jazz Music
- Evolution and the Imago Dei
- Crochet, Coral, Mathematics, and Evolution
- Explaining BioLogos
- Sin
- Sin
- Science, Theology, and Tea Kettles
- The Mystery of the Soul
- Natural Selection: The Video Game
- No Room at the Inn?
- Following Nature's Design
- One Step at a Time
- Fire Starters
- Life
- A Tale of Two Papers
- Can God and Darwin Co-Exist?
- "Worldly Lusts," "Learned Helplessness" and the Healing Power of Imagination
- The Weakness of War (by J. Daryl Byler)
- The Rev. Wright Effect; Rice on Race (by Jim Wallis)
- Voice of the Day: Wendy M. Wright
- Voice of the Day: On Sabbath
- Sherlock Holmes Redux-- The Downey Treatment
- Remember the Alamo--- Tony Alamo
- A Christmas Present from Sade
- A Christmas Present to Nazareth-- a House from Jesus' Time
- God's Righteousness-- in 2 Corinthians
- Bono's Ten for Ten: U2 Can Help our Future
- New Year's Resolve: Jesus and Money Part One
- The Shrouded Man with Leprosy-- A New find in Jerusalem
- Transfixed--- A Sermon on Worship
- An Olive Branch to Disgruntled Anglicans, a Warning to Dissolute Rulers
- Towards a Consistent Pro-Life Ethic
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Six
- The Story of Sin--- A Dark Tale Part Four
- Signs of the Times
- The Archaeological Museum at Izmir (Smyrna)
- U.S Army Burns Bibles in Afghanistan
- Prophetable Thoughts--- James on Isaiah
- Q AND A WITH BISHOP WRIGHT ON 'JUSTIFICATION'
- Rednecking
- JEALOUSY
- The Story of Sin--- A Dark Tale Part Nine
- Mystery Highway-- a Gem from Phil and Randy
- Chronicles of Middle Earth-- Part Seven--Lift Up Your Eyes to the Hills
- Laying Down the Law, and Picking up the Gospel
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Twenty Nine
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Twenty Eight
- Prophetable Thoughts--- James on Micah
- Theological Movie Month Part Two-- The Book of Eli
- Theological Movie Month Part One-- The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
- A MODEL OF HEROD'S TEMPLE
- PARALLEL UNIVERSES?
- Mona Greasa-- The Real Da Vinci Code Secret
- MUSICAL NIRVANA
- Bart Interrupted: Part Four
- THE SOURCE OF THE SWINE FLU EPIDEMIC
- MONDAY MORNING FOLKS
- The Message of Jesus--New Orleans Baptist Forum
- FRACTURED FAIRY TALES FROM THE FARM NO. 1
- FAMOUS QUOTES FROM SPORTS STARS
- FRACTURED FAIRY TALES FROM THE FARM NO. 4
- Guns and Religion--- Enough is Quite Enough
- Wright and Witherington and Friends do the Elf Dance
- A New Year's Prayer for our Nation--- 2011
- The Return of Babylon? Can You Dig it?
- Still in Love with You--- Gino
- Nothing so Permanent as....
- Quiz Question of the Week
- Why Jesus? Savior and Sovereign
- Tron's Legacy---Perfection is Unknowable
- Top Twenty Cities in America
- Films and Albums of the Year---- 2010
- The SBL Kerfuffle---- Should Christian Scholars Participate?
- Imperium-- The Story of Cicero
- The Afterlife
- The Duke Convocation 2010-- Rob Bell
- The Duke Convocation 2010-- N.T. Wright, Part One
- Even More Finger Lickin Pickin---- Don Ross
- Lands of the Bible 2010 The Underground Churches and the Churches of Constantine
- The Immaculate 'Inception'--- a Great Psy-Fi Thriller
- Sin--- Chapter 10
- Sin--Chapter 11
- The Earliest Iconic Images of Peter and Paul?
