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- December 2011 (1)
- November 2011 (1)
- 02: Do this in remembrance of me (3)
- October 2011 (1)
- 11: Free books for the eating (12)
- June 2011 (1)
- May 2011 (1)
- 08: Missional postmortem: Conclusions (15)
- April 2011 (1)
- March 2011 (3)
- February 2011 (3)
- January 2011 (4)
- December 2010 (6)
- 31: Top 10 Least Popular Posts of 2010 (6)
- 30: Missional Postmortem: Complicating factors and personal reflections (14)
- 22: Missional Postmortem: Intentionally unorthodox decisions that may have contributed to morbidity (31)
- 21: Missional Postmortem: Ikon Timeline (28)
- 06: So when does the fruitfulness begin? (33)
- 01: Andre and I share the same prayer beads (1)
- November 2010 (5)
- 29: Does it entertain? Does it instruct? Yes. Yes it does. (5)
- 23: Cultural reality check: child evangelism as seen through the lens of Harpers Magazine (8)
- 21: I have come that they may kick ass, and kick ass to the full (17)
- 08: Meet Charlie: from homeless to helping others (6)
- 05: This is my burrito, broken for you (6)
- October 2010 (8)
- 28: Announcing the 2010 Micah Film Festival (0)
- 26: Cultural reality check: Sara Bareilles (21)
- 26: A prayer chain of faith, hope, and love (2)
- 22: Taking the leap into non-professional ministry (22)
- 11: 3 questions about Jesus: JR Woodward (6)
- 05: New missional opportunities in theological education (0)
- 04: James Smith roughs up Brett McCracken a bit for lacking a theology of culture (5)
- 04: 3 Questions about Jesus: Sean Campbell (8)
- September 2010 (7)
- 28: Why do homeless people piss us off? (6)
- 22: Criminalizing the mentally ill (10)
- 14: How important are interfaith efforts today? (6)
- 13: 3 questions about Jesus: Bryan Dormaier (2)
- 12: The Parable of the Hungry Girl (39)
- 11: He who is the Accepting of repentance (7)
- 06: 3 Questions about Jesus: Daniel So (0)
- August 2010 (7)
- 30: 3 Questions about Jesus: Jason Evans (4)
- 23: 3 Questions about Jesus: Steve Burnhope (0)
- 18: A reader critiques my portrayal of race and violence (21)
- 17: Should Christians be the most powerful people in the world? (11)
- 16: 3 Questions About Jesus: Amy Rozko (0)
- 09: 3 Questions About Jesus: JR Rozko (2)
- 02: 3 Questions About Jesus: Ben Sternke (13)
- July 2010 (10)
- 26: 3 Questions About Jesus: Jason Clark (0)
- 23: Coincidence or God? Lost In-Laws (15)
- 22: Coincidence or God? Drunk Uncle (8)
- 21: Coincidence or God? Car Keys (28)
- 19: 3 Questions About Jesus: Cari Jenkins (3)
- 12: 3 Questions About Jesus: Jesse Schroeder (5)
- 08: Men Are In Charge Because the Bible Says So (66)
- 06: Bonding vs Bridging Communities: Fear & Retribution in Fundamentalism (37)
- 05: 3 Questions About Jesus: Jason Coker (23)
- 02: Resolved, To Believe The Best About Other Believers (2)
- June 2010 (12)
- 29: Resolved, To Embrace Christ as the Embodiment of Healing and Hope (4)
- 28: Resolved, Not To Think Too Rigorously About Jesus (4)
- 28: Resolved, To Not Think Wrongly About Jesus (But To Speak Uncharitably About Our Enemies) (12)
- 27: Resolved, Not To Wear a Bikini (11)
- 24: Conference Blogging From Resolved This Weekend (18)
