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A Letter In Support of Same-Gender Marriage From Bishop Strickland of the Southeastern Synod to the Supreme Court Justices I receive Bishop Kevin Strickland’s letter to the U.S.

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What Happened at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly? Reflections on Leadership, Justice, and Local Church Life This morning (Sunday), as I walked into Good Shepherd before worship, the kitchen was already bustling.

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ELCA Assembly Speaks Against Genocide In Palestine Recognizes Palestine as a sovereign state and supports Palestinian membership in the UN

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A Personal Update From Lutheran Confessions Making room for justice

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Breaking Up With Protestant Theology I was trained in seminary under a particular, severe form of Protestant theology, one that was portrayed as the true, confessional, radical Lutheranism.

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Solo Pastoring In A Mutual Aid Church For 14 years, I have, for the most part, solo pastored a pastor-sized congregationβ€”which is now the most common kind of congregation in the United States.

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Lutheran Confessions chat Join now in the Substack app

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Evangelism For Progressives Why I would love for my congregation to focus on evangelism and grow our worship

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Talking about the Interregnum with Gramsci on the 4th of July I was out at a rustic retreat center deep in a holler of Arkansas with my spiritual friend, sitting on a deck above a small pond, what she fondly describes as the center of the universe.

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Should Christians Support Bombing Iran? A Just War Reckoning in the Trump Era The first thing to attend to is that the enemy of your enemy is not your friend… at least not necessarily.

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Dickson Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas

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A Simple Case For the Trinity And the more radical case that we are all Gods

A Simple Case For the Trinity
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I think we should have a vote to ban Southern Baptists.

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Being in the United States without documentation is not a crime.

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Well this is just Trump supporters

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The Holy Spirit Is Not a Function: Undoing the Church at Pentecost Although the tug and pull of social action, of writing things of consequence, has driven much of what I write for this blog, I really do love me some good theology.

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It’s a cult.

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β€œI Was a Stranger, and You Banned Me”: A Pastoral Response to Trump’s New Travel Proclamation Today, President Trump signed a new executive order expanding the United States travel ban to 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,...

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On Non-Acquiescence To Hyper-Normalized Authoritarianism We begin with the story of Elijah.

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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Oak Flat Religious Freedoms Plea Chi’chil BiΕ‚dagoteel

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Oak Flat Religious Freedoms Plea
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Pride and Pastoring in a Pullback Era Field Notes from Embedded Solidarity

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How We Shelter At Good Shepherd Lutheran Church A few years ago, while I was helping start a refugee resettlement agency in Northwest Arkansas, I often heard a pointed question from critics online and in person: β€œWhy not help homeless people here a...

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Why That "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" Is Morally F*cked Up... And How To Respond In the quiet hours of early Sunday morning (1 a.m., to be exact) House leadership advanced the so-called β€œOne Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The name is slick.

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The Peasants’ Reformation: Unlearning "Lutheran" History On the 500th Anniversary of the German Peasants' War

The Peasants’ Reformation: Unlearning "Lutheran" History
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Pope Leo XIV: A Progressive Christian’s Reflection on the Election of Robert Prevost As a progressive Christian, I’ve been watching the election of Robert Prevost as the new pope with a mix of curiosity and caution.

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Thank you!

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A Guidebook to Progressive Church: Chapter Five Among the Progressives

A Guidebook to Progressive Church: Chapter Five
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Clint Schneckloth on Why Progressive Churches Matter Podcast Episode Β· Future Christian Β· 04/29/2025 Β· 53m

Progressive Christianity needs more than good politics. It needs worship, leadership, and theological grounding.

Hear why from @schnekloth.bsky.social

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Why I No Longer Think of the Cross as a Transaction (And Why Ransom Means Freedom, Not Payment) What was meant by speaking of the death of Jesus as a 'ransom?"

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