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Thirty One
- Grains
- Lands of the Bible 2010--Laodicea and Hierapolis II
- Lands of the Bible 2010--Ephesus Part One
- Lands of the Bible 2010--- the Rock Cut Tombs in Lycia
- Yahweh or No Way: Vatican endorses Blues Brothers...and Glenn Beck: Part One
- A Prayer for Leroy
- 'We the People'--- Vanelli, Cobham, Acuna
- Are the Gospel Accounts Unreliable?
- ASBURY NAMES NEW PRESIDENT
- FROM THE CATATONIC TO THE CATASTROPHIC
- DESCARTES BONES-- CAN YOU DIG THEM?
- MARTIN VS. BARTON ON HISTORICAL CRITICISM AND THE ISSUE OF MEANING
- SERENITY
- THE NATURE OF TRUE LOVE
- TALES FROM FROSTBITE FALLS-- PART 5
- SEEKING THE IDENTITY OF JESUS-- PART ONE
- PRESIDENT ELECT TENNENT SPEAKS OUT
- TWO MEN LEAVING ON THEIR OWN TERMS-- GRAN TORINO AND THE WRESTLER
- THE PARABLE OF THE PEAR TREE
- SHOULD WE REDEFINE MARRIAGE?
- The Living Legacy-- the Soul in Paraphrase
- BLOOD VESSELS
- HOW TO MARRY A 'SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE'
- Creatures of Habit
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Money
- Food for Thought
- Chrysostom, Mother Teresa, and George Herbert on Prayer
- Walking a Fine Line
- Syriana-- Innocent until Investigated
- Men Behaving Badly-- The Sad but True Story of Lust
- Cat Avoids Cat-tastrophe--- Dials 9-1-1
- The CBS Special--- "The Mystery of Christmas"
- Hitchhiker's Guide
- Cracks in the Wall
- Jesus and Paul on Singleness,Marriage, and Divorce
- Paul--- Right on the Money
- The Virtue of Losing
- March of the Tuxedos
- The Martyrdom of the Zebedee Brothers
- On Being a Global Christian
- Mamma's Bible
- THE LAZARUS EFFECT-- PART ELEVEN
- Not to Worry-- A Guest Sermon
- Jesus in the Media: Things Go better with....Jesus and Coke?
- Heroes or Saints? Who are our Cultural Icons?
- The Redoubtable "Miss Potter"
- Global Warming and Evangelicals Part Deux
- The Constantine Novels of Paul Doherty
- The God-Gap Narrows
- Cirque d' Bible-- The Annual SBL Meeting
- Haggard Resigns in Disgrace
- Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
- PROBLEMS MULTIPLY FOR JESUS TOMB THEORY
- A Church Home for the Homeless
- Rob Bell Hits the Rock Venue Circuit
- A Prairie Home Companion-- A Eulogy to Things Dying from the Heartland
- Pirates of the Carribean II--- Yo Ho Ho....
- Ten Commandments for the Internet Age
- 'Just in Time'-- 'God Wants You Wealthy'
- Some folks will Swallow Anything!
- Literal Renderings of Texts of Contention-- 1 Tim. 2.8-15
- The Eternal Subordination of Christ and of Women
- The Age of Impatience and the Lust for Certainity
- Rising to the Occasion--- Easter Reflections
- Did Jesus Found a Dynasty--- Part 4
- The Gospel of Judas-- the NPR Discussion
- Frank Viola's Reimagining Church-- Part Three
- Joke of the Day-- Oh Those Religious Symbols
- What did Golgotha and the Tomb look like?