- 23: On Jack White, Worship, and the Marketplace of Art & Spirit (13)
- 22: My Interview With Anne Jackson (0)
- 12: Pick My Summer Classes – Update #2 (3)
- 04: Jesus and The Art of Pruning Tomatoes (8)
- 02: Chad Estes on the Flotilla Debacle in Middle East (3)
- 02: Al And Tipper Gore And The Advent of Term Marriage (15)
- 01: From Seeker Sensitive to Seeker Generating (7)
- May 2010 (5)
- April 2010 (26)
- 30: [UPDATED] Hurry! The Membership Drive Ends At Midnight! (0)
- 30: Between Emerging & Traditional: My Interview With Jim Belcher (0)
- 30: The Parable of the Royal Invitations (0)
- 29: Only Two Days Left To Win An iPod Touch at Pastoralia.org! (1)
- 28: Love Has Many Stages (0)
- 27: What About God As The Monster? An Open Letter To Brian McLaren (24)
- 24: Ryan Yamamoto, “If You Really Knew Me” (4)
- 19: Galatians Series at Ikon Community Starts Today (0)
- 16: We’re Halfway Through Our Membership Drive, Help Us Reach Our Goal! (0)
- 14: On Spending Easter With a Porn Star: My Interview With Craig Gross (6)
- 13: A Whole New Bag of Burdensome, Self-Righteous Judgment (0)
- 13: Re-imagining Christendom (2)
- 10: The Anthropological Study of the Vineyard Movement and its Implications (0)
- 08: iPod Touch Unlocked For April Membership Drive! (2)
- 08: Communities of the Spirit: Untamed, Chapter 3 (0)
- 08: On Being Called An Anti-Semite (70)
- 07: What Does The Gospel Really Look Like? (1)
- 06: The Danger of Worship: Untamed, Chapter Two (2)
- 06: Bumper Sticker Theology: Coexist? (8)
- 06: The Best Teacher I Never Knew: Michael Spencer 1956-2010 (5)
- 05: My Bad (8)
- 04: The Tale of Two Gardeners, An Easter Parable (1)
- 03: Holy Week, Day 6 (0)
- 02: Announcing the First Ever Pastoralia Membership Drive (13)
- 01: Reading Blog: Untamed by Alan and Deb Hirsch, Chapter 1 (8)
- 01: Holy Week, Day Four (0)
- March 2010 (45)
- 31: The Prostitution of the Gospel Through Marketing (22)
- 31: April Reading Blog: Untamed by Alan and Deb Hirsch (3)
- 31: Holy Week, Day Three (0)
- 30: Holy Week, Day Two (1)
- 30: After SVS 2010: Matt Croasmun, The Cross, Eucharist, and Imitation in the Gospel of John (4)
- 29: My Interview With Jonathan Acuff For Stuff Christians Like (2)
- 29: After SVS 2010: Doug Erickson, Advice To Vineyard Theologians (4)
- 29: Holy Week, Day One (0)
- 27: Pick My Spring Seminary Classes For Me (21)
- 27: What Book Should I Blog Through in April? (2)
- 27: Schedule Changes to the After SVS Series (0)
- 25: After SVS 2010: Jon Bialecki and Jamie Wilson, Social Science Analysis of the Vineyard and a Theological Rejoinder (10)
- 24: Please Consider Helping 9-Year-Old Toph Nell In His Fight With Leukemia (1)
- 24: After SVS 2010: Steven Schenk, Examining The Contradictions Between Theology and Praxis (7)
- 23: After SVS 2010: Steve Burnhope, Penal Substitutionary Atonement and 21st Century Mission (20)
- 22: After SVS 2010: Cathy Zellmer, The Divine Perichoretic Mission of Love (12)
- 20: Help Me Decide the Future of Pastoralia (14)
- 20: My Interview With Frank Viola for From Eternity To Here (0)
- 20: Colbert Makes Glen Beck Look Stupid (16)
