This piece is part of an on-going blog series called Plurality 2.0 (watch video here). Full schedule of guest authors throughout April and May is available here. Rev. Jim Burklo is Associate Dean of Religious Life at University of Southern California. He is also the author of Birdlike and Barnless: Meditations, Prayers and Songs for [...]
Progressive
Over four years ago, I wrote a post called “Liberal songwriting.” I had just spent a week at family camp with a progressive mainline PC(USA) church and noticed that the types of “camp songs” that they liked really did not square up with their theology – and I wondered aloud about where all of the [...]
An Episcopal friend of mine recently received a call to a position that included doing some youth ministry, something that he’s never done before. He wrote asking for a recommendation of some youth ministry books that a more progressive person might be able enjoy reading and find fruitful. Some of these I’ve read, and some [...]
I’ve always heard about David James Duncan’s writings. First it was “The Brothers K”, which I initially thought was someone’s nickname for “The Brothers Karamazov” – I thought they were just trying to be cute, until I realized that it was one of Duncan’s novels. Then a Whitworth writing professor told me I really should [...]