- The Great Troubadours and their Albums
- A Treat without a Trick on All Hallow's Eve-- the James Ossuary Rises from the Dead
- An Unbearable Ministry
- Dr. James Howell on the Divisive Issue of Abortion
- 'Appaloosa': Wild Horses Couldn't Keep Me Away
- AND NOW FOR SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT
- BW3 ON CNN ON THE GABRIEL STONE
- Jesus as the Unifier of the Bible
- Ephesos at Night
- The Freedom of God and the Free Will of Human Beings
- Guitar Heroes in Rock n' Roll Heaven
- Reeling in the Years--- My ten Favorite Live Rock Concerts
- PICTURES WORTH SEVERAL WORDS
- The Death and Resurrection of Messiah--- written in stone.
- A Pastoral Yogi-ism of the Day
- Your Quicky Tour of Biblically Relevant Empires
- 'Leatherheads'--A Barrel of Fun
- A Three D Jesus in a High Def World
- Recently Appearing on a Post Office Wall
- 'The Glory=Salvation of God'-- 'All Flesh will see it Together'
- Star of Wonder
- The Music of North Carolina
- Memo to Mr. Osteen from John Wesley
- Just in Time for All Hallow's Eve-- Ezekiel's Skeleton People Show Up
- The Truth about Cats and Dogs
- Religion in the News--- God gets Sued!!
- The Light of the World
- The New 'Answers in Genesis' New Testament-- Children's Edition
- 'Hairspray'-- Another Hare Brained Musical?
- Where's Your Bath-- Sheba?
- TOMMY THE ATHEIST'S TESTIMONY-- A TRUE TALE
- Hermeneutics-- A Guide for Perplexed Bible Readers
- Fire and Ice
- Ignorance is Bliss? Biblical Illiteracy in the West
- 'Rescue Dawn"-- or Having a Laosy Time
- The Virtual Church on the Rise
- Good News for Southern Baptists (by Brian McLaren)
- For Whites Only: Things to Consider When Entering the Race Conversation (by Sondra Shepley)
- Remember
- Traveling Mercies
- Writers write
- Providing a Safe Harbor
- The First Points of Light Award
- Familiar customs and limited means
- The promised peace
- Falling off my horse
- Communication: I don't understand it
- The Best of Times/The Worst of Times Part 1
- Caught on tape
- Real Life is Full of Laughter--a poem by S Demeree
- Meeting a need
- When I was rich
- God is forgiving--a sermon
- Learning the names of Jesus' disciples made easy
- Shallowland
- Shut the door
- AAIDD looking for editor for new publication
- Tension versus flexibility
- The Bible is true, even if I don't believe it
- The smile of a saint
- Learning to learn--Part 1
- Broken Days
- Learning to pace ourselves
- Repentance? Is it still needed?
- Changing the world
- A Savior for all people
- Coming Home
- Doing a daily
- A Thanksgiving value: Enjoying the journey
- God's Post-it Notes
- The face of encouragement
- The Problem with Herman Cain
- Tribute to a friend
- The World's Most Important Day
- A great day
- We are not born rude
- Wild Hogs and Wolf Wars
- Humor from people who minister within the disability community
- Dress shirt and tie
- David Wilkerson and you
- Stare Time
- A nickel for ten
- Gleaning from leaders--Part 3
- Gleaning from leaders--Part 2
- Mocking vs glorification
- An enduring promise
- Who's my customer?
- Turning Lemons into Lemonade Part 2
- Trucks and hard-working young men
- Where are they?
- Theme Park in the making--Noah's Ark
- TMI
- Prayer for Burundi
- Less is more
- Popeye's Lessons in Leadership
- Eliminating stress-sing a song
- Leadership: Courage to stand
- Forgiveness
- Getting tough with me
- Loving the seasons
- The Fingerprint of God
- Boat found that dates to Jesus' time
- Fact or fiction
- From a child to a mother
- Eliminating Stress--Meditation
- Eliminating Stress--Daily Exercise
- Welcome to our home
- Becoming Happier: Can Happen For Anyone!
- Becoming Happier: One Tip for Today
- Becoming Happier: Be Yourself (no exceptions!)
- Easter's Challenge to Empire (by N.T. Wright)
- Hardcore Dharma does not exist.