- 19: After SVS 2010: Naomi Forrester, Science vs Christianity, A Battle To Be Won or Lost? (8)
- 18: Rebuilding Tomorrowland: My Guest Post at Deep Church (0)
- 18: After SVS 2010: Jonathan Rutz, The Case For Creation Care as a Defining Paradigm for the Vineyard Movement (14)
- 17: After SVS 2010: Jared Boyd, Naming Injustice: Doing Theology That Does Something (7)
- 16: After SVS 2010: Ryan McAnally-Linz, The Problem of the Contested Center (4)
- 15: Monday Morning Poetry: Jerusalem by William Blake (0)
- 15: After SVS: Orion Edgar, Justice and the Kingdom of God: Atonement and New Creation (7)
- 14: Sunday Morning Meditation: God’s Greatest Works (0)
- 12: After SVS 2010: Elisa Berry: Beauty and the Practice of the Kingdom of God (9)
- 11: After SVS 2010: Jason Coker, The Begging Bowl, Toward a Kingdom Economy of Gifts, Power, and Justice (10)
- 10: After SVS 2010: Jason Clark: Consumerism, Social Imagination, & Ecclesiology (8)
- 09: After SVS 2010: Steven Hamilton, Signs & Wonders: Wisdom & the Reign of God (5)
- 08: After SVS 2010: David Kushner, Echoes in Scripture (11)
- 08: Monday Morning Poetry: Batter My Heart Three-Person’d God by John Donne (3)
- 07: Sunday Morning Meditation: Too Much Mercy? Jonah 4:1-4 (0)
- 05: Help Me Welcome Matt Self Back to the Blogophere (6)
- 05: One MIllion Arrows Encourages Christian Parents to Take Discipleship Seriously (2)
- 04: The Worker’s Wages Part 3: The Essence of Ministry (6)
- 04: Church as Screen Time and Pastor as Parasocial Personality (9)
- 04: On Getting It Right: Doctrinal Confession Gone Wrong (3)
- 03: Reading Blog: Knowing Christ Today, Chapter 8 (3)
- 03: Book: Tending To Eden by Scott Sabin (5)
- 03: New Series: Dialoging With The Society of Vineyard Scholars (9)
- 02: Top 10 February Posts (2)
- 01: Interview With Joe Boyd, Author of Between Two Kingdoms (0)
- 01: Monday Morning Poetry: A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg (0)
- February 2010 (41)
- 28: 8 Hours of Sonic Silence for Research and Writing (8)
- 28: Sunday Morning Meditation: Joel 2:13 (0)
- 27: Mark Driscoll Gets Lost in Translation (21)
- 26: Tea. Earl Grey. Hot? (29)
- 26: Reading Blog: Knowing Christ Today, Chapter 7 (7)
- 26: Fiction Friday: Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins (2)
- 24: Reading Blog: Knowing Christ Today, Chapter 6 (2)
- 24: Joe Boyd Explores Childlike Faith in Between Two Kingdoms (3)
- 23: Does It Matter If We Know Jesus? (25)
- 23: What Are Your Favorite Urban Gardening Resources? (7)
- 22: Announcing the facebook Giveaway Winners (1)
- 22: Monday Morning Poetry: I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman (3)
- 21: Sunday Morning Meditation: Nehemiah 9:16-17 (3)
- 19: Reading Blog: Knowing Christ Today, Chapter 5 (3)
- 19: Fiction Friday: My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (11)
- 18: The Evils of Drug Use in a Nazarene Bible Class (7)
- 18: Mumford and Sons on Letterman (14)
- 17: Reading Blog: Knowing Christ Today, Chapter 4 (5)
- 17: Facebook Giveaway: Award-Winning Documentary, As We Forgive (2)
- 15: Are Mega-Churches The Healthiest Churches in America? (28)
- 15: MFEO Twitter Giveaway Winner! (0)
- 15: Monday Morning Poetry: A Hymn To God The Father by John Donne (2)
- 14: Sunday Morning Meditation: Psalm 103:8-13 (4)
- 12: Reading Blog: Knowing Christ Today, Chapter 3 (9)
- 12: Fiction Friday: A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor (1)
- 11: O Father Above Us: A Modern Psalm of Thanksgiving (0)
- 10: Reading Blog: Knowing Christ Today, Chapter 2 (0)
- 09: Why The Bible Is Insufficient For Mission (37)
- 08: Post [Seminary] Secret (4)
- 08: MFEO Twitter Giveaway: Clarence Jordan & Dallas Willard (3)
- 08: Monday Morning Poetry: A Poison Tree by William Blake (3)
- 07: Sunday Morning Meditation: John Piper on Hell (23)
- 06: Flannery O’Connor On The Need For Violent Critique (8)
- 06: Weekly Round Up (5)
- 05: Reading Blog: Knowing Christ Today, Chapter 1 (7)
- 05: Fiction Friday: The Blood of the Lamb by Peter De Vries (4)
- 03: Reading Blog: Knowing Christ Today, Introduction (7)
- 03: N.T. Wright on the Myth of Adam & Eve (7)
- 03: I Will Have Mercy (2)
- 01: More Demise-of-the-Vineyard Discussion at Deep Church (7)
- 01: Monday Morning Poetry: W.H. Auden (0)
- January 2010 (40)
- 31: Sunday Morning Meditation: N.T. Wright on Hell (29)
- 30: Let The Looting of Haiti Begin (4)
- 30: The Marriage of Jesus and Jane Vella (3)
- 29: Top 10 Pastoralia Articles This Month (0)
- 29: Weekly Link Round Up (1)
- 29: Fiction Friday: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (5)
- 28: Biblical Ethics and Gay Marriage in California (50)
- 26: Everything That’s Wrong With The American Church in Two Words (4)
- 26: The Worker’s Wages Part 2: The Biblical Lens (19)
- 26: Clark Cowden Quotes Eddie Gibbs on The State of Christendom (5)
- 25: The Most Important Church Planting Book I’ve Read (Isn’t About The Church) (9)
- 24: Sunday Morning Poetry: Walt Whitman (2)
- 22: Harsh Words for Martin Luther (Words of Hope for Haiti) (4)
- 22: Fiction Friday: John Updike (1)
- 21: Real Political Reform Doesn’t Bother With Elections (5)
- 20: From L.A. To Vegas (4)
- 19: The Worker’s Wages Part 1: Framing the Discussion (21)
- 19: Vineyard Launches Justice Response (0)
- 18: MLK In America (0)
- 18: 5 Arguments Against the Use of Marketing and Media in Church (33)
- 17: Sunday Morning Poetry: George Herbert (0)
- 16: Should Missional Church Leaders Be Paid? (Prelude) (35)
- 15: Io9: Is The Book of Eli A Christian Movie? (5)
- 15: The Parable of the New Parents (1)
- 14: Pat Robertson Falls From the Ladder of Being (And So Do We) (15)
- 13: Top Ten: 2009 Pastoralia Posts (0)
- 13: Move to Pastoralia.org Complete (4)
- 12: Contours of Post-Christendom Vineyard Ministry (11)
- 11: Give Us This Day Our Daily Dread (0)
- 10: Moving To Pastoralia.org This Week (1)
- 10: The Incarnation of Irony (0)
- 10: Roger Ebert and Prophetic Memory (4)
- 08: Vineyard Churches at the Crossroads (34)
- 07: Coastline Roadtrip at Sunset (9)
- 07: Did Tony Jones Kill The Vineyard? (39)
- 06: Daily Show Lampoons Religious Superiority (4)
- 04: Did God Neuter Himself For Christmas? (5)
- 04: What We Can (un)Learn From The Apple Tablet (8)
- 03: New Prayer Series at Ikon Community (1)