- Hardcore Dharma is Good Enough, Smart Enough and People Seem to Like It.
- Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Celebrity Death Culture
- Is all life created equal? In memorial to two Deep Ecology Movement leaders
- I'll Have One Order of Buddhism, Hold the Enlightenment
- Meditation for Caregivers: Stress, Fear and Lovingkindness
- JD Salinger sues JD California for Phony Sequel to Catcher in the Rye
- Mindful wedding planning part two: Ceremony reading
- Hardcore Dharma Summer Session: Give Gold, Be Merciful, Just Do it. But Not All At Once.
- Hardcore Dharma Week 10: Who Was the First Meditator, or Cave Paintings Rock
- Finding Fearlessness in Fearful Times
- You are not your khakis
- 2-D Love?
- What would Sid do? I'm insecure in my relationship...
- Obama's Cairo Speech
- North Korea Threatens US - What if they nuke us?
- Podcast: Reflections on 21st Century Dharma with Ethan Nichtern, Julia May Jonas and The Buddhist Geeks
- Monday Night Heartcore Dharma: Karma and Bodhisattvas & Ice Cream
- Dalai Lama in Memphis: Fist Bump is the New Namaste
- Committee Awards Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize for 2009: First Sitting President Since Woodrow Wilson To Win
- The ultimate truth is fearless
- Health Care Reform: An Animated Video That Breaks It Down
- Greening our amusement (parks)
- Dharma Literature: Reincarnation, Karma, and Ken Grimwood's "Replay"
- Dharma Philosophy: Emerson's "Circles"
- Followers of Thich Nhat Hanh Face Trouble in Vietnam
- Buddhism For Dummies - I Don't Think So
- Buddhism is Not A Religion Pt. 1: Buddhists on a Plane
- Buddhism is Not a Religion: The God Problem
- What do you read Hardcore Dharma? Words, words words.
- Shopping For a Spiritual Practice - Insight Meditation Retreat
- Secularizing Buddhism--Making it Accessible or Stripping the Roots?
- Black Friday, Cyber Monday 2009: What Would Jesus Buy? Heifer International?
- Buddhism is Not a Religion Part 5: Why I Sit
- The Charter for Compassion: Karen Armstrong's Vision
- Heartcore Dharma: Always (and Only) Be Cheerful
- Why We Meditate: Because Alan Grayson, Kanye West, and Joe Wilson Don't (Yet?)
- What would Sid do: 7 steps that make for a "good Buddhist"
- The Buddha at Work: The Six Perfections of Highly Effective People
- The Balloon Boy Story: Suffering Exemplified
- The Buddha at Work: Right Speech in the Movie Business
- Thich Nhat Hanh Day 2: Nourish Obama and Eat Mindfully
- Obama, The Dalai Lama, and The GOP: Are Republicans the Defenders of Tibet and Human Rights?
- Propaganda flashback - The US Government wants YOU to conserve
- What's Your Story?
- Would Sid own a gun?
- The Buddha at Work - "To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
- Podcast: "Composting Desire" with Ethan Nichtern
- Podcast: Interview with Darren Littlejohn
- iPhone as Dharma Teacher
- IDP Radio - Meditation and Consumption
- No Impact Day 1 : Consumption
- Hallucinogens, Psychology and Mysticism
- No Impact Day 4: Food!
- Peace Peace
- The Speech Obama Should Give About Health Insurance Reform
- The Buddha at Work - Notes from Mali on Practice
- Tiger Woods, Buddhism, The Sermon on the Mount, Basic Goodness, and Compassion: "Judge not, that ye be not judged."
- Stop Wasting Time and Start Meditating
- The Monkey and The Box
- The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom (movie review)
- Would Sid resolve to lose weight for the new year?