- 01: Top Five Posts From 2009 That Weren't Mine (3)
- December 2009 (9)
- 22: The Myth of Selfless Giving (13)
- 16: What Are The Boundaries of Mission? (7)
- 14: Church as a Costume (8)
- 11: Congratulations, You're Postmodern (3)
- 11: A Very California Christmas (11)
- 10: Sources For Post-Christian Exploration? (5)
- 08: Eating Our Own Egos (15)
- 05: The Parable of the Little Girl and Her New Bike (0)
- 02: Will the Real Jason Coker Please Stand Up? (12)
- November 2009 (18)
- 30: Daily Advent Reading at Ikon Community (0)
- 27: Been There, Done That (2)
- 26: Announcing Progressive Advent (0)
- 25: Toward a Missional Economy, Part 6 (0)
- 24: Toward a Missional Economy, Part 5 (0)
- 23: Toward a Missional Economy, Part 4 (0)
- 20: Toward a Missional Economy, Part 3 (0)
- 19: Toward a Missional Economy, Part 2 (0)
- 18: Toward a Missional Economy, Part 1 (0)
- 16: The Challenge of Community (0)
- 13: Join Us For Thanksgiving in the Park (0)
- 10: Make Something Day, 2009 (0)
- 10: Church Told to Stop Feeding Hispanics (7)
- 09: Church Told to Stop Feeding the Poor (4)
- 08: I'm Calling B.S. On That (0)
- 06: Review of Deep Church by Jim Belcher (3)
- 05: God's Missionary Incarnation (0)
- 04: Ikon Community Formation (0)
- October 2009 (7)
- 23: The Usonian Church (0)
- 20: The Arrogant Bastard Church (25)
- 19: We Ditch Church Once And Make the News! (0)
- 19: Steve Jobs Beats Porn & Poverty (0)
- 16: Honk if You're Going to Hell (7)
- 15: Yes Virginia, there are phishing scams on Twitter (0)
- 14: Thank You Nolie (5)
- September 2009 (4)
- 17: The body of Christ, stolen for you (13)
- 15: Sociopaths Need Jesus Too (0)
- 09: Dear Preacher (17)
- 02: Todd Hunter and the Rebranding of Christianity (0)
- August 2009 (9)
- 31: Modern Ministry Confession (0)
- 29: Coffee, David Petraeus, and the end of the Empire (0)
- 28: A Parable of Four Fathers (0)
- 24: Introducing Ikon Community (0)
- 22: The scriptural bias toward chaos (0)
- 20: Birds, the Bible, and broken down cars (0)
- 19: The not-God of I35, Job, and John Piper (15)
- 17: Undergroundvineyard.org is now Jasoncoker.net (0)
- 05: Film Festival, and other busyness… (0)
- July 2009 (5)
- 15: Worship as Eucatastrophe (0)
- 11: Was John Calvin a Murderer? (0)
- 06: The Mega-Freeloader Church (0)
- 03: A Life of Gifts (0)
- 01: Unbecoming Buzz Agents For Christ (14)
- June 2009 (18)
- 29: How Eddie Gibbs Ruined My Life (14)
- 24: Announcing the Micah Film Festival (0)
- 23: The Re-emergence of Suffering as a Virtue, Part 3 (0)
- 22: The Re-emergence of Suffering as a Virtue, Part 2 (0)
- 19: The Re-emergence of Suffering as a Virtue, Part 1 (0)
- 18: Losing God in Translation (3)
- 17: Mission as Unintentional Revelation (0)
- 16: Missio Dei at the Sundance Film Festival (0)
- 12: Discipleship As Fitness (0)
- 11: Grace Takes Practice (0)
- 10: Everything is Worship (0)
- 09: Everything is Spiritual (0)
- 09: Review: Frank Viola's From Eternity to Here (0)
- 08: Nobody Wants To Go To Church Anymore (0)
- 04: Marketing the Church (4)
- 03: Consumerism in Church (0)
- 02: The Rhetoric of Discipleship (0)
- 01: A Crisis of Character (0)
- May 2009 (5)
- February 2009 (1)