- "Abandon what is unwholesome...!" Sharon Salzberg at IDP
- On Staying Motivated
- What the Buddha Taught: SuttaCentral
- A History of Mindfulness
- Skinned alive
- In Search of Lost Time: Attending to Distraction and the Meaning of Mindful
- The jury-rigged, symphonic human brain
- The Practice of Finding Space
- There's a Whole Lot of Earwax on These Fingers
- Week 1: Hardcore Dharma is a Go
- Thank you internet
- Dharma Poetry: Mark Strand
- Hardcore Dharma Week 7: Sharon Salzberg Rocks the House!
- Buddha of the Month
- Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings July 13 & Buddha of the Week
- Dharma Art: Michelle Provenzano's "The 3 Yanas"
- Reproducing the status quo: "The Disadvantages of an Elite Education"
- that "heat of the moment" moment, and other thoughts on anger
- East Coast vs. West Coast
- Discuss the Integral Activism Meeting before it happens. Right here. Right now.
- Integral Activism - the "I", the "you and I", and the "we"
- Casual Sex on the Buddhist Path?
- Wants and Needs, Part II
- Tuesday linkage
- What I Read This Weekend
- More boredom, please!
- Plastic Bags in Trees, a guest post by Melanie Einzig
- I Contain Multitudes: Part II
- New York in Black & White
- The Bag Monster Says...
- Happy first day of summer!
- Happy Juneteenth, everyone
- Krugman vs. Obama - Paul's Got Brass Knuckles
- Five Thoughts To Combat A Sour Mood on Sunday Night
- Kid Questions
- Political Musings and an Irish Guy Named Pat
- Tortilla voyeur: my adventures in the Wertheim Study
- Can you Levitate?
- Grocery Stores and the GOP
- Andrew Sullivan on Blogging
- 1491
- Cultivating Courage
- Back to the Isolation Tank?
- Back to the Sack: Does banning plastic bags lose American jobs?
- Hardcore Dharma: The Birth of the Cool
- Soothing Videos for Ya'll
- A Truly Black Friday
- Assessing the Real New Year
- Dada: absurd genius, or Buddhist kryptonite?
- Movie Review (and Book Recommendation): The Wackness and The Cure for Grief
- Once More Unto the Breach, Dear...Teeth...
- Truth and Reality
- Politrix in Brooklyn: my adventures with the New Kings Democrats
- New Integral Activism Memo
- We're now on Twitter
- Reality TV: Still Annoying
- Podcast: "Crushed By Love" with Purna Steinitz Pt.2
- A month of Responsible Consumption practice
- Holy Moses!
- Integral Activism Sunday - pix!
- Hardcore Dharma: The 12 Nidanas
- Obama and immigration reform
- Empty Words on Arlen Specter
- Dharma in Poetry
- Picking on Shambhala Sun
- Understanding The Eye
- You Are George Bush
- Now on your iPhone...Augmented Reality!
- This Week on the I.D. Project Podcast: Dr. Miles Neale Pt. 2
- The Buddhist and the Banker: A Love Story
- Keep Your Enemies Close, and Your Near Enemies Closer
- Heard in One City
- Pema Chodron Gets Props on the Front Page of NYTimes.com
- Photography: Meditation Action Direct (Sort Of)
- Desiring Desire
- Escalators and Perforation: The Dharma of Nicholson Baker
- Eight years later and a whole new set of hopes
- Hardcore Dharma Says it With Suttas
- Hat's off, Sen. Schneiderman
- Buddha of the Week!
- Emptiness and Wallace Stevens
- This is Unbelievable
- "Protect the Earth" by, er, trashing it
- Whatâs wrong with just recycling?
- Wrathful Compassion or Act of Aggression?
- Buddhism and Battlestar
- Asking ourselves questions
- Planet Slayer and The Lorax
- REPOST: Ponytail "Beg Waves"
- Impermanence in Action: Economy Edition
- The Wheels on the Bus Go...Oh, Hell No
- Weekly Dedication of Merit: Steven Strogatz
- Research Reveals Key to Good Leadership
